[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-05-16 Thread Anastasia Klimchuk
Hi Aarya, Things are going well, we (Org Admins) have submitted all the "paperwork" for the projects and are now waiting for the official announcement! Nico is absolutely correct, announcement will be on May 20. We are waiting for it as much as you ;) -- Anastasia.

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-05-16 Thread Nico Huber
Hi Aarya, On 16.05.22 13:40, Aarya Chaumal wrote: > Just wanted to know how things are going with the GSOC selection process. > Sorry if I'm being too eager :) it's not up to us right now ;) Google will announce the accepted projects on May 20 [1]. Nico [1]

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-05-16 Thread Aarya Chaumal
Hi, Just wanted to know how things are going with the GSOC selection process. Sorry if I'm being too eager :) Aarya. On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 2:47 PM Anastasia Klimchuk wrote: > Aarya, > > This is amazing news, I am super happy to get your project proposal! > It is nice to have you with us :) >

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-04-17 Thread Anastasia Klimchuk
Aarya, This is amazing news, I am super happy to get your project proposal! It is nice to have you with us :) We have long public holidays here (in AU), but I had a quick look and the proposal looks fine. Once the holidays are over, we, together with mentor(s), will go through the proposal

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-04-16 Thread Felix Singer
Hi Aarya, On Sat, 2022-04-16 at 00:52 +0530, Aarya Chaumal wrote: > I submitted my proposal for "optimize erase function selection" > yesterday after which I received an acknowledgment mail saying "Your > project proposal for GSoC 2022 to Flashrom has been submitted. > Mentors will review your

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-04-15 Thread Aarya Chaumal
Anastasia and Felix, I submitted my proposal for "optimize erase function selection" yesterday after which I received an acknowledgment mail saying "Your project proposal for GSoC 2022 to Flashrom has been submitted. Mentors will review your proposal and possibly contact you with questions." Just

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-04-11 Thread Nico Huber
Hi Aarya, On 11.04.22 13:46, Aarya Chaumal wrote: > In the "Optimizing Erase Function Selection" project what is considered a > minimum level of success. I think it should be that the resulting average > erase time should be similar to the theoretical value based on the > implemented algorithm

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-04-11 Thread Aarya Chaumal
not make much > sense if finally there is no match you and the project). > > > > Regards, > > > > Simon > > > > > > *Von:* Aarya Chaumal > *Gesendet:* Donnerstag, 31. März 2022 23:00 > *An:* Buhrow, Simon > *Cc:* Anastasia Klimchuk ; flashrom@f

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-04-01 Thread Thomas Heijligen
Hi Aarya, in most scenarios you operate only on one region of the layout. Then overlapping regions doesn't matter. Also overlapping regions can be useful when dealing with nested structures. E.g. an Intel IFD image and the BIOS region contains a coreboot fmap. All in all the user of the layout

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-04-01 Thread Buhrow, Simon
022 23:00 An: Buhrow, Simon Cc: Anastasia Klimchuk ; flashrom@flashrom.org Betreff: Re: [flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC Hi Simon, I tried to change the selection of the erase function to make it use the erase whole chip function and performed the erase operation for

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-31 Thread Aarya Chaumal
discussions just > let us know. > > > > Regards, > > > > Simon > > > > > > *Von:* Aarya Chaumal > *Gesendet:* Samstag, 26. März 2022 06:45 > *An:* Buhrow, Simon > *Cc:* Anastasia Klimchuk ; flashrom@flashrom.org > *Betreff:* Re: [flashrom

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-31 Thread Aarya Chaumal
Hi Thomas, Can overlapping regions in the layout file cause problems or lead to ambiguous results. If yes, then I think we should do the checks. Aarya. On Tue, Mar 29, 2022 at 2:48 PM Thomas Heijligen wrote: > > > On 26 March 2022 05:44:56 WET, Aarya Chaumal > wrote: > Hi Aarya, > > >I

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-31 Thread Aarya Chaumal
Hi Anastasia, Thanks for the clarification :) Aarya. On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 12:32 PM Anastasia Klimchuk wrote: > I realised one thing that I need to answer: > > > I have completed a rough draft for my proposal, can someone review it? > > So just to be very very clear: the answer is no, we

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-31 Thread Anastasia Klimchuk
I realised one thing that I need to answer: > I have completed a rough draft for my proposal, can someone review it? So just to be very very clear: the answer is no, we won't be pre-reviewing your proposal(s). You will submit them to the gsoc website, they will go through the system and then

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-29 Thread Thomas Heijligen
On 26 March 2022 05:44:56 WET, Aarya Chaumal wrote: Hi Aarya, >I performed (read, write, erase) on specific regions of the flash using the >layout file. Do the regions in the layout file have to be exclusive or they >can overlap? A flashrom layout region is just a name with a start and end

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-29 Thread Buhrow, Simon
Chaumal Gesendet: Samstag, 26. März 2022 06:45 An: Buhrow, Simon Cc: Anastasia Klimchuk ; flashrom@flashrom.org Betreff: Re: [flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC Hi Simon, I performed (read, write, erase) on specific regions of the flash using the layout file. Do the regions

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-28 Thread Felix Singer
On Mon, 2022-03-28 at 10:49 +0530, Aarya Chaumal wrote: > Anastasia, > > Thanks for the clarifications. I'll be writing the proposals for both > the projects and leave it up to you to decide which one I should do > :) That's good anyway. If we give project x to someone else, then you still have

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-27 Thread Aarya Chaumal
Anastasia, Thanks for the clarifications. I'll be writing the proposals for both the projects and leave it up to you to decide which one I should do :) A few more questions: How much minimum time do you expect to be put into the project(daily, weekly)? Currently, I feel I can give 5 hours every

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-27 Thread Anastasia Klimchuk
I can add a few bits from me. You can only do one project as gsoc, because the rules say so: https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/rules See 7.3.b The rules also say that you can submit up to 3 proposals, but only one of them we can select. In theory, you can write 2 proposals for 2 projects that

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-26 Thread Felix Singer
On Sat, 2022-03-26 at 10:57 +0530, Aarya Chaumal wrote: [...] > As I said before I am interested in "Optimize Erase-Function > Selection" and "Fix Endianness Issues" (I still cant decide which one > to choose, kinda wanna do both if possible). Glad you like them! Though, you can't do both during

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-26 Thread Aarya Chaumal
> > Simon > > > > > > > > > > *Von:* Aarya Chaumal > *Gesendet:* Montag, 21. März 2022 22:16 > *An:* Buhrow, Simon > *Cc:* Anastasia Klimchuk ; flashrom@flashrom.org > *Betreff:* Re: [flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC > >

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-25 Thread Aarya Chaumal
Hi Anastasia, Thanks for the merge (Feel great contributing to flashrom). Thanks for helping me better understand flashrom and the projects for GSoC. As I said before I am interested in "Optimize Erase-Function Selection" and "Fix Endianness Issues" (I still cant decide which one to choose, kinda

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-24 Thread Anastasia Klimchuk
Hi Aarya, I fully agree with Simon, you are doing great! I have just submitted the first one out of your patches, congrats! Well done :) Few more of them seem to be almost ready, just some comments about commit messages need to be resolved. Don't be surprised that you are getting so many

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-24 Thread Buhrow, Simon
Klimchuk ; flashrom@flashrom.org Betreff: Re: [flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC Hi Simon, I got my hardware yesterday and I played around with it and flashrom. I also studied the code flow for the erase functions. I saw that flashrom tries different erase functions given

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-21 Thread Aarya Chaumal
thoughts about making progress without proposing a purchase, > just let Aarya know. > > > > Regards, > > > > Simon > > > > > > *Von:* Anastasia Klimchuk > *Gesendet:* Sonntag, 13. März 2022 07:45 > *An:* flashrom@flashrom.org; Aarya Chaumal > *Betre

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-19 Thread Thomas Heijligen
Hi Aarya, Yes, that is the plan. There is an open patch[1] in Gerrit to add deserialization functions for endian specific encoding. Parsing data to a struct can then look like this: struct data { uint16_t a; uint32_t b; }; void*

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-19 Thread Aarya Chaumal
Hi Thomas, Thank you for your quick reply on the "fixing endianness issues" project. I saw that in the code that functions flashrom_layout_read_from_* only work for little-endian machines and return an error code otherwise. Also, the function flashrom_layout_parse_fmap is defined for

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-17 Thread Thomas Heijligen
Hi Aarya, Thank you for contributing to flashrom. The merge of a patch sometimes needs just time, even if it has +2. The topic "fixing endianness issues" consists of tasks to rewrite code that assumes a specific endianness. For example, the flashrom fmap parser just maps packed c structs onto

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-17 Thread Thomas Heijligen
Hi Aarya, Thank you for contributing to flashrom. The merge of a patch sometimes needs just time, even if it has +2. The topic "fixing endianness issues" consists of tasks to rewrite code that assumes a specific endianness. For example, the flashrom fmap parser just maps packed c structs onto

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-16 Thread Buhrow, Simon
rom.org; Aarya Chaumal Betreff: [flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC Aarya, Thank you so much for your patches, awesome work! Don't worry about merging for now. Merging almost never happens immediately. Reviewers will come back to the patches, check that everything is f

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-12 Thread Anastasia Klimchuk
Aarya, Thank you so much for your patches, awesome work! Don't worry about merging for now. Merging almost never happens immediately. Reviewers will come back to the patches, check that everything is fine, all the comments are resolved etc. If everything is alright, reviewers will approve and

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-12 Thread Aarya Chaumal
As suggested, I have been doing some of the easy projects till now and I have enjoyed it. I have submitted a few patches till now and some of them have gotten +2 code-reviews but still, they were not merged. Is there anything that is required to get the changes to be merged? Also, I have fixed

[flashrom] Re: Questions regarding Easy project and GSoC

2022-03-09 Thread Anastasia Klimchuk
Hello Aarya, Nice to meet you! I think I saw your question on the IRC channel, and someone replied, was that your question? Do you still need more info? Let us know if yes. Thanks! On Wed, Mar 9, 2022 at 2:42 PM Aarya Chaumal wrote: > Hello there, > > I hope you are well today when you