GSOC 2016 Aspirant

[Gedare Bloom]

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
> Great! Remember today is the deadline to get the Google application in with
> the PDF of your proposal. Do your best and we will work to fine tune it
> assuming you meet the Google deadline.
>
Not just today, but I think it is in 2.5 hours or so.

> Please update the table of students (you need a Trac/wiki account to do
> this) and include a link to your proposal in Google docs.
>
This can be completed after Google's deadline, but must be done.

> The Pi2 should be an interesting project. Last year's student got stuck on
> SMP support. That is important to get working so we have a cheap 4-core ARM
> reference target,
>
> --joel
>
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 10:25 AM, Mudit Jain <muditjain18011995 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> PFA patch and a screen shot as a proof of having completed the environment
>> setup.
>> I have made an initial draft of the application. Will be updating the
>> google portal and the site soon.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mudit
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 6:16 PM, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> OK, that should be a good set for your proposal. I'm not sure what the
>>> status is for Pi2 now. It may need some cleanup. Make sure you get
>>> your final PDF and enrollment submitted today.
>>>
>>> Please keep devel on any emails of non-private nature.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 8:33 AM, Mudit Jain <muditjain18011995 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > Hi Gedare,
>>> >
>>> > I have read the link that you have suggested and it has provided me a
>>> > good
>>> > insight into the matter.
>>> >
>>> > I planned on implementing the support for Pi 2/B
>>> >
>>> > In addition to the SD file system support I also plan on adding DMA
>>> > support
>>> > for I2C and SPI,
>>> > support for second SPI device and model identification, detection and
>>> > reporting.
>>> >
>>> > Thanks
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 5:23 PM, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> For prior effort on SD card see
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >> https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/GSoC/2015/RaspberryPi_peripherals_and_SD_card#SDcardsupport
>>> >>
>>> >> There is another student that is planning to add USB/NIC support. You
>>> >> would be best served to avoid too much overlap, but if you go for a
>>> >> different RPi model that may not matter. What specific RPi board do
>>> >> you plan to use?
>>> >>
>>> >> I would guess SD card is only good for the first half of GSoC, so
>>> >> you'll need to identify what else you could do. The other periperhals
>>> >> (GPIO, i2c, SPI) support have been merged by Andre.
>>> >>
>>> >> On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Mudit Jain
>>> >> <muditjain18011995 at gmail.com>
>>> >> wrote:
>>> >> > Hi everyone,
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I am Mudit Jain, a final year undergraduate student in Electronics
>>> >> > and
>>> >> > Communication Engineering at BITS Pilani Hyderabad Campus.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I wish to apply for GSOC 2016, with RTEMS as the mentoring
>>> >> > organization.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I have gone through your website for details regarding the
>>> >> > development
>>> >> > process and the projects that could be done.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I am interested in working on the project titled "Low Level
>>> >> > Peripherals
>>> >> > and
>>> >> > SD Card Support for Raspberry PI " [ Project group 1  - Improving
>>> >> > Raspberry
>>> >> > PI BSP ] under Alan Cudmore as the mentor.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Given the limited time I have for the application process, I have
>>> >> > parallelly
>>> >> > started to set up the RTEMS environment and also write my proposal
>>> >> > for
>>> >> > the
>>> >> > project that I am interested in.
>>> >> > I will be updating this email thread once I have set up the env.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > I understand that I am applying at the last moment, however I
>>> >> > request
>>> >> > you to
>>> >> > consider my application.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > It would be great if people could suggest any good points that I
>>> >> > need to
>>> >> > account for, in my application.
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Thanks
>>> >> >
>>> >> > Cheers
>>> >> > Mudit Jain
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
>>> >> >
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