On 11/3/19 9:06 am, Joel Sherrill wrote: > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 2:29 PM Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org > <mailto:chr...@rtems.org>> wrote: > > On 6/3/19 10:23 pm, Amaan Cheval wrote: > > I'm not sure if the project is open, but if it is, I'd be willing to > co-mentor. > > Thanks. > > > > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 2:45 PM Vaibhav Gupta <vaibhavgupt...@gmail.com > <mailto:vaibhavgupt...@gmail.com> > > <mailto:vaibhavgupt...@gmail.com <mailto:vaibhavgupt...@gmail.com>>> > wrote: > > > > I was exploring for more open projects and found the following one. > > > > - Port V8 Javascript Engine : > > https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Projects/Open/V8 > > > > Not much information is given about it and even the above link was > modified > > in 2015. I want to know if the project is open for GSOC 2019? > > If it is open, then It would be great to know if someone would like > to > > mentor it. I would like to discuss further on it. > > I suggest you create a ticket for this project like the other GSoC > tickets we > have and add some additional details .. > > - Please list the archs supported, this is viewable in the src tree. > - Add something about needing Chromium's depot_tools. I see FreeBSD is not > listed but chromium is available on FreeBSD. > - Investigate the build system and if it is possible to cross-compile. > > I'm a bit concerned that it may require things RTEMS does not have.
If it cannot be cross-compiled it would be hard to maintain long term. > Does it mmap in ways we don't support? I also wondered. There is an abstraction in the POSIX platform code for mmap so a grep would let us know. > I doubt it forks new processes but that has to be answered. Yeap. > Some basic research plus an attempt to compile it for RTEMS with > problem sections disabled is a good first step of any porting evaluation. Yes. > FWIW I looked at porting the PDF viewer from chromium to RTEMS. Their build > system seemed quite complex. Firefox uses a js project held in github (https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/). Chris _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
