• MinixWishlist

MINIX 3 Wish list

This page has two purposes:

1. To allow users to list things they would like to see
2. To allow people who want to help to find out what is desired

However, before starting a project, first check the MinixRoadmap to see if someone is working on it, and if not, post a query to the Google newsgroup to see if anyone wants to work with you.

1. This Wiki

• An improved FAQ (by going through the newsgroup archives to find common questions)
• An article on How to Write a Driver
• More documentation for developers

2. Application programs

• ACK assembler taken from ack and built properly
• Crashme
• Cscope
• Curl (see below)
• dis386, a disassembler to disassemble minix binaries
• Enlightenment
• Firefox
• A firewall (pf? other?)
• FreeBSD Stress Test Suite
• Fuzz
• GIMP
• Gnome
• Gpm
• Iotest
• Fluxbox
• Lsof
• Ltrace
• LigHTTP
• Linux test project
• Lmbench
• Mercurial VCS
• Mpg123
• Mutt
• Nasm
• Network utilities (netcat, nslookup, better ping, traceroute, etc.)
• Open Office
• OpenJDK
• Open VM Tools
• Procps

• pkgsrc (NetBSD's)

• Psmisc
• Ruby
• Security tools (Nmap, etc.)
• Sox
• Strace
• SWIG
• Synergy
• UNIXbench
• Valgrind
• VNC Client
• Xfce

2.1. Ported Application Programs

3. Libraries

• FLTK
• GTK+
• QT

4. Drivers

• Just about anything
• ACPI support for device detection (and possibly more)
• (Renewed) IOMMU drivers for AMD and Intel platforms
• AHCI support for modern disk hardware
• Driver framework to use drivers from LINUX and BSD operating systems
• Gigabit Ethernet network drivers
• NDIS wrapper to support wireless network drivers
• support for Dell's integrated ethernet
• Autodetection of network cards, so the network can be used with the live CD
• USB controller driver(s) plus driver for USB storage devices
• A pseudodriver so remote debuggers can query embedded systems

5. Ports to other Architectures

• Motorola ColdFire

• SPARC
• x86_64 (as 64bit native, not backwards compatibility using 32 bit)
• IA-64

6. Documentation

Please see DocumentationAndPackages for man-pages that are needed.

7. Broken packages

Please see DocumentationAndPackages for packages that need fixing.

8. Other Improvements

• Better upgrade method, not requiring (CD-based) reinstall or making world
• Better package manager, maybe an APT port or something similar (and note "pkgsrc" request, above)
• Increase support to include ELF executable format
• Collecting benchmarks from other systems and automating their running
• UNIX-domain sockets
• Performance tuning, including porting the BSD Pmc tools
• Stress testing the system under heavy and difficult workloads

• Enhancing portability, removing lint, and changing Makefiles to support both ACK & gcc

• 64-bit argument support in printf (can be passed as long long on GCC or u64_t on ACK)

• Threads
• Memory mapped files
• Ability to have sockets listening on localhost, in particular if no network interface is available
• FIONREAD ioctl also working for UDP sockets
• Core dumps
• Ext3 support
• Being able to load from Grub directly (without chainloader)

• Support for files > 2GB

9. Other General Items

• Links to university courses using MINIX 3
• Links to research projects using MINIX 3
• Security testing software or people to try to break the security
• Debian/Minix and/or Gentoo/Minix