Re: GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-13 Thread Amaan Cheval
I like the sound of that! One quick question. > ...to get it running on qemu. Real HW would be a sanity check. What kind of real hardware would I need? I do have an x86 64-bit processor as my primary computer, and likely one on spare / abandoned devices too (though I'll need to confirm). Is there

Re: GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-13 Thread Joel Sherrill
On Mar 13, 2018 1:36 AM, "Sebastian Huber" < sebastian.hu...@embedded-brains.de> wrote: On 12/03/18 21:20, Gedare Bloom wrote: > Since I'm pretty keen on RTEMS, I think I'll have a 2nd proposal too, which >> I'll decide and discuss with you guys soon, hopefully! (Perhaps the >> tracing >> or the

Re: GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-12 Thread Sebastian Huber
On 12/03/18 21:20, Gedare Bloom wrote: Since I'm pretty keen on RTEMS, I think I'll have a 2nd proposal too, which I'll decide and discuss with you guys soon, hopefully! (Perhaps the tracing or the APA scheduling projects). That's fine. I don't think APA by itself is enough for the summer.

Re: GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-12 Thread Joel Sherrill
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:20 PM, Gedare Bloom wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Amaan Cheval > wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:53 PM Gedare Bloom wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:01 AM, Sebastian Huber > >> wrote: > >> > On 10/03/18 18:02, Amaan Cheval wrote: > >> >> > >

Re: GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-12 Thread Gedare Bloom
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Amaan Cheval wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:53 PM Gedare Bloom wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:01 AM, Sebastian Huber >> wrote: >> > On 10/03/18 18:02, Amaan Cheval wrote: >> >> >> >> - Improve RTEMS SMP[3] >> >> >> >> What kinds of improvements to SMP

Re: GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-12 Thread Amaan Cheval
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:53 PM Gedare Bloom wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:01 AM, Sebastian Huber > wrote: > > On 10/03/18 18:02, Amaan Cheval wrote: > >> > >> - Improve RTEMS SMP[3] > >> > >> What kinds of improvements to SMP are we considering? > > > > > > The SMP support is quite complet

Re: GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-12 Thread Gedare Bloom
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:01 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote: > On 10/03/18 18:02, Amaan Cheval wrote: >> >> - Improve RTEMS SMP[3] >> >> What kinds of improvements to SMP are we considering? > > > The SMP support is quite complete now. In general, an independent review is > required, but this is probab

Re: GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-12 Thread Sebastian Huber
On 10/03/18 18:02, Amaan Cheval wrote: - Improve RTEMS SMP[3] What kinds of improvements to SMP are we considering? The SMP support is quite complete now. In general, an independent review is required, but this is probably not a GSoC project. Some areas in the implementation are a bit too co

GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-10 Thread Amaan Cheval
Hi! I've introduced myself in the past, but just to reiterate; I'm a final year Bachelor's in Engineering student at Thakur College of Engineering, in Mumbai. I work part-time on an Intel x86 emulator, written primarily in C and JavaScript (that's right :P) - we also have a JIT compiler for x86->W

Re: GSOC project - Rump Kernels

2016-03-19 Thread Hesham Almatary
b.com/rumpkernel/wiki/wiki/Tutorial:-Getting-started On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 3:18 AM, Gedare Bloom wrote: > Hesham has done some initial work on this and wrote a blog post about > it: > http://heshamelmatary.blogspot.com/2015/02/thoughts-on-supporting-rump-kernels-on.html > > You sho

Re: GSOC project - Rump Kernels

2016-03-15 Thread Gedare Bloom
Hesham has done some initial work on this and wrote a blog post about it: http://heshamelmatary.blogspot.com/2015/02/thoughts-on-supporting-rump-kernels-on.html You should review that, and hopefully he can weigh in with some thoughts as well. Gedare On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 5:59 AM, Jason Wong

GSOC project - Rump Kernels

2016-03-15 Thread Jason Wong
Hi, I am a student studying computer science in Uppsala university and I would like to participate in a GSOC project. The rump kernels project looks interesting to me. But I am not sure what is this project going to to in details. Because the goal "to implement the hypercalls interface"

Re: Rump Kernels

2015-01-23 Thread Gedare Bloom
Since this is open source, and I suggested it... https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Projects/RumpKernels On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 6:32 PM, Joel Sherrill wrote: > > On 1/22/2015 3:32 PM, Gedare Bloom wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Has anyone taken a look at Rump Kernels, and f

Re: Rump Kernels

2015-01-22 Thread Joel Sherrill
On 1/22/2015 3:32 PM, Gedare Bloom wrote: > Hi, > > Has anyone taken a look at Rump Kernels, and feasibility to use any of > it with RTEMS? http://rumpkernel.org/ > > Rump Kernels encapsulate parts of the NetBSD kernel that can be reused > in other OS kernels. The obvio

Rump Kernels

2015-01-22 Thread Gedare Bloom
Hi, Has anyone taken a look at Rump Kernels, and feasibility to use any of it with RTEMS? http://rumpkernel.org/ Rump Kernels encapsulate parts of the NetBSD kernel that can be reused in other OS kernels. The obvious big wins come from device drivers, but also maintenance efforts are much