[GSoC] Introduction and Hello World proof

[Gedare Bloom]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 8:18 AM, Amaan Cheval <amaan.cheval at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey everyone!
>
> # Intro
>
> I'm still gaining familiarity with RTEMS, so I'm not sure about projects
> I might be interested in, but I'll make sure I communicate and discuss
> things as that changes.
>
> A little bit about who I am; I'm a final year (i.e. year 4) engineering
> student at Thakur College of Engineering in Mumbai, India. I've been
> working part-time for a startup building an Intel x86 emulator for
> nearly a year now; the emulator runs in Node.js and browsers
> (client-side JavaScript) - we use a fair amount of C (compiled to
> WebAssembly) and JavaScript for the source, and often some
> specific regression tests in x86 assembly, so I'm quite familiar with
> all of those.
>
Then I'll draw your attention to the varied x86 BSP improvement
projects. The goal there is to move toward a modern, possibly unified,
BSP for x86_64 and x86 targets. You might also be interested in
language-level projects to support using Node.js on RTEMS if you enjoy
JavaScript.

> Other trivia: my friends also make fun of me for having uttered the
> phrase "textbooks are like crack" :P
>
> I'd also like to say that this is an incredible project and I'm very
> excited to have come across it! :D
>
> # Hello World proof
>
> More to the point: I'm interested in participating in GSoC with RTEMS
> this year, and though I haven't finished perusing the abundant
> information on the wiki yet, I figured I'd get involved with the
> community early.
>
> In doing so, I've followed the getting started[1] instructions and
> patched the hello world C sample.
>
> The diff is as follows:
>
> diff --git a/testsuites/samples/hello/init.c b/testsuites/samples/hello/init.c
> index 34ded37c55..3f0d6ce9f1 100644
> --- a/testsuites/samples/hello/init.c
> +++ b/testsuites/samples/hello/init.c
> @@ -22,7 +22,9 @@ static rtems_task Init(
>  {
>    rtems_print_printer_fprintf_putc(&rtems_test_printer);
>    TEST_BEGIN();
> -  printf( "Hello World\n" );
> +  printf( "\n\n*** GSoC HELLO WORLD TEST ***\n" );
> +  printf( "Amaan says hello in 2018!\n" );
> +  printf( "*** END OF GSoC HELLO WORLD TEST ***\n" );
>    TEST_END();
>    rtems_test_exit( 0 );
>  }
>
> (I'm working my way around the project still, but I found that using
> examples-v2/hello was much simpler than modifying the testsuite sample,
> but my screenshot shows both modifications working.)
>
> I noticed that Gedare asked for a previous proof screenshot to be sent
> directly to them[2] - would you like me to do the same?
>
Yes.

> Would you also like the patch files along with the screenshot?
>
Yes.

> Links:
>
> [1] https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/GSoC/GettingStarted
> [2] https://lists.rtems.org/pipermail/devel/2018-January/019881.html
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