Improve the Raspberry Pi BSP

[Denil Verghese]

On Wed, 18 Mar, 2020, 7:43 PM Alan Cudmore, <alan.cudmore at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is probably not a comprehensive list, but currently all models except
> the Pi 4 are working thanks to Niteesh’s work on the uart for the Pi 3 and
> Zero W.
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> I believe there is some support for GPIO, and I2C.
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> I’m not sure about the state of SPI.
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> There is also support for the graphics console, but I don’t know that
> state of that with the various Pi models as well.
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> Finally, there was an effort to port libbsd to the Pi, but I don’t think
> it was completed.
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> From what I know the Pi 4 is not supported at all yet.
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> So there is still a lot of work to do, maybe too much for a single GSoC
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> Maybe try to narrow the focus on something like:
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>    - Libbsd and SMP support for the Raspberry Pi 3?
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> That is a great idea. Thanks for the suggestion.

Will this will be more useful than my current proposal?( Which is based on
Release note generator and code formatter.).

I have been learning how to use RTEMS and rtems-libbsd on the beaglebone
> black lately. Having that capability along with SMP on the Pi 3 would be
> great.
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> Alan
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> *From: *Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, March 17, 2020 11:19 PM
> *To: *Denil Verghese <denilcv3 at gmail.com>
> *Cc: *rtems-devel at rtems.org <devel at rtems.org>
> *Subject: *Re: Improve the Raspberry Pi BSP
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> On Sun, Mar 15, 2020, 10:20 PM Denil Verghese <denilcv3 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi,
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>    I would like to know whether the projects shown in this
> https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/2899 ticket is completed or not. If the
> ideas are yet to implement I could work on it.
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> I think there is plenty left. I am not authoritative on this though.
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> I think getting Pi3/4 support still has work.
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> I think USB plus Ethernet.
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> I recall the graphics work was done on the Beagle.
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> I am not even sure that Pi2 qemu support has been worked through
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> It will more interesting to work those projects rather than my currently
> selected project which is Release Note Generator.
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> Meanwhile I have uploaded my draft proposal which is ongoing self revision.
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> Thank you
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> Denil C Verghese
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