Development tasks

From Embedded XINU

This page catalogs all possible tasks for the Embedded XINU project. Feel free to add new tasks and change existing tasks as you see fit.

Contents 1 Pending 1.1 Active 1.2 Inactive 2 Future 2.1 Software 2.2 Hardware 2.3 Meta 3 Completed 3.1 Fall 2005 3.2 Summer 2006 3.3 Fall 2006 3.4 Spring 2007 3.5 Summer 2007

[edit] Pending

[edit] Active

• File System/Flash disk driver/TTY disk driver
• Wired network driver
• Standard library review
• EJTAG interface for debugging
• Upgrades to Testsuite (Internal/External Testing and Completion)
• Memory protection
• Resurrection of x86 port
• Network stack (ARP, ICMP, IP, UDP, TCP)

[edit] Inactive

• WRT350N compatibility
• Curses

[edit] Future

[edit] Software

• Wireless networking
• Robo-switch
• Watchdog timer
  • It seems to be there, how do we use it/where does it come from
• Timing mechanism
  • Analyze timeliness of system
• Improvements to system efficiency

[edit] Hardware

• External sensors
• Poke around WRT54G and WRT350N

[edit] Meta

• Windows port of xinu-console tools
• Rebooter daemon

[edit] Completed

[edit] Fall 2005

• Complete port of ancient-XINU (Pentium) to modern processor (PPC)

[edit] Summer 2006

• Hardware modifications for WRT54GLs
• Communicate over serial port (MIPS)
• Write loader for MIPS port

[edit] Fall 2006

• Complete port of PPC-XINU to MIPS-XINU
• Interrupt subsystem

[edit] Spring 2007

• Initial asynchronous UART driver (TTY driver)
• Initial file system (via the second TTY)

[edit] Summer 2007

• Basic Shell (port from x86)
• Improvements to the UART Driver and TTY Driver
• Code Audits
  • Including the startup process, UART Driver, TTY Driver, libxc, Interprocess Communication (now mailboxes), memory, interrupts, and other important XINU subsystems
• Hardware modifications for EJTAG port
  • Successfully wrote Flash memory via EJTAG interface