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

["Michael Kubacki" <mikuback@linux.microsoft.com>]

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.
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> On Thu, Jun 10, 2021 at 17:38:17 +0000, Michael D Kinney wrote:
>> Hi Pedro,
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>> After thinking about this, I think I would prefer Option (4).
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>> The proposed landing zone would be a new Ext4Pkg in the edk2-platforms repository in the Features directory.
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>> edk2-platforms/Features/Intel/Ext4Pkg
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>> 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:
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>>                edk2-platforms/Features/Ext4Pkg
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>> Best regards,
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>> Mike
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>> 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
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>> Hi everyone,
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>> 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:
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>> 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
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>> 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.
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>> Thanks,
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>> Pedro
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