What do you want to study in GSOC 2020?

[Peter Dufault]

Niteesh, what do you want to study?  Go over what most interests you most about working in a real-time environment like RTEMS, and not about working on the RPI, and look at the earlier GSOC projects. Propose an ideal project for yourself and get some feedback.

> On Dec 28, 2019, at 05:12 , Christian Mauderer <list at c-mauderer.de> wrote:
> 
> On 28/12/2019 07:12, Niteesh wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On Sat, 28 Dec, 2019, 3:51 AM Christian Mauderer, <list at c-mauderer.de
>> <mailto:list at c-mauderer.de>> wrote:
>> 
>>    On 27/12/2019 19:06, Niteesh wrote:
>>> Is there something else that I could work on? I am interested in
>>    taking
>>> part 
>>> GSOC of 2020. And I want to learn as much as possible.
>> 
>>    Do you search tasks specific to raspberry or general ones? Do you search
>>    something for GSoC or just to warm up?
>> 
>> Anything is fine as long as I am learning something. Since rpi3 is the
>> only hardware I have, I am interested in tasks specific to raspi and
>> general ones which do not require any hardware.
> 
> For raspberry I think you could continue to get it running on RPi3. My
> suggestion would be to replace the table based initialization (which is
> handled by console-termios-init.c) with one based on the fdt that is
> similar to the one in the imx BSP. That will allow to use the same
> binary on RPi2 and RPi3. But please do that in an extra patch after the
> one that you currently have sent to the mailing list.
> 
> 
> Some other raspberry specific topics could be the following. Note that
> this are only suggestions. I don't want to force you to do any of them
> if you don't like them:
> 
> - Documentation how you run an application in QEMU / on real hardware
> for the user manual:
> https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/user/bsps/bsps-arm.html#raspberrypi
> (I hope I didn't miss a patch that you already sent ;-) )
> 
> - A configuration for RTEMS tester that uses the QEMU or real hardware
> (I think the pi3 allows network boot?). This allows regular test runs
> for this BSP:
> https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/user/testing/index.html and
> https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/user/tools/tester.html
> 
> - Chris created a boot image generator last year. It would be great if
> you could add a configuration to create raspberry SD images to it:
> https://docs.rtems.org/branches/master/user/tools/boot-image.html
> 
> - You can pick basically any component that isn't already there and
> integrate it. If you want to work with libbsd: Testing or porting
> Ethernet support could be something.
> 
> - You most likely want to do something with RPi in your GSoC too. So
> maybe some comments ("x is already done", "y seems to be still open")
> for the ticket for it would be nice too: https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/2899
> 
> 
> For non raspberry topics: We have a lot of open bugs where everyone is
> happy if they are closed: https://devel.rtems.org/query
> 
> A lot of them might are even out of date and just need someone who reads
> them and asks whether they can be closed.
> 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 5:07 PM Christian Mauderer
>>    <list at c-mauderer.de <mailto:list at c-mauderer.de>
>>> <mailto:list at c-mauderer.de <mailto:list at c-mauderer.de>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>      On 27/12/2019 12:20, Niteesh wrote:
>>>      > I have sent the patch. I also sent a documentation update
>>    for the
>>>      > quick-start section
>>>      > a few months ago. But no one took a look at it. Can you have a
>>>      look at it?
>>> 
>>>      I'll try to have a look at it soon.
>>> 
>>>      >
>>>      > https://www.mail-archive.com/devel@rtems.org/msg20965.html
>>> 
>>>      If you don't get any responses to a patch please just send a
>>    reminder
>>>      one or two weeks later. It's quite likely that the patch just
>>    slipped
>>>      the attention.
>>> 
>>>      Normally I leave documentation patches to our native speakers.
>>    They spot
>>>      a lot of errors that I won't be able to find.
>>> 
>>>      Can you please send a ping for the patch. You can add me to CC
>>    and for
>>>      this one I would suggest to CC Chris Johns too.
>>> 
>> 
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