[MinnowBoard] GSoC 2015 - Is there interest?

[Simon Glass]

Hi John,

On 10 February 2015 at 19:29, John Hawley <john.hawley at intel.com> wrote:
>
> In a more general sense I've gone ahead and started the bare bones page at
>
> http://elinux.org/Minnowboard:GSoC2015
>
> if you've got an idea and are willing to mentor, add it and talk to me
> about it.  I have some extra requirements on how I run GSoC orgs:
>
> - We generally group mentor, so you'll never be off on your own as a mentor
> - I require IRC interviews with students (we've found this exceedingly
> helpful in the past)
> - We require weekly check-ins with the students
>
> Beyond that I'm pretty flexible.  I'm going to get some of my ideas up,
> sounds like Michael's got one as well.  Hopefully there's some more
> ideas out there!


I added an idea, let me know if it seems suitable.

Regards,
Simon

>
>
> - John
>
> On 02/08/2015 01:12 PM, Michael Jones wrote:
> > John,
> >
> > This will not be broadly interesting, but… just in case there is another crazy out there...
> >
> > If any student wanted to work on an open source Haskell PMBus Library for MinnowBoardMax running Ubuntu, I’d be happy to mentor. I have working starter code I can donate so they don’t have to start from scratch, and documentation on how to build up a system, install the compilers, etc.
> >
> > I am sure there aren’t too many functional programmers that are into embedded stuff, but if there is one out there, I am happy to mentor. Perhaps some student that is into robotics at a school with some functional programming classes and research going on. Some previous Haskell experience is a must.
> >
> > Google does some functional programming, so they might have some interest. They also use PMBus.
> >
> > Supporting projects might be to implement SMBALERT driver support for Atom. I think there is SMBALERT support for iMX. Haskell does not support ARM well, so completing SMBus support for Atom helps.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On Feb 8, 2015, at 12:15 AM, John Hawley <john.hawley at intel.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hey Everyone,
> >>
> >> So Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is fast approaching, and I wanted to
> >> gauge interest in having the MinnowBoard project participate.  There's
> >> two things that we would need to start figuring out about now: who is
> >> interested in mentoring a student, and what projects do we have that
> >> students could work on.  Some general ideas I've had that might be of
> >> interest:
> >>
> >> - Integrate iPXE into the firmware load for the MinnowBoard MAX
> >>      Means pulling the existing Realtek driver out, integrating iPXE
> >>      into the existing Tianocore build system and making sure that
> >>      all works
> >>
> >> - Work on a kernel proposal to help make GPIO numbering more stable by
> >> adding dsdt support and alternative names for gpios
> >>
> >> We've actually got a fairly broad range of things we could mentor for,
> >> it's mostly a question of - what are people interested in seeing get
> >> done for making MinnowBoard easier / better to use, and are their folks
> >> interested in stepping up and mentoring?
> >>
> >> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley
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