GSoC Proposal : BeagleBoard project

[Vijay Kumar Banerjee]

On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 1:25 PM Christian Mauderer <list at c-mauderer.de>
wrote:

> Am 31.03.19 um 09:08 schrieb Vijay Kumar Banerjee:
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Mar 31, 2019 at 7:27 AM Chris Johns <chrisj at rtems.org
> > <mailto:chrisj at rtems.org>> wrote:
> >
> >     On 31/3/19 5:05 am, Vijay Kumar Banerjee wrote:
> >     > On Sat, Mar 30, 2019 at 5:09 PM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org
> >     <mailto:gedare at rtems.org>
> >     > <mailto:gedare at rtems.org <mailto:gedare at rtems.org>>> wrote:
> >     >
> >     >     Remember you can submit your "Final" proposal many times on
> >     GSoC site.
> >     >     I made a few comments just regarding the 'public' view of your
> >     >     project. I think the technical plan looks reasonable, and
> >     leave it to
> >     >     the potential mentors to steer your technical path.
> >     >
> >     >     Gedare
> >     >
> >     > Thank you for reviewing the proposal. I have made the changes
> >     according to the
> >     > comments and also have uploaded the final proposal in the summer
> >     of code site.
> >
> >     How will this be tested?
> >
> > The target is to get a console on display. To test each step, I was
> > planning to write some
> > tests like to test the EDID reading, we can write a test that returns
> > the EDID reading if the
> > display is detected, or an error if it's not there.
> > I think this point is very important and not very clear to me yet. Do
> > you have any suggestions
> > on testing each part of the project and if possible, include them in the
> > testsuite?
> >
> >     Is https://github.com/littlevgl/lvgl of any value?
> >
> > I had a brief look and this looks really great and can be a nice
> > addition to RTEMS.
> > I think this will go in the "future improvements" (?)
> >
> >     Chris
> >
> >
>
> I would suggest a framebuffer console as the primary target for this
> project. Maybe as an extended goal it could be nice to try the libraries
> already in RSB:
>
>   https://git.rtems.org/rtems-source-builder/tree/rtems/config/graphics
>
> Adding a new library would be a very extended goal in my view because it
> hast the potential to eat up a lot of time.
>
> Vijay: I think you most likely need some test application already during
> phase 2? So maybe you should add a point that you want to at least start
> a fb-console there? Alternatively: Some simple test application that
> just draws some dots or lines?
>
> In phase 3 it would be great to have the graphics libraries as extended
> goal (lower priority than cleanup and getting code merged).
>
> Hi,

Thanks for the notes. I have added a point about writing a test application
in phase 2
and also mentioned the intention to use the RSB graphics library to get a
GUI after the
code gets merged.

>
> Regards
>
> Christian
>
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