Re: Gsoc 2018 Posix Compliance and Introduction

[Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems dot org>]

On Thu, May 3, 2018, 1:21 PM Salil Sirotia <salil.sirotia@gmail.com> wrote:

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> >   Hello Users
>> >>
>> >> This is Salil Sirotia, an M.Tech Scholar from IIT(ISM) Dhanbad. I
>> applied
>> >> for GSOC 2018 and got selected. My project is POSIX Compliance where I
>> >> have
>> >> to implement some libraries, methods and port the code to
>> Newlib-Cygwin.
>> >>
>> >> POSIX stands for Portable Operating System Interface for uni-X. Posix
>> >> Compliance allows us to port the source code that is running on one
>> >> machine
>> >> , can be run on another machine. This Project deals with the
>> >> implementation
>> >> of the subset of functions that are defined in POSIX 1003_1 standard,
>> Due
>> >> to physical resource constraints, some real-time systems like the small
>> >> embedded system needs a limited set of operating system functionality.
>> For
>> >> these type of systems, it is necessary that the standard allow the
>> >> implementation to support only a particular subset of POSIX functions.
>> >> POSIX profiles defined in FACE Technical Standards, designed for
>> avionics
>> >> system verses POSIX in RTEMS where some functions are missing. These
>> >> missing function need to be implemented. For the same I will use
>> FreeBSD,
>> >> NetBSD, POSIX 1003_1 as a refrence and IEEE std 1003.1 TM 2008.
>> >> I will add the support of mentioned library in my Proposal to newlib
>> as a
>> >> part of GSOC-2018.
>> >>
>> >> This summer I will be accomplishing these task what I have mentioned
>> in my
>> >> Proposal
>> >>
>> >
>> > This is one of my pet projects and I look forward to you making great
>> > progress.
>> >
>> >>What do you plan to do first?
>> >
>> > Hello joel
>> >
>> >  I will definitely make great progress and will try to contribute to
>> this
>> > community as long as possible. Porting memcpy method for sparc to
>> newlib is
>> > my first priority and I have done some reasearch on that. I got the
>> third
>> > party sources for memcpy method. Once the code for memcpy will be
>> reviewed
>> > and pushed to newlib-cygwin repo. I will manually add the patch to RSB
>> and
>> > will work on test suite of memcpy in RTEMS 5.
>> >
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>> >Great. I would look forward to seeing >a patch from you of memcpy
>> >method to newlib.
>>   >Did you find any third party sources >for porting this method to
>> newlib?
>>
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>     Hello Aditya
>     Yes I found a third party source for            porting this method to
> newlib I will            discuss with mentors regarding that          in
> coming days.
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Was it the one I emailed you privately details about? If not, the license
needs a review

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