potential GSOC project: Improve the Raspberry Pi BSP

[Andre Marques]

Hello,

I would be very interested in working in this project because I'm 
currently trying to work with Raspberry Pi and RTEMS for my 
undergraduate thesis, so this could be a great followup to that for the 
summer.

I will need to do some reseach on it before making a proposal (the time 
is also gettting shorter), but will post a proposal draft very soon.

--André Marques.

On 03/13/14 11:23, Alan Cudmore wrote:
> ( I posted this to the rtems-devel list by mistake, my apologies for 
> the duplicate message )
>
> f there are still potential GSOC students out there looking for a 
> project, I would like to offer a potential project to work on: 
> Improving the Raspberry Pi BSP. I would be happy to mentor a student 
> for this project. Below is my description for the task.
>
> Thanks,
> Alan
>
> One of the RTEMS Open Projects is to contribute a BSP or Board Support 
> Package for readily available boards. The Raspberry Pi is probably the 
> most available board at $25 and $35 USD, and there have been over two 
> million of these boards sold. The RTEMS head (4.11) currently has a 
> basic BSP for the Raspberry Pi, supporting the CPU, a single UART, and 
> timer. It is enough to run some basic RTEMS programs, but expanding 
> the BSP to support peripherals will make it much more useful.
> For this project, the GSOC student could improve the peripheral 
> support for the Raspberry Pi BSP.
> The peripherals we need to support (in order of increasing difficulty) 
> include:
> 1. GPIO (This has been done by one user, but is not integrated)
> 2. I2C Bus
> 3. SPI Bus
> 4. Secure Digital card read and write support (using the SPI bus)
> 5. Graphics / RTEMS Framebuffer Support (I have a graphics demo 
> working in an RTEMS task)
> 6. USB Device support
> 7. HDMI/Graphics console (Requires framebuffer support and USB or GPIO 
> connected keyboard device)
> 8. Ethernet network support (Requires USB support)
> The entire list is probably too much for a single student to 
> accomplish, so we can adjust the list of work according to what is 
> possible.
>
> It may also be a good idea to add support for both models of the 
> Raspberry Pi (256MB and 512MB) and be able to configure the memory map 
> in the BSP to match the boot time split between the CPU and GPU memory.
>
> Finally, in order to do some of this coding, it may be necessary to 
> come up with a more efficient way to load and debug code on the 
> Raspberry Pi. Options include using U-boot or connecting a JTAG debug 
> device to load code.
>
>
>
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