Re: GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-13 Thread Amaan Cheval
I like the sound of that! One quick question. > ...to get it running on qemu. Real HW would be a sanity check. What kind of real hardware would I need? I do have an x86 64-bit processor as my primary computer, and likely one on spare / abandoned devices too (though I'll need to confirm). Is

Re: GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-13 Thread Joel Sherrill
On Mar 13, 2018 1:36 AM, "Sebastian Huber" < sebastian.hu...@embedded-brains.de> wrote: On 12/03/18 21:20, Gedare Bloom wrote: > Since I'm pretty keen on RTEMS, I think I'll have a 2nd proposal too, which >> I'll decide and discuss with you guys soon, hopefully! (Perhaps the >> tracing >> or the

Re: GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-12 Thread Joel Sherrill
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:20 PM, Gedare Bloom wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Amaan Cheval > wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:53 PM Gedare Bloom wrote: > > > >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:01 AM, Sebastian Huber > >>

Re: GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-12 Thread Gedare Bloom
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 12:41 PM, Amaan Cheval wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:53 PM Gedare Bloom wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:01 AM, Sebastian Huber >> wrote: >> > On 10/03/18 18:02, Amaan Cheval wrote:

Re: GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-12 Thread Amaan Cheval
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 9:53 PM Gedare Bloom wrote: > On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:01 AM, Sebastian Huber > wrote: > > On 10/03/18 18:02, Amaan Cheval wrote: > >> > >> - Improve RTEMS SMP[3] > >> > >> What kinds of improvements to SMP are we

Re: GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-12 Thread Gedare Bloom
On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:01 AM, Sebastian Huber wrote: > On 10/03/18 18:02, Amaan Cheval wrote: >> >> - Improve RTEMS SMP[3] >> >> What kinds of improvements to SMP are we considering? > > > The SMP support is quite complete now. In general, an independent

Re: GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-12 Thread Sebastian Huber
On 10/03/18 18:02, Amaan Cheval wrote: - Improve RTEMS SMP[3] What kinds of improvements to SMP are we considering? The SMP support is quite complete now. In general, an independent review is required, but this is probably not a GSoC project. Some areas in the implementation are a bit too

GSoC 2018 (x86_64, pc386, SMP improvements, rump kernels)

2018-03-10 Thread Amaan Cheval
Hi! I've introduced myself in the past, but just to reiterate; I'm a final year Bachelor's in Engineering student at Thakur College of Engineering, in Mumbai. I work part-time on an Intel x86 emulator, written primarily in C and JavaScript (that's right :P) - we also have a JIT compiler for