Ahoy Everyone,
I'm sorry I couldn't update my status on the contract. I went radio-silence
for a while, got caught up in the aftermath of an armed robbery at my
place, and a lot of other things, but I am extremely sorry to keep everyone
waiting on this.
While we were discussing the possibility of two contracts going on at once
(since some other contract was already in pipeline) and the arrangement for
funds, I applied for Google Summer of Code, assuming there were pretty low
chances of getting this through, and this would be my last chance to
participate in the GSoC program.
I'm working with FreeBSD, writing a user-space device for Xen Grant Tables.
I was writing a progress update blog
<http://akshayjaggi.me/blog/gsoc-freebsd-xen-progress-report/>, and was
very much on time, but was thrown off-track because of some incidents that
happened.
I had planned on starting work mid-July onwards, but for now it is on an
indefinite hold.
Answering Jerome's concerns:
On 29 June 2016 at 13:56, Jessica Hamilton <jessica.l.hamilton@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On 29 June 2016 at 09:47, Jérôme Duval <jerome.duval@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I know it's a bit late, but I'd like the USB 3 contract to be
reconsidered or suspended.
Let me explain: First I investigated this week the XHCI driver
problems I met on a target controller, the processing of completed
transfer events isn't implemented yet. Investing some more time, an
improvement patch could be delivered before the end of the week.
Then after looking again at the contract technical proposal, I'm not
convinced this is what Haiku needs, ie the lack of specific goals to
achieve, the general wording. Sure there are tons of things missing or
to be fixed, but to me this isn't a good use of our funds (and
mentoring time in the case of Alexander).
In my opinion, robust USB3 support on Haiku does require more work than
Unless this fixes USB3 support for most of our users, we still need to
get functional USB3 support out the door. Perhaps the contract could
do with some revisions, if you have some ideas of what should be in
there :-)