[Cu-wireless] wireless to-do

[David Young]

I forgot to add to this, IX. Power control for Prism radios.

Dave

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 01:55:49AM -0600, David Young wrote:
> 
> Here is an outline of development tasks for the CU-Wireless software.
> It is not in any particular order.
>  
> I.    Improve station boot image for embedded systems
> 
>       A. Pare down the station boot image
> 
>          1. Get rid of Python by re-writing all of the station bootstrap
>             scripts in C or in Bourne shell
> 
>          2. Remove all but essential files. Produce a manifest of files
>             in a "NetBSD Light."
> 
>       B. Add watchdog support
> 
> II.   Adopt standards---study and recommend to CU-Wireless an emerging
>       IETF standards concerning address auto-configuration, e.g., Zeroconf
> 
> III.  Script important development and release tasks
> 
>       A. Increase automation of ISO image production, floppy image
>          production, Soekris image production
> 
>       B. Repair and maintain the scripts that extract a development
>          environment from the CD-ROM
> 
>       C. Produce a script to produce diffs and a new-files manifest
>          by comparison against the stock NetBSD distribution. Produce a
>          script to package the diffs and new files to produce a release
>          suited to the user who will "just add NetBSD." Produce diffs
>          for /etc, produce a new-files manifest for /etc and /var, and
>          produce kernel source diffs
> 
> IV.   Install the sources into CVS
> 
>       A. Figure out what files compose the "sources." The diffs? Nah
> 
>       B. Install those files into CVS
> 
>       C. Possibly produce a private NetBSD branch
> 
> V.    Produce a bug tracker
> 
> VI.   Defend against out-of-disk conditions
> 
>       A. Turn off non-essential logs
> 
>       B. Rotate, delete, and zip logs aggressively. Possibly
>          use the new kqueue support in NetBSD to monitor file sizes
>           
> VII.  Tunnel from stations which act as gateways to a server, so
>       we can get "into" the wireless network in spite of NAT/firewalls
>       at all of the gateways
> 
> VIII. For NetBSD, program a transmissions bit-rate selector which is
>       smarter than Prism's.
> 
> -- 
> David Young             OJC Technologies
> dyoung at ojctech.com      Engineering from the Right Brain
>                         Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933
> 
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David Young             OJC Technologies
dyoung at ojctech.com      Engineering from the Right Brain
                        Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933