Re: Gsoc 2018 Posix Compliance and Introduction

[Salil Sirotia <salil dot sirotia at gmail dot com>]

>   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.
> >
>
> >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?
>

    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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