Development tasks

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.

Pending

Active

Development tasks/Current

Inactive

• WRT350N compatibility

Future

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

Hardware

• External sensors
• Poke around WRT54G and WRT350N

Meta

• Windows port of xinu-console tools
• Rebooter daemon

Completed

Fall 2005

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

Summer 2006

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

Fall 2006

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

Spring 2007

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

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