BBB GSoC Projects was Re: Gsoc 2016 project proposal

[Joel Sherrill]

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Marcos Díaz <
marcos.diaz at tallertechnologies.com> wrote:

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> 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 :-(
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>> Let me reach out to Ketul and see if a private ping helps.
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>> 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.
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>> SPI and i2c are close to one another in my understanding. Likely Ketul is
>> referring to changes
>> in the RTEMS i2c interfaces.
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>> 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.
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> We had more of these problems when trying to use I2C. It was fixed in
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> https://git.rtems.org/rtems/commit/?id=8c5c53f4788eb74264a053f8293fed26da85b764.
> I think we dont need tos ee these problems any more
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Marcos.. does this mean that the BBB i2c is complete now?

And is my understanding that this covers SPI correct?

What else on the BBB is left?

--joel


> --joel
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>> 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:
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>>>>> 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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