Improving SMP Support for RTEMS (GSOC 2014)

[Gedare Bloom]

Pulkit,
See http://wiki.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/SMP for status about the SMP
development and what remains to be done. There is plenty to do, but
there is a lot of ongoing work also, so we need to carve out the
appropriate work that can be done for a GSoC project.

For SMP work, you should build the i386 and the arm tool chains so
that you can test development with those platforms using Qemu. I think
there is some directions buried in the rtems-devel mailing list about
how to use SMP on these targets, but you can look in the
rtems-testing.git repository at the sim-scripts to see an example of
how to run them:
sim-scripts/pc386
sim-scripts/realview_pbx_a9_qemu_smp

-Gedare

On Tue, Feb 25, 2014 at 12:46 PM, Pulkit Mittal <bhangarval at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am a 4th-year CSE BTech student and I wish to participating  the
> GSOC-2014. I liked the following ideas in the design header of 'Improvements
> to SMP support'
>
> Processor Affinity
> Global Scheduler
> SMP / ISR Locks
>
> Are any of the above Projects are available for GSOC? If they are where can
> I get more information about them?
>
>
> I have a good background in Algorithms and Multi-Processor Programming.
> However I am new to RTEMS, and I am currently in the process building RTEMS
> for SPARC/sis.  So with respect to the above projects should I build RTEMS
> for other architectures as well?
>
> Thanks,
> Pulkit Mittal
>
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