About GSOC 2016

[Олег Брежнев]

Hello everyone,
        My name is Oleg Brezhnev, i am 3rd course student of Software
Engineering in Penza State   University, Russia. It would be very cool
to get some driver programming experience, since recently i got a work,
where driver programming skills will be really useful. 
So i want to implement the AHCI SATA Storage Driver or anything related
to drivers. 
But the problem is i do not have any experience in driver devleopment
besides one chapter of  a small book about NT-drivers, i've bought
today, so i can not estimate amount of work properly. 
I have some experience of user-space C programming, i've wrote several
application like user control app and device manager for my company's
products.
My question is: is it ok to apply on a GSOC with proposal like this
considering this circumstances? I ready to work really hard to learn
all i need during my work and complete the task. 
Sincerely yours, 
Oleg Brezhnev

[Aleksey Bragin]

Hello Oleg,
I know how to solve your issue. If you really want to learn driver
development, and you're self-motivated, then the solution is to watch
two series of lectures. First series are my operating systems lecture,
which gives an overview about how operating systems are built. And
second is the Windows Kernel-mode Development lectures by Aleksey
Kostyushko, generously made available on a video recording too. THose
will be the most relevant to you.
You can find links to them at the following page:
http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Study
Regards,
Aleksey Bragin
On 09.03.2016 11:23, Олег Брежнев wrote:
>   Hello everyone,
>         My name is Oleg Brezhnev, i am 3rd course student of Software
>  Engineering in Penza State   University, Russia. It would be very cool
>  to get some driver programming experience, since recently i got a work,
>  where driver programming skills will be really useful.
>  So i want to implement the AHCI SATA Storage Driver or anything related
>  to drivers.
>  But the problem is i do not have any experience in driver devleopment
>  besides one chapter of  a small book about NT-drivers, i've bought
>  today, so i can not estimate amount of work properly.
>  I have some experience of user-space C programming, i've wrote several
>  application like user control app and device manager for my company's
>  products.
>  My question is: is it ok to apply on a GSOC with proposal like this
>  considering this circumstances? I ready to work really hard to learn
>  all i need during my work and complete the task.
>  Sincerely yours,
>  Oleg Brezhnev
>

[Олег Брежнев]

Wow, thank you, i will certainly watch them, since my university' OS
course seems to be a little incomplete :)
В Ср, 09/03/2016 в 11:47 +0300, Aleksey Bragin пишет:
>   Hello Oleg,
>  I know how to solve your issue. If you really want to learn driver 
>  development, and you're self-motivated, then the solution is to
>  watch 
>  two series of lectures. First series are my operating systems
>  lecture, 
>  which gives an overview about how operating systems are built. And 
>  second is the Windows Kernel-mode Development lectures by Aleksey 
>  Kostyushko, generously made available on a video recording too.
>  THose 
>  will be the most relevant to you.
>  You can find links to them at the following page:
>  http://www.reactos.org/wiki/Study
>  Regards,
>  Aleksey Bragin
>  On 09.03.2016 11:23, Олег Брежнев wrote:
> >  Hello everyone,
> >         My name is Oleg Brezhnev, i am 3rd course student of Software
> >  Engineering in Penza State   University, Russia. It would be very
> >  cool
> >  to get some driver programming experience, since recently i got a
> >  work,
> >  where driver programming skills will be really useful.
> >  So i want to implement the AHCI SATA Storage Driver or anything
> >  related
> >  to drivers.
> >  But the problem is i do not have any experience in driver
> >  devleopment
> >  besides one chapter of  a small book about NT-drivers, i've bought
> >  today, so i can not estimate amount of work properly.
> >  I have some experience of user-space C programming, i've wrote
> >  several
> >  application like user control app and device manager for my
> >  company's
> >  products.
> >  My question is: is it ok to apply on a GSOC with proposal like this
> >  considering this circumstances? I ready to work really hard to
> >  learn
> >  all i need during my work and complete the task.
> >  Sincerely yours,
> >  Oleg Brezhnev
> >   
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