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-rw-r--r--community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn11
-rw-r--r--community/gsoc/project_ideas/smp.mdwn16
2 files changed, 21 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn
index fef26353..ba34cc9c 100644
--- a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/gnat.mdwn
@@ -11,13 +11,12 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
[[!meta title="Porting GNAT (GCC)"]]
-The GNU Ada Translator (GNAT) isn't available for the Hurd so far. There are
-also a number of other Debian packages depending on GNAT, and thus not
-buildable on the Hurd.
+An initial port of the GNU Ada Translator (GNAT) is available for the Hurd.
The goal of this project is getting GNAT fully working in Debian GNU/Hurd. It
-requires implementing some explicitly system-specific stuff in GNAT, and maybe
-fixing a few other problems. Good knowledge of Ada is a must; some Hurd
+requires implementing some explicitly system-specific stuff in GNAT (mostly in
+its runtime libraries), and for that also address a number of issues in Hurd
+and other libraries. Knowledge of Ada is a must; some Hurd
knowledge will have to be acquired while working on the project.
Designing and implementing [[language_bindings]] is a follow-up project.
@@ -25,7 +24,7 @@ Designing and implementing [[language_bindings]] is a follow-up project.
Possible mentors: [[Samuel Thibault (youpi)|samuelthibault]], [[Thomas Schwinge
(tschwinge)|tschwinge]].
-Exercise: Fix one of the problems preventing GNAT from working on the Hurd.
+Exercise: Fix one of the known issues of GNAT on the Hurd.
---
diff --git a/community/gsoc/project_ideas/smp.mdwn b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/smp.mdwn
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e17c2ccf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/community/gsoc/project_ideas/smp.mdwn
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]]
+
+[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable
+id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this
+document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or
+any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant
+Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license
+is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation
+License|/fdl]]."]]"""]]
+
+[[!meta title="SMP"]]
+
+
+# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-09-30
+
+ <braunr> i expect smp to be our next gsoc project