[GSOC] RPi BSP RTEMS

[Andre Marques]

I'm taking this conversation to the list.

On 04/23/14 01:21, Alan Cudmore wrote:
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> On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 6:09 AM, Andre Marques 
> <andre.lousa.marques at gmail.com <mailto:andre.lousa.marques at gmail.com>> 
> wrote:
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>     Hello,
>
>     I am very pleased to have the opportunity to participate in GSoC
>     with the RTEMS project!
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>
> Welcome! We are glad to have you helping RTEMS.
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>     Now, I have some questions:
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>     1. Does anyone have any recommendation on the proposal?
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> I like the proposal, but there are a couple of things that may change 
> slightly:
> 1. You may want to look into making the UART driver work in interrupt 
> driven mode, as it is currently polled.

I will have a look at it.

> 2. For the Framebuffer support, I have been talking to someone off 
> list that is making progress on implementing a framebuffer driver. We 
> may want to collaborate with this person for the framebuffer.

Certainly. I was scheduling the framebuffer work for July, should that 
be re-scheduled?

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>     2. Is there any interesting documentation or code you think I
>     should be looking at right now? For the past month I have been
>     studying the RPi BSP code and the RPi architecture for the emmc
>     driver that I am doing for my final project at the university.
>
> From what I can see, you are off to a very good start!
>
>     3. There is no wiki page for the Raspberry Pi BSP (at least I have
>     not found any yet). May I create one using the Open Project
>     template and link it in the Open Projects page under the BSP section?
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>
> I did not create one, so please do.
>
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>     4. I will create a dedicated development blog for the project very
>     soon. How frequently should it be updated until may 19?
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>     5. How should the communication happen? Also I am not sure if the
>     Amar Takhar and Muhammad Adnan e-mails are the correct ones.
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>     I will also be setting a github repository for this, and I am also
>     looking to get my own RPi and some peripherals (I have one at the
>     university right now).
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> I have been setting up my Pi for RTEMS development again. I recently 
> built u-boot and I am going to try to get it to boot RTEMS images from 
> a TFTP server. This may help speed up development.
>
> I am also trying out a FT2232H MiniMod evaluation board that is 
> supposed to work with the Raspberry Pi JTAG interface and the OpenOCD 
> project. It also serves as the USB uart connector. I have it all wired 
> up and I hope to try getting it to talk to OpenOCD soon. If I get it 
> working, I will document everything. The FT2232H Minimod board was $20 
> USD.
>

Nice. Looking forward to that, as I still need to look at the debugging 
part of the development.

Meanwhile I have set up a development blog and a google calendar for the 
project:

http://asuolgsoc2014.wordpress.com/

https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=mo5guprvls0ip24rnrjio4ogks%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Lisbon

I will try to come up with more news during the weekend.

> Alan
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>
>     Thank you,
>     André Marques.
>
>

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