Query Regarding Old Projects, for GSoC 2019

[Vaibhav Gupta]

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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