Benchmark Apps for RTEMS

[Dhananjay Balan]

Hi,
I would like to join in for the waf porting also the rtems
gdb extensions (Which I am intending to apply as a SoC project). I am
looking at the example waf script Chris wrote. May we can all do this
together?


On 21 April 2013 07:59, Rempel, Cynthia <cynt6007 at vandals.uidaho.edu> wrote:

> >________________________________________
> >From: Chris Johns [chrisj at rtems.org]
> >Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 8:50 PM
> >To: Gedare Bloom
> >Cc: Rempel, Cynthia; rtems-devel at rtems.org
> >Subject: Re: Benchmark Apps for RTEMS
> >
> >Gedare Bloom wrote:
> >> On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Rempel, Cynthia
> >> <cynt6007 at vandals.uidaho.edu>  wrote:
> >>>> ________________________________________
> >>>
> >>> My understanding is we have been trying for months to get examples-v2
> to be Waf-based, and because of the header problems, we have been
> unsuccessful so far.  Waf is a step up in complexity over a standard
> Makefile; if we go that route, we need the examples-v2 with a Waf build
> system publicly available as a reference first...
> >>>
> >> I don't know about the effort to port examples-v2 personally, so I
> >> don't know what complications may exist. If the installed headers are
> >> holding it up, and also would hold up any Waf-based kit
> >> infrastructure, then the dependency and risk needs to be addressed.
> >> But I would want to hear more detail about the problem before calling
> >> it a blocker.
> >
> >The only block on getting this done is the need for me to eat and sleep ;)
> >
> >Someone just has to do the work. All we need is someone to step forward.
> >I will help support them. Anyone ?
> Thanks! The patch is located at:
> http://www.rtems.org/ftp/pub/rtems/people/chrisj/examples-v2-waf.diff
> I haven't tried it, but if the patched examples-v2-waf makes executables,
> it might be feasible to port simple applications using this method...
> >>
> >>> Only a select few RTEMS developers know how to use Waf and we don't
> want this to be an elitist open-source project.  There needs to be a
> publically available tutorial for how to maintain a Waf-based build-system
> (I think its inadvisable that only a few people should have keys to the
> build-system kingdom)...
> >>>
> >> I don't have personal experience with Waf other than using it a couple
> >> of times. I don't see Waf as an elitist project, but actually I think
> >> it may be much more accessible than Make and auto* approaches. Waf has
> >> quite good documentation about the Waf system and about how to build
> >> custom build systems if we need such flexibility.
> >>
> >I agree. I have also provided an example tarball in my ftp area with
> >python code to hook to an installed RTEMS. If there are issues with that
> >code please let me know.
> http://www.rtems.org/ftp/pub/rtems/people/chrisj/rtems-waf/ looks
> promising, I'll give it a try next weekend!
>
> >>> I will go along with doing a Waf-based build system, I would like to
> hear your refutations, but I think it's inadvisable to do so until the
> above issues are addressed.
>
> >It is different to make and others and knowing Python helps. You need to
> >invest a small amount of time in doing some examples and reading the waf
> >book. If there is an interest I can run a Google Hangout and we can
> >discuss using waf with RTEMS and how it works. This can be streamed to
> >the RTEMS You Tube channel.
> I'll be probably work helping with on porting rtems-testing to python, for
> a few weekends, to learn more about both...
> Thanks for showing us this!
>
> >
> >Chris
>
>
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Regards,
Dhananjay M Balan,
Department Of Computer Science,
College Of Engineering, Trivandrum.
http://cet.ac.in
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