RTEMS Workout at FOSS.IN

This is the standard workout proposal template provided by the FOSS.IN team.

Proposers

Aanjhan Ranganathan and Santosh G. Vattam.

Aanjhan Ranganathan is a Masters Student at Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne(EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. He worked on RTEMS as part of Google Summer of Code 2009. His project was ​MMU Support for RTEMS and he was mentored by Thomas Doerfler. He has been a part of FOSS.IN since 2005 and presented a talk at FOSS.IN last year as well.

Santosh G. Vattam worked on RTEMS Testing as part of Google Summer of Code 2009. His project was ​Coverage Analysis for RTEMS and he was mentored by Joel Sherrill. He has been a part of FOSS.IN since 2008.

Purpose

Pre-requisites

Hardware/Software?

• Laptop with GNU/Linux installed on it (preferably a RedHat/Fedora? based distro).
• ​Virtual Machine images will be provided for development. So installing ​VMWare Player or ​VirtualBox aprior will come in handy.

Brainware

• Programming Language: C
• Basic bash Shell scripting
• Interest and high motivation to work on embedded systems (both with arch/board simulators and real boards)
• Loads of patience (for debugging, debugging embedded systems is not trivial).

Links to overall design/architecture

# Most documentation is available in ​Online Docs # ​RTEMS University - Presentations on Introduction, Getting Started etc.

Pre-event Preparation

• Install and configure a Virtual Machine. Virtual Machine images will be provided.
• If VM is not preferred by the participant then one can build the RTEMS toolchain and then build RTEMS.
  • Build instructions for the toolchain for Debian/Ubuntu? - ​here
  • Or for a ​Quick Start using prebuilt tools
• Run the custom "​Hello World" program to confirm your build is fine.
• Read basic design docs of RTEMS.

Tasks

• Getting MMU support code from GSOC project cleaned up, add more features as listed on "Future work" section of the GSOC report
• Improving code coverage with libcsupport included. We shall be focusing on the following BSPs:
  • pc386
  • uC5282

since these BSPs work on Free simulators that have coverage enabled and the reports can be generated on the spot quickly.

• Some basic UI stuff - E.g.: Some improvements to Roxana's work.
• Clean ups and documentation.
• Fixing easy/medium bugs chosen from the RTEMS Bugzilla.
• Writing a UI in python for Coverage analysis.
• Maybe writing a device driver.

Existing work

Getting in touch

• RTEMS Users Mailing list
• Internet Relay Chat #rtems @ freenode.net
• Individual for FOSS.IN Workout aanjhan at gmail dot com and vattam dot santosh at @ gmail dot com

Participants

• Aanjhan Ranganathan
• Madhusudhan C S
• Santosh Vattam
• [add your name here]