Query Regarding Old Projects, for GSoC 2019

[Joel Sherrill]

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.

>
> Chris
>
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