Project query

[suyash singh]

So can I work on x86_64 BSP without hardware with simulator?
https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/2898

Also out of the prerequisites I only know C programming language but I am
ready to learn everything else.

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 9:13 AM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 19, 2020 at 6:29 PM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 19, 2020, 6:12 PM John Millard <jmillard at sprynet.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Greetings:
> >>
> >> I took Joel’s week-long class in June.
> >
> >
> > :) Thanks. Hope you enjoyed it.
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> +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
>
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> >
> > For the most part, there isn't much priority. If you ask different
> people, you will likely get different answers.
> >
> >>
> >> Suggestions welcome.
> >>
> >> John
> >> —where there are tools, a will, and a will to build tools there is a way
> >>
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