GSoC 2015 Introduction - Condition Variables (CV)

[Andrei - Constantin Popescu]

Hello!

As discussed with Sebastian Huber on IRC , is there someone else
able/willing to mentor this project or should I look for a different one ?

Kind regards,
Andrei

2015-03-09 8:51 GMT+02:00 Andrei - Constantin Popescu <
popescu.andrei1991 at gmail.com>:

> Hello!
>
> I'm Andrei(Andrei - Constantin Popescu, more exactly),  a Computer Science
> graduate at Polytechnic University of Bucharest, Romania. I will begin my
> Masters' degree at Vrije University, Amsterdam this fall. During the
> undergraduate studies, I pursued a high diversity in computer science
> skills, from web development, to kernel development. I  took part in GSoC
> 2012 and GSoC 2014, both with BRL-CAD. You can find both the devlogs and my
> 2014 proposal here <http://brlcad.org/wiki/User:Popescu.andrei1991> .
> Aside of that, I've also participated with them as  a Google Code-in mentor
> for the past three years, so you can say I like open source, specially the
> freedom to scratch your own itch.
>
> I was browsing for a project and I came across RTEMS ideas page and then RTEMS
> on Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RTEMS>soon after.  I'm
> interested in Operating Systems of any kind, since they're complex software
> products on which so many other applications rely on, so I decided to have
> a look. Another factor that contributed to my decision that I would like to
> code at RTEMS for GSoC 2015 was that my background is helpful in this
> aspect. I've been a kernel developer intern for about 8 months at Freescale
> and I'm currently employed as a C++ software engineer to a company
> producting VoIP software which runs on a RT system.
>
> The project I decided on is Condition Variables
> <https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Projects/Open/Condition_Variables>,
> I have at least a general idea about how monitors and condition variables
> work and since RTEMS is a single process, multithreaded system, my
> understanding is that it's an useful/important feature. Unfortunately, the Resources
> URL is broken, but I'll be on IRC most of the time, probably asking lots
> of silly questions! I'll (try to) get RTEMS built as soon as possible.  If
> you have any suggestions, or tasks  you believe would help me better
> understand this project please tell.
>
> This project, as well as my( probably not entirely correct) understanding
> of RTEMS concepts look interesting, I'm excited to be here and can't wait
> to build RTEMS to see how it is/how it works. I'm also curious, on a high
> level, how RTEMS differs from linux kernel. I hope I'll be able to tackle
> this project and complete it succesfully  as it's my first "close
> encounter" with a purposely designed rt os!
>
> Silly question #1, could you tell me a few products that use/rely on
> RTEMS? I tried googling for it but was unsuccesful.  Thank you!
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
>
>
>
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