[GSoC] Introduction and Hello World proof

[Gedare Bloom]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:40 PM, Amaan Cheval <amaan.cheval at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 8:36 PM, Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>>
>
> Thanks! I was in fact eyeing the x86_64 BSP targets. I aim to understand
> RTEMS more from a user's perspective - likely using the POSIX API to
> build some toy projects and whatnot.
>
> As time goes on, hopefully I'll be able to contribute smaller patches -
> does the RTEMS tracker have tickets marked with any keywords indicating
> the easier tickets to tackle? (In the spirit of how Github projects tend
> to have "good-first-issue" labels for new contributors.)
>
Nope.