Query Regarding Old Projects, for GSoC 2019

[Vaibhav Gupta]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 3:24 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:

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> On Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 3:57 PM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> If it cannot be cross-compiled it would be hard to maintain long term.
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>> > Does it mmap in ways we don't support?
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>> 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.
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>> > 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/).
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> +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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