Add a project idea for locking the FireWire driver that might be

suitable for the right SoC student.

Submitted by: simokawa

en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml

@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Ideas//EN"
 <ideas>
   <cvs:keywords xmlns:cvs="http://www.FreeBSD.org/XML/CVS" version="1.0">
     <cvs:keyword name="freebsd">
-      $FreeBSD: www/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml,v 1.2 2007/03/10 04:31:46 murray Exp $
+      $FreeBSD: www/en/projects/ideas/ideas.xml,v 1.3 2007/03/10 05:06:40 murray Exp $
     </cvs:keyword>
   </cvs:keywords>
 
@@ -608,6 +608,31 @@ be used without kernel symbols to analyze the failure mode.</p>
       </desc>
     </idea>
 
+    <idea id="firewire-locking" class="soc">
+      <title>Locking the FireWire device driver</title>
+
+      <desc><p><strong>Technical contact</strong>: <a href="mailto:simokawa@FreeBSD.ORG">Hidetoshi Shimokawa</a></p>
+
+<p>The IEEE1394 (a.k.a. FireWire) device driver in FreeBSD is
+still under the Giant lock. The FireWire driver consists of
+several parts (fwohci, firewire, sbp, fwe and fwip) and
+they all need to be locked.</p>
+
+<p><strong>Goals</strong>:</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Protect the driver by SMP locks and remove the Giant lock
+     from the driver.</li>
+</ul>
+
+<p><strong>Requirements</strong>:</p>
+<ul>
+  <li>Knowledge of kernel programming.</li>
+  <li>Knowledge of device drivers.</li>
+  <li>Knowledge of SMP locking.</li>
+</ul>
+
+      </desc>
+    </idea>
   </category>
 
   <category>