RTEMSSummerOfCode

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The RTEMS Project has been accepted as an organization for the Google Summer of Code 2008 (http://code.google.com/soc/). We were very happy to be allocated four student slots and a few students who didn't get slots have agreed to do their project as a volunteer for a bag of Google swag. See RTEMS Summer Of Code 2008 for information on each of the student projects underway.

Students: Please visit Open_Projects to see if you can find a project that interests you. If you have any questions about the projects, feel free to ask on the email list or use the Wiki Talk page feature. The project descriptions were usually written by someone with a high level of insight into the problem and will be happy to explain things in more detail to you.

Potential Mentors: Share your knowledge and pledge to help a student. Go here to register as a mentor and then return here and add your name to our list.

Contents 1 General Information 2 2008 SOC Proposals 3 Student Information 4 RTEMS Mentors 5 Project Ideas

General Information

• Google's Starting Page for the Summer of Code -- http://code.google.com/soc/
• Drupal has some information on the writing applications that looks promising
• Here is a Mentoring Howto
• The following link contains some information about how to write a proposal: How Not To Apply For Summer Of Code

2008 SOC Proposals

This section contains a bit of information on each proposal submitted so far and is intended to help us assign mentors. No evaluations of proposals or details should be discussed here.

We have overlapping proposals in the following areas:

• LWIP Port
• Debian Packaging

I do not think that two students are proposing BSPs or simulator enhancements for the same configurations.

Title	Student	Summary	Languages	Location	Possible Mentors
RTEMS BSP FOR SKYEYE PXA255 AND EP9312 TARGETS	Xi Yang	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Update of the RTEMS port of lwIP and development of an adapter to existing BSD NIC drivers	André Keller Abadie	lwIP using existing drivers	Portuguese/English	Brazil	TBD
Debian package for RTEMS	Bimal Varghese	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Eclipse based IDE for RTEMS	Cao Dongpo	eclipse based IDE for RTEMS	Chinese/English	China	TBD
Implement POSIX FIFO/pipe, Asynchronous IO, and Fix dup/dup2 for RTEMS	Wei Shen	FIFO, AIO, VFS			TBD
Write BSP for QEMU MIPS target	Liu Feng	QEMU MIPS BSP	Chinese/English	Shanghai,CN	TBD
LWIP Customization and Nipoa: Tools To Improve RTEMS Embedded Networking	R. D. Flowers	LWIP as option, Nipoa (NIC porting assistant)	English	Chattanooga,TN USA	TBD
A Super Core Layer Level Abstraction for supporting 64-bit Timestamps	Madhusudan.C.S	64-bit support for nanosecond timestamps	English/Kannada	B'lore,India	Joel Sherrill
Use SkyEye to do code coverage profiling of RTEMS	Please Update to Western Character Name	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
Bring virtualization into RTEMS	Please Update to Western Character Name	TBD	TBD	TBD	TBD
TinyRTEMS	Miao Yan	Tiny RTEMS	Chinese/English	China	TBD
Proposal for Runtime Tracing	Reng Zeng (Alan)	Tracing execution	Chinese/English	Miami,FL	Chris Johns
RTEMS Tool Support on Debian	Ryan James Harrison	Debian packages/ liveCD	English	Saskatchewan,Canada	TBD
BSP for QEMU ARM PXA target	Zhang, Rui	BSP for QEMU ARM PXA	Chinese/English	China	TBD

Student Information

• Students working on code should require no special hardware. The development can all be done and tested using a GNU/Linux host (preferably RPM based). Between the simulators in gdb, skyeye, and qemu, there is plenty of simulated target hardware.

• RTEMS is an operating system targeting embedded systems. All development is cross. Some of the projects are focused on improving the user development experience. Eclipse has proven popular for cross embedded development and one of the suggested projects is to bring those capabilities to RTEMS.

• RTEMS is designed to operate under tight resource restrictions. Some of the projects focus on breaking existing linkages between subsystems so those limits can be lowered further. Another area of effort is helping RTEMS fit into smaller systems.

• Even though it is targeted to embedded systems, developers still expect as many features as possible. RTEMS provides a robust set of POSIX primitives in addition to an ITRON API and what is now known as the Classic API which provides hard real-time functionality. Some of the projects are focused on implementing a few missing pieces of POSIX functionality.

RTEMS Mentors

This is probably not an all inclusive list of who has offered to be an RTEMS mentor.

• Joel Sherrill - I am one of the original RTEMS developers and have been the project maintainer for over 10 years.

• W. Eric Norum - I have been applying RTEMS to large experimental control system applications for over 8 years.

• Chris Johns - I have been a user and developer of RTEMS for over 10 years.

• Alain Schaefer - I am a user of RTEMS for 1 year and have ported RTEMS to the bfin architecture. I volunteer to mentor for the Eclipse and the Configuration GUI

• Thomas Doerfler - I have been a user and developer of RTEMS for about 8 years, mainly for industrial control units.

• Ray Xu - I have been a user and developer of RTEMS for about 3 years in my spare time for fun. I volunteer to mentor project related to tinyRTEMS, skyeye, USB etc.

• Alan Cudmore - I have been using RTEMS for satellite flight software applications for over 5 years. I volunteer to mentor for the Eclipse and Configuration GUI and the Mac OS X tools project.

• Daron Chabot - I've been using RTEMS in data acquisition systems for about 5 years and I've also been an Eclipse user for about 1.5 years.

Project Ideas

Open_Projects contains the open projects list for RTEMS. It is by no means an all inclusive list and we are open to suggestions. Submissions of ports to new architectures, new BSPs, new device drivers, and test improvements are always welcomed.