Hi Christian Helmuth, Sorry for my late reply. I've been quite busy these days. Thanks for telling me this task, I think it would be of great help as an initial step. And yes, I would like to try this hack. I would first try to read the code and the RTC spec. And I would appreciate it if you could provide me with your precious guidance.
Cheers, Zhongze Liu 2017-03-02 17:11 GMT+08:00 Christian Helmuth <christian.helm...@genode-labs.com>: > Hello Zhongze Liu, > > On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 11:58:41PM +0800, Sky Liu wrote: >> BTW, do you have any suggestions on small related tasks that I can take in >> prior to my formal application for the GSoC project? I think committing >> small patches would be a great starting point to getting familiar with the >> Genode codebase. > > While reading your question I recalled the missing feature in our x86 > RTC driver, which is only able to read out the current time from the > RTC. It would be really nice if the driver could also update the time > on request. > > In detail, the feature has two aspects. First, the RTC driver has to > be extended by the code for setting the CMOS clock according to the > specification. Further, it needs to provide means to update the clock > on request. The method of choice is the XML config of the component > which could be extended by an XML node for the clock update. To > support this feature the component code has to request and parse the > config ROM initially but also register for updates of the > configuration during runtime. The addition of this feature would not > only help to get in touch with low-level driver code but also learn > about the interaction of the RTC component with the surrounding > system. > > If you're interested in this hacking project I'd be pleased to provide > further guidance. The current driver can be found in the Genode > sources at repos/os/src/drivers/rtc/spec/x86. > > Greets > -- > Christian Helmuth > Genode Labs > > https://www.genode-labs.com/ · https://genode.org/ > https://twitter.com/GenodeLabs · /ˈdʒiː.nəʊd/ > > Genode Labs GmbH · Amtsgericht Dresden · HRB 28424 · Sitz Dresden > Geschäftsführer: Dr.-Ing. Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most > engaging tech sites, SlashDot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot > _______________________________________________ > genode-main mailing list > genode-main@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/genode-main ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ genode-main mailing list genode-main@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/genode-main
