Re: gsoc 2011 : about virtio drivers

[Stéphanie Ouillon <stephanie@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Aggelos,

thank you for your answer and the details. I had also notices the two 
other projects you mention, so I'll keep on reading and I will surely 
ask some questions about it soon :) But I keep an eye on the virtio 
project too. I'm willing to learn as much as possible, so each project 
seems interesting!

> > I'm inexperienced in the domain of device drivers but I'm willing to 
> > learn as much as possible and I am interested in some of the projects 
> > you describe in your gsoc project list, in particular virtio drivers 
> > implementation. I have begun to get some information about it. Can 
> > you point me some links or some documentation to read about it (apart 
> > from the ones indicated in the project list) ?
>
> Unfortunately that's the only documentation I'm aware of that is 
> specific to virtio. With regard to driver writing, I can recommend 
> http://lwn.net/Kernel/LDD3/. While our APIs are completely different 
> to Linux's, the principles are similar for almost all monolithic OS 
> drivers. Especially the parts about synchronization and race 
> conditions are a must-read if you want to get into driver development.

Thank you for the information :)


Regards,

Stéphanie