QEMU Beagleboard Emulator

[Gedare Bloom]

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On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 8:58 AM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:

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> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 8:47 AM Ahamed Husni <ahamedhusni73 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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>> This project is only suitable if you have access to the hardware. I
>>> don't think there are enough interesting things to do in the emulated
>>> environment, and the hardware is relatively cheap and available that
>>> improving the qemu support for it is not currently of interest to us
>>> either.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks. Then I'll get a beagleboard within a couple of days.
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  Once you have it, reproduce the Getting Started guide using the hardware.
Running hello world on the hardware is a pre-requisite task to include in
your submitted proposal to show that you can do it.


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>> Perhaps, you may like to discuss what kinds of projects interest you,
>>> and we can brainstorm about possibilities. Also, I hope you are
>>> starting to work on our GSoC Getting Started guide.
>>>
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>> I followed the quick-start guide and everything worked out for
>> sparc-erc32.
>> I have attached the screenshots below. Sorry for not sending them earlier.
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>> Please send the patch as a separate patch email.


> The Beagle was never supported in the main Qemu source. It was
>>> always in a Linaro maintained repository. I have no idea if it still is
>>> there or works. But it isn't going to have any support for devices
>>> that are not already supported in the best case.
>>>
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>> Yes. The repo is not maintained now. The #2891 ticket had requested to
>> build the emulator like a prerequisite. So I tried to build the
>> qemu-linaro
>> from source, followed the blog of Ben Gras
>> <http://www.shrike-systems.com/beagleboard-xm-beaglebone-black-and-everything-else-rtems-on-the-beagles.html>
>> and a couple other ways.
>> None of them worked. Getting the hardware is the way to go. :)
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  For now, add a comment to the ticket that the emulator build doesn't
work, and that hardware is required to work on this ticket/task.


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>> There is a long list of projects and I posted a few ideas to the
>>> devel@ list this week that are not listed there.
>>>
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>>    1. Improve Test Coverage
>>    2. Covoar Change C-isms to C++
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>> These are the projects I found on the mail archive as I joined the
>> mailing list later.
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>> I was thinking of Adding PRU Support (#3730
>> <https://devel.rtems.org/ticket/3730>) if this is a suitable project for
>> GSoC.
>> Please guide me to get started.
>>
>> The PRU is interesting, start a new thread to open discussion about it.


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>> -- Husni
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>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2021 at 4:05 AM Joel Sherrill <rtems.org <joel at rtems.org>>
>> wrote:
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>>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 3:58 PM Gedare Bloom <gedare at rtems.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Husni,
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Mar 18, 2021 at 2:28 PM Ahamed Husni <ahamedhusni73 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> > Hi everyone,
>>>> >    I'm new to RTEMS Project. I'm interested to work in #2891 ticket
>>>> (Beagle BSP) for GSoC. I need a beagleboard emulator. I tried the following,
>>>> >
>>>> Welcome.
>>>>
>>>> This project is only suitable if you have access to the hardware. I
>>>> don't think there are enough interesting things to do in the emulated
>>>> environment, and the hardware is relatively cheap and available that
>>>> improving the qemu support for it is not currently of interest to us
>>>> either.
>>>>
>>>
>>> +1
>>>
>>> The Beagle was never supported in the main Qemu source. It was
>>> always in a Linaro maintained repository. I have no idea if it still is
>>> there or works. But it isn't going to have any support for devices
>>> that are not already supported in the best case.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Perhaps, you may like to discuss what kinds of projects interest you,
>>>> and we can brainstorm about possibilities. Also, I hope you are
>>>> starting to work on our GSoC Getting Started guide.
>>>>
>>>
>>> There is a long list of projects and I posted a few ideas to the
>>> devel@ list this week that are not listed there.
>>>
>>> Our projects will be in C, C++, or Python. If you have a preferred
>>> language, that also helps to narrow the projects. Although I
>>> don't know that the project tickets are good at listing language.
>>> We can help with that.
>>>
>>> --joel
>>>
>>>>
>>>> -Gedare
>>>>
>>>> > $ ../source-builder/sb-set-builder --prefix=$HOME/quick-start/rtems/5
>>>> devel/qemu4
>>>> > $ qemu-system-arm -M beagle
>>>> >         qemu-system-arm: -M beagle: unsupported machine type
>>>> >         Use -machine help to list supported machines
>>>> >
>>>> > I can find any beagle machines in the list.
>>>> >
>>>> > Please help me to set it up.
>>>> >
>>>> > Thanks,
>>>> > Husni.
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