AW: Suggest some project idea for our contribution to eCos community

AW: Suggest some project idea for our contribution to eCos community

[Neundorf, Alexander]

> Von: Andrew Lunn [mailto:andrew@lunn.ch]
>
> Come on Alex. These are three final year Computer Engineering students
> with 100 hours each. The only thing you listed that would be possible
> is the ftp-server. 

Well, they asked for work ;-)

> Two more sensible suggestions:
> 
> There was recently two contributions of a pipe device, which
> implements something very similar to Unix FIFO's and a pseudo tty
> device. Im in the process of cleaning them up and committing
> them. What would be useful is to write an ssh daemon and telnet daemon
> which sits on top of the master side of the pty. The problem with this
> tasks is there is little to do with actually embedded hardware. So you
> supervisor may reject the ideas. 

How about these:

-implement unicode for microwindows
-I heard that there must have been some GUI memory layout tool in ecos 1.x which hasn't made it to 2.x, work on this one
-work on kernel instrumentation, the docs say it will be improved and host-side tools will be implemented somewhen in the future, but it hasn't happened yet (AFAIK)

Bye
Alex

Re: Suggest some project idea for our contribution to eCos community

[Andrew Lunn]

> How about these:
> 
> -implement unicode for microwindows

Not really an embedded systems project, more of a computer graphics
project.

> -I heard that there must have been some GUI memory layout tool in
> ecos 1.x which hasn't made it to 2.x, work on this one

Humm, that could be useful, although i suspect it will be painfull to
adopt. Its been dead for too long and i many of the current .mlt files
are broken.

> -work on kernel instrumentation, the docs say it will be improved
> and host-side tools will be implemented somewhen in the future, but
> it hasn't happened yet (AFAIK)

There is already a very basic tool. I wrote it. But a less cryptic
tool would definiately help. This would also give a good insight as to
what actually goes on inside an RTOS. I like this idea. Take a look at
http://ecos.sourceware.org/docs-latest/user-guide/kernel-instrumentation.html

and 

http://ecos.sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/ecos/packages/kernel/current/host/instr/readme.txt?rev=1.1&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=ecos

        Andrew

Re: Suggest some project idea for our contribution to eCos community

[Alex Schuilenburg]

Andrew Lunn wrote:
[...]
>>-I heard that there must have been some GUI memory layout tool in
>>ecos 1.x which hasn't made it to 2.x, work on this one
> 
> 
> Humm, that could be useful, although i suspect it will be painfull to
> adopt. Its been dead for too long and i many of the current .mlt files
> are broken.

There was a reason this was not carried over to 2.0. It is also a lot 
more work than the 7.5 weeks offered so unfortunately this had to be 
dropped.

It is still on our eCosCentric todo list, though at a low priority.

-- Alex

AW: Suggest some project idea for our contribution to eCos community

[Neundorf, Alexander]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: ecos-devel-owner@sources.redhat.com
> [mailto:ecos-devel-owner@sources.redhat.com]Im Auftrag von Devendra
> 
> We are a group of 3 students studying in the final year of Computer
> Engineering. We are looking for some smaller 
> project/assignment for our
> Embedded Systems course. Since we have a moderate working knowledge of
> eCos and its internals we would like to do some eCos 
> development. We can
> spend around 100 hours per person for this task. Could you please
> suggest us some project ideas?

Bluetooth, SD-card (some simplified specs are available freely), vfat, ftp-server, smb-server/client, maybe CORBA (ACO/TAO), USB host/OTG support, WLAN, ....
If you need more ideas, let me know :-)

Bye
Alex