Re: [edk2-devel] GSOC 2021 EXT4 driver Project

["Michael D Kinney" <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>]

Hi Michael,

Thanks for the feedback.

#4 should be clarified as adding a new feature package called Ext4Pkg.  Not adding EXT4 to the existing AdvancedFeaturePkg.

Mike 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Kubacki <mikuback@linux.microsoft.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 11:23 AM
> To: devel@edk2.groups.io; leif@nuviainc.com; Kinney, Michael D <michael.d.kinney@intel.com>
> Cc: pedro.falcato@gmail.com
> Subject: Re: [edk2-devel] GSOC 2021 EXT4 driver Project
> 
> I had done some of the early work in moving content to
> edk2-platforms/Features. Just wanted to add my support for maintaining
> this as a vendor neutral feature there.
> 
> #4 in the options list is not really what AdvancedFeaturePkg intended
> for, there's more details here -
> https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/tree/master/Features/Intel#AdvancedFeaturePkg.
> 
> - Michael
> 
> On 6/10/2021 1:54 PM, Leif Lindholm wrote:
> > edk2-platforms/Features/Ext4Pkg sounds good to me too.
> >
> > /
> >      Leif
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 17:38:17 +0000, Michael D Kinney wrote:
> >> Hi Pedro,
> >>
> >> After thinking about this, I think I would prefer Option (4).
> >>
> >> The proposed landing zone would be a new Ext4Pkg in the edk2-platforms repository in the Features directory.
> >>
> >> edk2-platforms/Features/Intel/Ext4Pkg
> >>
> >> All the features in that directory and not specific to Intel.  There are other email discussions about moving some of
> that content up a level, so an alternative path would be:
> >>
> >>                edk2-platforms/Features/Ext4Pkg
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Mike
> >>
> >>
> >> From: devel@edk2.groups.io <devel@edk2.groups.io> On Behalf Of Pedro Falcato
> >> Sent: Monday, May 24, 2021 12:27 PM
> >> To: devel@edk2.groups.io
> >> Subject: [edk2-devel] GSOC 2021 EXT4 driver Project
> >>
> >> Hi everyone,
> >>
> >> Me and my project have been selected for GSoC this year, under Michael Kinney and bret. Thank you for the opportunity
> to collaborate with you and improve Tianocore!
> >> If anyone has any questions, please fire away :)
> >> How do I get started? I'd like to find some easier tasks as to start trying out patch submission and generally
> programming in a firmware environment.
> >> Also, I've been talking with my mentors and a relevant question to ask the mailing list is: Where should we put the
> EXT4 driver?
> >> Michael said there are other filesystems in MdeModulePkg, but it might be getting too big and proposed the following
> options:
> >>
> >> 1) EXT4 in new package in edk2 repo as a peer to FatPkg.
> >> 2) EXT4 in edk2 repo in MdeModulePkg
> >> 3) EXT4 in edk2-platforms advanced feature package.
> >> 4) EXT4 in edk2 advanced feature package
> >>
> >> As someone that's still learning how to navigate the project's tree(s), this is a bit over my head and so I'd like your
> opinion on the matter.
> >> Also, I would love if someone could point me to some good reading material and/or examples of the package/build system,
> as I couldn't find documentation on those
> >> and my previous experiment with Tianocore involved looking at FatPkg and mindlessly copying what it was doing.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Pedro
> >>
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