Configuration GUI

Mentors: Amar Takhar, Chris Johns and Thomas Nagy

Students: Anand Krishnan Prakash

Status: Working on GUI draft

Introduction: Create a cross platform GUI for configuring RTEMS (waf version).

Currently, I will be working on building a GUI for configuring the build time parameters for RTEMS - such as BSP, networking etc.

So Far

• Proposed 2 drafts, which can be found at my blog (link given below).
• Options have been completely grouped into: General, Build, Network and Storage Settings (just a tentative list)
• Currently working on building menus for the GUI (wxPython3).
• Amar has modified rtems_config to py/waf and py/config to provide a single entry point to py/ and is writing functions to fetch necessary information.
• Build the basic "view" layout of the GUI -> with menus and multilayered tabs.
• Add functions to get options to GUI
• Display Boolean, Integer and String options

Future Work

• Display StringList? options
• Create the config.cfg file
• Range checking of the entered values for the options. Finding out patterns in the upper and lower bounds (eg: a min-max range for integers etc.) to make the work easier.
• The configuration parameters in confdefs.h would also be converted to options for the waf version.

References

• ​More about the Project
• ​Blog
• ​Git Repo