[MinnowBoard] GSoC 2015 - Is there interest?

[Michael Jones]

Simon,

Seems reasonable to me.

Mike

On Feb 19, 2015, at 12:19 PM, Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:

> 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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