Project query

[Gedare Bloom]

On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 6:29 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
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> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 6:12 PM John Millard <jmillard at sprynet.com> wrote:
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>> Greetings:
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>> I took Joel’s week-long class in June.
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> :) Thanks. Hope you enjoyed it.
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>> I’m currently retired and looking for a project, but clearly not a GSoC guy. The default list of tickets is mostly old or currently assigned.
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> Currently assigned may not mean as much as you think. It is often done by someone to direct the ticket to who wrote the code. I know I often file tickets where I have looked into who is most likely to fix it and assign it to them.
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> For example, I need to file a ticket for breakages building rtems-examples using waf. And when you build RTEMS using rtems6 tools, there are breakages because rtems5 is not replaced with rtems6 is still in some places. I reported both I think this week to devel.
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>> The “open projects” page looks more relevant. I can buy hardware if somewhat reasonably priced. Having actual hardware would be somewhat preferred, even if qemu is amazing. I can do assembly (most familiar with Intel, but open to learning), low-level C down to the hardware, and have experience with OS level programming and drivers, serial and network transport, debuggers.
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> If that's the direction you want to go in, the x86_64 port and bsp are incomplete. There should be plenty of room to get things working. This would help ween us off of depending on legacy boot PCs.
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+1

And so far few students to work on it, and it is a big area to work on.

There is also an open project to improve legacy x86:
https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/2900

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>> Is there some priority on the projects? They are all equal, but some are more equal than others. I can guess the scope on some of them.
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> For the most part, there isn't much priority. If you ask different people, you will likely get different answers.
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>> Suggestions welcome.
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>> John
>> —where there are tools, a will, and a will to build tools there is a way
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