Query Regarding Old Projects, for GSoC 2019

[Joel Sherrill]

It's always good to discuss old project ideas and make sure they are still
sane and useful.

On the POSIX Compliance, I am make sure it is said publicly that methods
included in
FACE Technical Standard profiles that are missing are the highest priority
to add. And
this is documented in the Compliance document.

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 12:34 AM Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupta40 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> After having off-list discussion with Dr Joel, I have already got a
> direction in project "POSIX Compilance" and I am giving my all time,
> solely, on that only.
> .
> But I am thankful to community that they gave their attention on this
> query, of mine.
>
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 3:56 PM Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupta40 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 3:24 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 3:57 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11/3/19 9:06 am, Joel Sherrill wrote:
>>>> > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 2:29 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org
>>>> > <mailto:chrisj at rtems.org>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >     On 6/3/19 10:23 pm, Amaan Cheval wrote:
>>>> >     > I'm not sure if the project is open, but if it is, I'd be
>>>> willing to
>>>> >     co-mentor.
>>>> >
>>>> >     Thanks.
>>>> >
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 2:45 PM Vaibhav Gupta <
>>>> vaibhavgupta40 at gmail.com
>>>> >     <mailto:vaibhavgupta40 at gmail.com>
>>>> >     > <mailto:vaibhavgupta40 at gmail.com <mailto:
>>>> vaibhavgupta40 at gmail.com>>> wrote:
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     >     I was exploring for more open projects and found the
>>>> following one.
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     >     - Port V8 Javascript Engine :
>>>> >     >     https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Projects/Open/V8
>>>> >     >
>>>> >     >     Not much information is given about it and even the above
>>>> link was
>>>> >     modified
>>>> >     >     in 2015. I want to know if the project is open for GSOC
>>>> 2019?
>>>> >     >     If it is open, then It would be great to know if someone
>>>> would like to
>>>> >     >     mentor it. I would like to discuss further on it.
>>>> >
>>>> >     I suggest you create a ticket for this project like the other
>>>> GSoC tickets we
>>>> >     have and add some additional details ..
>>>> >
>>>> >     - Please list the archs supported, this is viewable in the src
>>>> tree.
>>>> >     - Add something about needing Chromium's depot_tools. I see
>>>> FreeBSD is not
>>>> >       listed but chromium is available on FreeBSD.
>>>> >     - Investigate the build system and if it is possible to
>>>> cross-compile.
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm a bit concerned that it may require things RTEMS does not have.
>>>>
>>>> If it cannot be cross-compiled it would be hard to maintain long term.
>>>>
>>>> > Does it mmap in ways we don't support?
>>>>
>>>> I also wondered. There is an abstraction in the POSIX platform code for
>>>> mmap so
>>>> a grep would let us know.
>>>>
>>>> > I doubt it forks new processes but that has to be answered.
>>>>
>>>> Yeap.
>>>>
>>>> > Some basic research plus an attempt to compile it for RTEMS with
>>>> > problem sections disabled is a good first step of any porting
>>>> evaluation.
>>>>
>>>> Yes.
>>>>
>>>> > FWIW I looked at porting the PDF viewer from chromium to RTEMS. Their
>>>> build
>>>> > system seemed quite complex.
>>>>
>>>> Firefox uses a js project held in github (
>>>> https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/).
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> Just to be clear, I am not discouraging this as a project. I just think
>>> it needs some homework to.make sure it is feasible.
>>>
>> I will check the things.
>>
>>>
>>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>
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