GSoC 2015 Introduction - Condition Variables (CV)

[Andrei - Constantin Popescu]

Hello!

As stated here <https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/GSoC/GettingStarted> I have
installed RSB, rtems and compiled the modified Hello, world ! test

The  patch is attached to this mail and you can find the snapshot here
<http://i.imgur.com/25Hi0pn.jpg>. Next, I'm going to do some research about
what condition variable imply in general and how do they work. If you have
any suggestions on where should I research or if there are any tasks(at
Rtems) I could complete complementary to this project, please let me know.

Also, thank you! The support on IRC has been great !

Regards,
Andrei

2015-03-11 12:03 GMT+02:00 Andrei - Constantin Popescu <
popescu.andrei1991 at gmail.com>:

> Hello!
>
> As stated here <https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/GSoC/GettingStarted> I have
> installed RSB, rtems and compile the modified Hello, world ! test
>
> The proofs are attached to this mail. Next, I'm going to do some research
> about what condition variable imply in general and how do they work. If you
> have any suggestions on where should I research or if there are any
> tasks(at Rtems) I could complete complementary to this project, please let
> me know.
>
> Also, thank you! The support on IRC has been great !
>
> Regards,
> Andrei
>
> 2015-03-09 13:54 GMT+02:00 Andrei - Constantin Popescu <
> popescu.andrei1991 at gmail.com>:
>
>> 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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