Query Regarding Old Projects, for GSoC 2019

[Vaibhav Gupta]

On Fri, 15 Mar, 2019, 12:27 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org wrote:

> It's always good to discuss old project ideas and make sure they are still
> sane and useful.
>
Yes I agree, I meant for GSoC I am focusing on "POSIX Compilance"
But any project ideas, old/new, always trigger my curiosity, the reason I
asked it in the query, we can work on it.

>
> 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.
>
Yah it was clear. I am following the steps you said.
-Have got FACE Technical Standard pdf.
-I found that aio.h has got its palce in newlib.
-Still exploring and analysing.

>
> 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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