BBB GSoC Projects was Re: Gsoc 2016 project proposal

Sun Mar 6 15:24:39 UTC 2016

On Sun, Mar 6, 2016 at 2:09 PM, Ketul Shah <ketulshah1993 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello Punit and all,
>
> According to me, Punit you must have completed some gpio test through gpio
> API that was merged last year. So till the final result of accepted student
> you can start working with PWM driver that plays an important role for any
> embedded project. This would be a good kick-start for you as well as a
> strong reason to showcase in your proposal. Try to give hardware test and
> post the video if possible.
>
> Coming to further I2C and SPI can be next milestones. To me these should
> be at the highest priorities. I had done I2C driver but was not able to
> make the hardware test. So you can also refer that and come up with the
> output along with best modifications.
>
> Next target you can set for SPI after both drivers are tested and
> committed.
>
> For the references you can always have a loot at code of GPIO
> API,MINIX,FreeBSD for BBB drivers.
>
> Any suggestions ?
>
> In case of any queries you can always ping.
>
> Cheers,
> Ketul
>
> On 5 March 2016 at 01:02, Marcos Díaz <marcos.diaz at tallertechnologies.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 2:22 PM, Marcos Díaz <
>>> marcos.diaz at tallertechnologies.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 4:56 PM, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>> 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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>>>>
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>
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>>
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> Thank a lot for helping me. Till now I have completed hello world Test on
Beagle Bone Black.Soon I will post video on youtube. I will follow your
suggestions. Any more suggestions for me @Joel regarding proposal and
prerequisite tasks ?
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