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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 4.0pt'><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org [mailto:kernelnewbies-bounces@kernelnewbies.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Facundo Viale<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 26, 2011 11:19 AM<br><b>To:</b> kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org<br><b>Subject:</b> I need suggestions for a practical work related with KernelDevelopment<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Hi! I'm new here and i what to introduce myself i'm teacher in a University in the course Operation Systems. During the course the students learn some Operatyng Systems concepts, specially everything relating to the Kernel. As a practice task, they also have to use C to make a program with some Kernel functionalities. This year this task consists on programming a File System (I chose FAT32 since I thought it was the easiest one to implement) using FUSE and simulating a Hard Disk and a RAID behavior.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Since I'm not a Kernel expert I'm looking for some advice and ideas. The aim of the practice task I'm creating is to help the students make a program that simulates the behavior and functionalities of a Kernel (such as a File System, Memory Administrator, Planner, etc.), but at the same I would like those programs to really interact with the Kernel, being not only ideal simulation cases (like FUSE). But, as I said, I don't know that much to have a good idea of what can I use to make the most from the Kernel in the task.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>I could really use some ideas!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>Some of the things I have in mind:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050;background:white'>- Use netlinks<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#500050;background:white'>- Build a kernel module <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>- I'm also interested in the /dev/mem<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";background:white'>ĄThanks a lot in advance! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;background:white'>Another thought would be to have them do some real kernel work.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;background:white'>Take a look at : </span><a href="http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors">http://kernelnewbies.org/KernelJanitors</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Some of their code might then actually make it into the real kernel sources maintained at kernel.org. I would think being able to say that some of their code they wrote as students was accepted for inclusion in the real kernel would look a lot better on a resume to future prospective employers than being saying they did yet another implementation of FAT32.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'>Jeff Haran</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;background:white'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><font face="monospace"></font></body></html>