SuperCore Scheduler (GSOC 2014)

[Sebastian Huber]

On 2014-03-09 18:51, Andre Marques wrote:
>
> The problem is everything in the SMP task list seems to be already under way.
> Maybe it would be better for me to focus outside SMP for GSoC.
>
> For POSIX I could:
>
> - Continue rename() test case (including the issues I have postponed until now)
> and then make rename() POSIX conformant
> - Implement lio_listio() (the only function that seems unimplemented at
> http://www.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/POSIX_Asynchronous_IO)
> - Test POSIX FIFOS (http://www.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/POSIXFIFOs)
> - Solve some issues with newlib
> (http://www.rtems.org/wiki/index.php/POSIX_Methods_in_NewLib_RTEMS_improvements)
>
> What do you think?

Another topic might be the Newlib locking:

https://www.rtems.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1247

I added support for the openat() etc. functions in Newlib for RTEMS early this 
year:

https://sourceware.org/ml/newlib/2014/msg00000.html

Implementing these functions is suitable for a GSoC project.  These functions 
can be used to simplify the FTP server and the rtems_tarfs_load() function for 
example.

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