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Hi,
I am a third year computer engineering student.i need ideas for my final year project
I have good knowledge of c,done 386 architecture & programming in detail, also done D.O.S device drivers.i want to do my project in CORE SYSTEMS / KERNEL PROGRAMMING.
Please Help Me with some ideas.
asarch
04-21-2005, 02:44 PM
What about hacking the Sony's ATRAC audio compression format? So everybody could do something like this:
To encode:
[$] atracenc --3plus file.wav file.omg
To decode:
[$] atrac123 file.omg
psych-major
04-21-2005, 02:54 PM
drivers for the new .11G wireles products!
Icarus
04-21-2005, 03:22 PM
A BitKeeper replacement! :D
ph34r
04-21-2005, 03:43 PM
A driver for some sort of hardware you like...
drummerboy195
04-21-2005, 03:50 PM
A free Conexant modem driver that doesn't hang my system when I try to install it...
:D
azambuja
04-21-2005, 05:21 PM
How fast before this turns into a wishlist?
bwkaz
04-21-2005, 06:32 PM
Too late... :D
My idea: an open-source 3D nVidia driver. (Actually, that may not even be possible -- specs are impossible to come by, you'd have to reverse engineer their own drivers. But it sure would be nice. ;))
asarch
04-21-2005, 06:43 PM
...and also add the ability to the Fedora Core project to use the Reiserfs and also a little bit tunning of this project so it can be a little bit faster. :o
soulestream
04-21-2005, 07:37 PM
, you'd have to reverse engineer their own drivers. But it sure would be nice.
linus would be pissed
soule
Come on guys, give him an idea of something possible! :)
soulestream
04-21-2005, 08:46 PM
Come on guys, give him an idea of something possible!
NTFS write support :D
soule
You want something possible? Fix the W98 kernel :D
psych-major
04-22-2005, 10:50 AM
Originally posted by asarch
...and also add the ability to the Fedora Core project to use the Reiserfs and also a little bit tunning of this project so it can be a little bit faster. :o
How about adding the ability for Fedora to install and run at all on any of my three machines...
Wait, that patch has already been written, it's called Slackware...:rolleyes:
bwkaz
04-22-2005, 06:25 PM
Originally posted by soulestream
linus would be pissed Err, why?
I am fairly sure that reverse engineering is legal (at least, in the U.S.). Most software EULAs prohibit it, though (and actually, after looking at the LICENSE file inside the nVidia drivers, I must say that they prohibit it also). If you never agreed to the EULA though...
But it'd be safer to work right from the hardware and the open-source portion of the driver. Prod the hardware in various ways until you figure out what does what -- I believe that that would be legal. But IANAL, either.
I don't see what Linus would have against any of this -- another fully-open-source driver to add to the kernel (with full DRI/DRM support) surely wouldn't make him angry. Even if he had stock in nVidia, an open-source driver could not decrease sales. (I'm guessing it would have no noticeable effect, but it surely won't decrease them.)
error27
04-23-2005, 08:53 PM
Drivers are not that interesting for learning.
I'm really interested in test research. How to test
for bugs.
This page is interesting for me.
http://ltp.sourceforge.net/coverage/coverage.php
You could try test every line of code in a filesystem.
Hint: reiserf, and jfs are more interesting if you want to find bugs.