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[Vijay Kumar Banerjee]

Okay , I'll start a new thread as told by Joel .

On 15 March 2018 at 03:26, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:

>
>
> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 4:49 PM, Cillian O'Donnell <cpodonnell8 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> The covoar fixes made it in but all the python stuff never made it in
>> because of outstanding issues in the open project page, so to see it
>> working, it'll have to be from the old github until the terms tester stuff
>> gets merged.
>>
>
> OK. Start a new thread to ping Chris and I on. We will need to figure out
> where
> things stand and what barriers remain to merging it.
>
> At the least, your work needs to be rebaselined against the current master.
> Probably not too bad.
>
> --joel
>
>
>>
>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2018, 21:33 Joel Sherrill, <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 14, 2018 at 4:13 PM, Cillian O'Donnell <
>>> cpodonnell8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 14 March 2018 at 19:51, Cillian O'Donnell <cpodonnell8 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 14 March 2018 at 18:26, Vijay Kumar Banerjee <
>>>>> vijaykumar9597 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm still getting the Covoar not found error
>>>>>> I'm not able to understand what am I missing, if it needs a
>>>>>> fix, please help me understand the code.
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Have a look where all the rsb tools were built. Does covoar appear in
>>>>> there?
>>>>>
>>>>> The directory is something like:
>>>>>
>>>>> cd  ~/development/rtems/4.12/bin
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Sorry, nevermind that, just remenbered I had  put covoar there for
>>>> something else.
>>>>
>>>> You mentioned before that waf built covoar properly and it appeared in:
>>>>
>>>> "covoar is in /rtems-tools/build/covoar"
>>>>
>>>> is it this or is it rtems-tools/build/tester/covoar
>>>>
>>>> and you're definitely using the coverage-merge branch of my github
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/cillianodonnell/rtems-tools/tree/coverage-merge
>>>>
>>>
>>> It shouldn't matter much but I think we merged all your changes. If not,
>>> we want to
>>> fix that. Hopefully he can use the main rtems-tools.
>>>
>>> --joel
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 9 March 2018 at 22:20, Vijay Kumar Banerjee <
>>>>>> vijaykumar9597 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 9 Mar 2018 10:15 p.m., "Vijay Kumar Banerjee" <
>>>>>>> vijaykumar9597 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 9 Mar 2018 3:34 a.m., "Joel Sherrill" <joel.sherrill at gmail.com>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Sun, Mar 4, 2018 at 4:52 AM, Cillian O'Donnell <
>>>>>>> cpodonnell8 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 3 March 2018 at 22:18, Vijay Kumar Banerjee <
>>>>>>>> vijaykumar9597 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Hello sir,
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I need some guidance to proceed to apply for #2920 as my GSoC
>>>>>>>>> project.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I wanted to know the following points :
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  1. What are the prerequisites (do I have to produce something
>>>>>>>>> ? like the hello world )
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Other than the hello world, there's no official prerequisites.
>>>>>>>> Usually the next thing is to fix a small bug, have a look at the tickets
>>>>>>>> here:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://devel.rtems.org/query
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  2. reference materials (like specific doc), to familiarise with
>>>>>>>>> the rtems-tester and rsb .
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Relevant to you would be RTEMS Tester section of the main user
>>>>>>>> manual. The rest of the manual should be useful for setting up rtems in
>>>>>>>> general.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/user/tools/tester.html
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Running this and submitting some results for a BSP on a simulator
>>>>>>> would be a good step.
>>>>>>> This project requires doing that a lot.  You can do one BSP that
>>>>>>> runs on a gdb based simulator
>>>>>>> and another on a qemu based simulator.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll surely do that . currently I'm trying to run cillian's project
>>>>>>> , facing some issues with the test.py , which I'll try to fix , probably
>>>>>>> it's related to the path . I'll be at the other part of the country for a
>>>>>>>  few days (4 days ), after that I'll try to submit results for a BSP on a
>>>>>>> simulator
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> There is a project based on qemu that includes coverage trace
>>>>>>> ability.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The links to the previous projects which you already found and the
>>>>>>>> other links I've mentioned.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>  3. how to properly plan the project into phase wise tasks and
>>>>>>>>> weekly sub-tasks.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Essentially it would be:
>>>>>>>> 1. Get coverage analysis running again (converting the config files
>>>>>>>> to .ini and a couple of fixes to some of the parsing in the sections that
>>>>>>>> haven't been integrated, might be all that it takes).
>>>>>>>> 2. Then get the coverage tools integrated with RTEMS Tester. Which
>>>>>>>> is fix the outstanding issues that are mentioned in:
>>>>>>>> https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/2920
>>>>>>>> Chris Johns might have things to add to this, ultimately the
>>>>>>>> integration to RTEMS Tester will be up to him.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I would add finishing getting the Couverture qemu into the RSB.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Okay sir.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Once the setup is running, there are a couple of meaty projects.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Chris and I have talked about reworking the report generation in
>>>>>>> covoar.
>>>>>>> Currently, the C++ code writes HTML and txt files.  It would be nice
>>>>>>> to
>>>>>>> have covoar generate something which is subsequently processed
>>>>>>> with a report generator. We don't have a complete solution in mind
>>>>>>> but
>>>>>>> writing Sphinx like the RTEMS documentation is an option. One
>>>>>>> challenge
>>>>>>> is that the current HTML output has filtering capability and that
>>>>>>> wouldn't
>>>>>>> be possible (I think) using Sphinx.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The other desirable capability is to ensure the gcov output is
>>>>>>> correct and
>>>>>>> can be processed by the GNU gcov tool to produce reports with the
>>>>>>> same
>>>>>>> results as covoar. I think Cillian got a start on this but only as
>>>>>>> far as noting
>>>>>>> it wasn't always the same. We have a mentor from the GCC community
>>>>>>> to help with this.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Once the gcov output is trustworthy, we can try other tools like
>>>>>>> lcov to
>>>>>>> see what other reports we can get.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thank you for describing the object in detail , I'll read more about
>>>>>>> covoar and try to understand how it generates the output and how it can be
>>>>>>> modified .
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The order in which the problems are listed in that ticket are
>>>>>>>> probably the order in which you would complete them, the stuff about
>>>>>>>> generating the xml reports and gcov and all of that is probably a 2nd or
>>>>>>>> 3rd phase task for you depending on how it goes. The plan can change as you
>>>>>>>> go along, its just important that you make a plan to begin with.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Good luck,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cillian.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Thank you,
>>>>>>>>> Vijay k.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 1 March 2018 at 15:38, Cillian O'Donnell <cpodonnell8 at gmail.com
>>>>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 1 March 2018 at 09:10, Vijay Kumar Banerjee <
>>>>>>>>>> vijaykumar9597 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> hello,
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> while trying to figure out the starting point, I came across
>>>>>>>>>>> this project form GSoC 2017 by C.P. O'Donell
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/archive/2017/projects/
>>>>>>>>>>> 4925375616385024/
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Is this the project that has previous works on the project I'm
>>>>>>>>>>> wanting to take (#2920) ? If not , please help me find the right one.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hi Vijay,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Yes that's the one, let me know if you have any questions about
>>>>>>>>>> it. When I checked last month coverage is not working with the RTEMS Tester
>>>>>>>>>> because the configuration files for the bsps in rtems-tools/tester/rtems
>>>>>>>>>> have been converted from .mc to .ini So the old .mc files I mention need to
>>>>>>>>>> be converted before it will work again.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> This is what I wrote as the final documentation, it should help
>>>>>>>>>> you reproduce what I had working last summer.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/GSoC/2017/coveragetools
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Try this branch in github for the starting point:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> https://github.com/cillianodonnell/rtems-tools/tree/
>>>>>>>>>> coverage-merge
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Good luck with the project,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Cillian.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Also, please guide me with reading references and some small
>>>>>>>>>>> tickets related to the project .
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> Thank you ,
>>>>>>>>>>> Vijay k.
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> On 26 February 2018 at 21:54, Vijay Kumar Banerjee <
>>>>>>>>>>> vijaykumar9597 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thank you for giving me a detailed introduction to the project
>>>>>>>>>>>> objectives and mentors.
>>>>>>>>>>>>  I am interested in # 2920: "Improve Coverage analysis toolkit".
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Please guide me with the resources to get started with the
>>>>>>>>>>>> project and get a deep understanding.
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> Thank you
>>>>>>>>>>>> Vijay
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>> On 26 February 2018 at 15:36, Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org>
>>>>>>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> On Feb 26, 2018 2:22 AM, "Christian Mauderer" <
>>>>>>>>>>>>> christian.mauderer at embedded-brains.de> wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Am 24.02.2018 um 16:21 schrieb Vijay Kumar Banerjee:
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Hello,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > As told by Joel, I sent the screenshots of my working hello
>>>>>>>>>>>>> world to his
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > personal email and have also included my name in the GSoC
>>>>>>>>>>>>> tracking page .
>>>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > + Make Eclipse Target Interaction work with RTEMS
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > (https://www.eclipse.org/tcf/)
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > + Improvements to our coverage reporting. GCOV validation
>>>>>>>>>>>>> and covoar
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > reporting improvements
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > + wifi integration improvements
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > + aarch64 port
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > + x86_64 port / non-legacy PC BSP
>>>>>>>>>>>>> >    - This project is large so we would need to work with
>>>>>>>>>>>>> whoever wants
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > to tackle it
>>>>>>>>>>>>> >      to find the best subset for GSoC.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Based on this list I went through the OpenProjects page
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > and came across the following Tickets .,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > #2920 ,#3222,#2927 and the link to eclipse tcf .
>>>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > out of them , I find these interesting
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > 1.  "Improve coverage Analysis Toolset " (#2920);
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> This area is mine. The ticket mat or may not be a great
>>>>>>>>>>>>> description of the goals. There are probably three things that need to be
>>>>>>>>>>>>> done.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> + Integrate ran recipes for Couverture variant of qemu. This
>>>>>>>>>>>>> might be a very small task. Last year's student just didn't get this
>>>>>>>>>>>>> integrated and was waiting for some patches to be merged on their side.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> + Verify the gcov output from covoar is correct and the gcov
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (and similar tools) matches the coverage reports it generates. We have
>>>>>>>>>>>>> someone from the GCC community to help mentor here.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> + Covoar generates HTML and text output directly. There is a
>>>>>>>>>>>>> desire for it to generate something equally useful that is processed by
>>>>>>>>>>>>> existing tools to generate reports. One possible option for this output
>>>>>>>>>>>>> could be Sphinx like our regular documentation. Or it could be a
>>>>>>>>>>>>> data-centric format processed by other tools. The current HTML allows
>>>>>>>>>>>>> filtering and sorting so not losing information and ease of use is
>>>>>>>>>>>>> important. This probably will end up simplifying C++ and adding Python.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > 2.  "libbsd:WiFi support needs rc.conf integration " (#3222)
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Christian's project to mentor.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > also I came across # 3302 :" Build system conversion of BSP
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Config(.cfg)
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > files to pkg-config(.pc) files"
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > (I have some knowledge of Python, but not proficient in it,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I can learn
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > it better if it's required )
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > which I find interesting
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> This one is Chris Johns project to mentor. It is an important
>>>>>>>>>>>>> and logically the next step in replacing our build system with the Python
>>>>>>>>>>>>> based waf. If you get through this one before the summer is out, then
>>>>>>>>>>>>> working on waf would probably make sense.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Did I miss one?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hello Vijay,
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> all of the projects would be good ones.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The #2920 and #3302 are more connected to the host tools. They
>>>>>>>>>>>>> should be
>>>>>>>>>>>>> doable with few or no real hardware. But you should ask the two
>>>>>>>>>>>>> potential mentors about that.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> For the #3222 you would need some board supported by the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> libbsd (like
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Beagle Bone Black) and I would suggest a JTAG debugger (some
>>>>>>>>>>>>> OpenOCD
>>>>>>>>>>>>> based or similar).
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Am I following the right tickets? If not please help me find
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the right ones.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> The tickets are the right ones.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Out of these , which one do you recommend me to take ?
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> I would recommend to take a more detailed look at the tickets
>>>>>>>>>>>>> and start
>>>>>>>>>>>>> to ask some questions about it on the mailing list with CC to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the
>>>>>>>>>>>>> (potential) mentors.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Maybe you could also try to find some small tickets related to
>>>>>>>>>>>>> similar
>>>>>>>>>>>>> topics and just try to work on these. That could help you find
>>>>>>>>>>>>> out what
>>>>>>>>>>>>> you want to do.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > My experience with C/C++ : I am proficient in C++11 with STL
>>>>>>>>>>>>> . Also
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > proficient in C language .
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > My experience with opensource : This is the first open
>>>>>>>>>>>>> source project
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > I'm taking up .
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> It's no problem if it's your first Open Source project. That's
>>>>>>>>>>>>> the point
>>>>>>>>>>>>> of GSoC: To collect first Open Source experience.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Best regards
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Christian Mauderer
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Thank you ,
>>>>>>>>>>>>> > Vijay K.
>>>>>>>>>>>>> >
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>
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