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5. Kernel-Related Projects

• An over-the-ethernet debugger stub that will allow the kernel to be debugged from GDB running on another machine.

  This stub needs its own self-contained implementation of all protocols to be used, since the GNU system will use user processes to implement all but the lowest levels, and the stub won't be able to use those processes. If a simple self-contained implementation of IP and TCP is impractical, it might be necessary to design a new, simple protocol based directly on ethernet. It's not crucial to support high speed or communicating across gateways.

  It might be possible to use the Mach ethernet driver code, but it would need some changes.

• A shared memory X11 server to run under MACH is very desirable. The machine specific parts should be kept well separated.

• An implementation of CIFS, the "Common Internet File System," for the HURD. This protocol is an offshoot of SMB.

• Support (in Linux?) for dumping the non-textual contents of an SVGA console.