On Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 3:57 PM Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org> wrote: > 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/). >
+1 Just to be clear, I am not discouraging this as a project. I just think it needs some homework to.make sure it is feasible. > > Chris >
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