BBB GSoC Projects was Re: Gsoc 2016 project proposal

[Marcos Díaz]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:

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> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 1:41 PM, punit vara <punitvara at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Yes I have checked previous year work of ketul . He has done ADC and GPIO
>> BSP . It seems SPI,USB BSP need to be developed as I have checked rtems.git
>> and I am not sure about I2C .I asked last year student Ketul .According to
>> him , I2c is also need to be modified. I tried to contact Ben but he is
>> unreachable on mailing list :-(
>>
>>
> Let me reach out to Ketul and see if a private ping helps.
>
> Start with the assumption that USB needs work. That involves the
> rtems-libbsd tree and
> there is likely code to import from FreeBSD that will help a lot.
>
> SPI and i2c are close to one another in my understanding. Likely Ketul is
> referring to changes
> in the RTEMS i2c interfaces.
>
> My recollection is that the NIC had performance issues based on the
> version of U-Boot
> used. There was some traffic at the end of GSoC about this. I don't know
> if it was
> ever resolved.  But the NIC should work. Maybe worth benchmarking.
>
We had more of these problems when trying to use I2C. It was fixed in
https://git.rtems.org/rtems/commit/?id=8c5c53f4788eb74264a053f8293fed26da85b764.
I think we dont need tos ee these problems any more

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> --joel
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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>>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 1:24 PM, Hesham Almatary <
>>> heshamelmatary at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Punit,
>>>>
>>>> You can have a look at the open projects here [1] and find one or more
>>>> that match your experience/interests.
>>>>
>>>> [1] https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/OpenProjects
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I have added Ben Gras. He knows more about the BBB than anyone. I am
>>> unsure what is left
>>> to do. Have you compared the status of last year's projects versus the
>>> git repository?
>>>
>>> --joel
>>>
>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 7:14 PM, punit vara <punitvara at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> >  I have asked for BBB BSP proposal before but I haven't found any good
>>>> > response from someone. What are the projects you are going to mentor
>>>> @joel ?
>>>> > Would anyone please suggest me to pick any other project ?
>>>> >
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