Project for GSoC 2020

[Utkarsh Rai]

Thanks, I will check it out.

On Fri, Feb 21, 2020 at 12:56 AM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 12:45 PM Utkarsh Rai <utkarsh.rai60 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Based on your feedback,  adding memory protection or enhancing Wi-fi
> Support in libbsd are two projects that I would like to work upon.
> >
> > For MMU support I think a lot unmerged PowerPC code is already present,
> but since  I would be using BBB I would only be able to use that as a
> reference. Is it feasible to start it from scratch?
> >
> The state-of-the-art has advanced in the rtems.git tree since these
> projects happened, and it is not all documented. The ARM in particular
> generally uses a static initialization or boot-time initialization of
> the MMU. You  should study how the ARM approach works in the RTEMS
> main repo, and consider whether that approach can be adopted by other
> architectures/BSPs, how to improve that approach, and how to build
> higher-level services on top of the low-level BSP support that exists.
>
> One of the main interesting applications is to provide thread stack
> protection.
>
> > For Wi-Fi support, I would require an RTL8188 USB dongle along with JTAG
> for debugging purposes. I am not quite sure about how to handle the
> 'hot-plugging' case in this project it would be very helpful if someone
> could point me in the right direction.
> >
> I can't speak to the WiFi support, maybe others know. But to get
> started you would need to at least demonstrate that you have the
> necessary hardware to succeed and that you can at a minimum boot/run
> BBB with libbsd, and probably we should like you to show that you can
> generate patches for libbsd.
>
> Gedare
>
> >
> > On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 1:21 AM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, Feb 17, 2020 at 9:42 AM Utkarsh Rai <utkarsh.rai60 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> Hello Utkarsh Rai,
> >>
> >>>
> >>> I would like to contribute to the Beagleboard BSP project, in
> particular towards the improvement of the peripheral support. I have a few
> questions pertaining to the same:-
> >>>
> >>> 1. Is adding support for Ethernet and USB a reasonable goal for the
> duration of the GSOC?
> >>>
> >>> 2. FreeBSD has support for Ethernet and USB  can we port that to
> libbsd?
> >>>
> >>> 3. What are the deliverables for this project, for instance, would I
> be required to add shell support for these peripherals or maybe an example
> app?
> >>>
> >>> I have also attached a screenshot of the changed  'hello world'
> program along with this email
> >>
> >> Thanks. It is nice to see that you already ran it successfully on the
> BBB.
> >>
> >> As of now, the BBB has quite mature support including Ethernet and USB.
> There is another student actively working on a proposal to expand our BBB
> support a bit further. I'm not certain if there is sufficient
> work/interest/mentoring available to support multiple BBB projects. You
> might consider what specific projects would interest you though. You should
> take a look at past years' GSoC projects documented on our wiki, they are
> linked from our main 'GSoC' page.
> >>
> >> There are also lots of interesting projects that can be done in a
> BSP-agnostic way, but still could be valuable to test with the BBB. The
> most important aspect about doing development with a BBB is that you can
> use the JTAG, which requires some soldering and additional effort to work
> with a standalone JTAG debugger.  If you don't have that, and want to work
> with the BBB, it is highly recommended.
> >>
> >>
> >>>
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