BBB GSoC Projects was Re: Gsoc 2016 project proposal

[Marcos Díaz]

We use I2c but using drivers from TI's baremetal drivers they provide in
their StarterWare software suite.
So, currently we cannot commit that into RTEMS.
But those drivers should be very useful to port to RTEMS.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:

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> 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:
>>>
>>>> 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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>>>
> 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
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:57 AM, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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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