Re: Please advice on applying GSoC

Hi Joe.

Thanks for the reply! I'll look over the PR Database.

Soichiro

On 2022/03/22 6:20, Joseph Mingrone wrote:
> Hello!
>
> On Mon, 2022-03-21 at 12:49, Soichiro Ueda <the.latticeheart@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi! I'm Soichiro Ueda, a university student from Japan.
>> I'm thinking of participate in GSoC. I'm interested in the idea of eBPF XDP Hooks.
>> Before submitting a proposal, I'm planning to send a patch to understand the source code of FreeBSD, and the idea.
>> But I'm wondering what tasks should I tackle. Do you have any ideas?
> We have an article about contributing to FreeBSD at
> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/ or in Japanese at
> https://docs.freebsd.org/en/articles/contributing/ .  Perhaps the most
> useful point for you would be '1.3. Work through the PR Database'.
>
> To get FreeBSD set up, the FreeBSD Handbook will also be useful.
> http://freebsd.org/handbook or
> https://docs.freebsd.org/ja/books/handbook/.
>
>> Biography
>> I'm a junior in Kyoto University. I major in Compurter Scienece.
>> I've worked for some internships as a software engineer. Now I work in a startup, developing a SaaS which automates quotation work in international logistics.
>> Talking about experiences related to this GSoC project,
>> I've developed a NIC driver from scratch for MikanOS, which is an operating system targeting x86_64 for people who learn operating system development.
>> I've implemented protocols of Ethernet, ARP, IP, ICMP for MikanOS, and I've successed to send ping requests to servers in the Internet and receive responses.
>> I've made a processor using Verilog and FPGA for practical in the university.
>> Now I learn operating systems by reimplementing MikanOS.
>> MikanOS: https://github.com/uchan-nos/mikanos
>> My work of MikanOS network: https://github.com/Saza-ku/mikanos-nic/tree/nic
> Thanks for your interest.  If you have problems getting started, please
> don't hesitate to ask more questions.
>
> Joe