Howdy,
This is a bit of a housekeeping mail, but there is content here, so
please suffer through! :-)
1- Marko and I have talked about what we're going to look at next.
We're thinking the most important things are:
A- Bootloader, Upgrade, Image format, Target Download (Marko)
- Making it easy to download ELF files to a target board through
the newt tool (and having it start openocd/call out to GDB)
- Implementing image management and upgrade using the bootloader,
and flash filesystem, so it's easy to build an ELF file, generate an
image, download that image to the device, and have it boot that image.
- System configuration variable section: TLV'd configuration
variables that bootloader can use
B- Remote debugging & console interfaces (Sterling)
- We have the basic console interface up & running, but don't yet
have the ability to do things like transfer statistics, log files,
etc.
- We don't yet have a configuration subsystem that allows you to
boot & set configuration variables
- The goal is to add these functions to the OS, as well as develop
a tool that can fetch this data from the device and display it.
These are not going to be a part of the OS kernel, but instead
packages that work alongside the OS and can be installed through the
newt tool. We'll be working through these elements for the next
couple of weeks, and sending designs / thoughts for comments as we
implement them. If anybody has an interest in working on these,
please let us know, as we can perhaps divvy up some of this work and
it should be a fun set of project(s).
2- There are a ton of things that we think it would be good to get
done, that are not on this list. My thought was that we should
declare open season on JIRA for the next week or two, and have
everyone file (a) what they don't like and (b) what they would like
and their idea of priority. Then we can go through and organize this
list / discuss how we think it should be prioritized on the dev list
(P0, P1, P2, etc.) I think as a group we'll want to discuss priority
on dev@, but its going to be more convenient to have everything stored
in JIRA once we start picking off items.
Thoughts? Does this sound good to folks?
Sterling
