On Mon, Mar 11, 2019 at 3:24 AM Joel Sherrill <j...@rtems.org> wrote:
> > > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 3:57 PM Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org> wrote: > >> On 11/3/19 9:06 am, Joel Sherrill wrote: >> > On Sun, Mar 10, 2019, 2:29 PM Chris Johns <chr...@rtems.org >> > <mailto:chr...@rtems.org>> wrote: >> > >> > On 6/3/19 10:23 pm, Amaan Cheval wrote: >> > > I'm not sure if the project is open, but if it is, I'd be willing >> to >> > co-mentor. >> > >> > Thanks. >> > >> > > >> > > On Wed, Mar 6, 2019, 2:45 PM Vaibhav Gupta < >> vaibhavgupt...@gmail.com >> > <mailto:vaibhavgupt...@gmail.com> >> > > <mailto:vaibhavgupt...@gmail.com <mailto:vaibhavgupt...@gmail.com>>> >> wrote: >> > > >> > > I was exploring for more open projects and found the >> following one. >> > > >> > > - Port V8 Javascript Engine : >> > > https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Projects/Open/V8 >> > > >> > > Not much information is given about it and even the above >> link was >> > modified >> > > in 2015. I want to know if the project is open for GSOC 2019? >> > > If it is open, then It would be great to know if someone >> would like to >> > > mentor it. I would like to discuss further on it. >> > >> > I suggest you create a ticket for this project like the other GSoC >> tickets we >> > have and add some additional details .. >> > >> > - Please list the archs supported, this is viewable in the src tree. >> > - Add something about needing Chromium's depot_tools. I see FreeBSD >> is not >> > listed but chromium is available on FreeBSD. >> > - Investigate the build system and if it is possible to >> cross-compile. >> > >> > I'm a bit concerned that it may require things RTEMS does not have. >> >> If it cannot be cross-compiled it would be hard to maintain long term. >> >> > Does it mmap in ways we don't support? >> >> I also wondered. There is an abstraction in the POSIX platform code for >> mmap so >> a grep would let us know. >> >> > I doubt it forks new processes but that has to be answered. >> >> Yeap. >> >> > Some basic research plus an attempt to compile it for RTEMS with >> > problem sections disabled is a good first step of any porting >> evaluation. >> >> Yes. >> >> > FWIW I looked at porting the PDF viewer from chromium to RTEMS. Their >> build >> > system seemed quite complex. >> >> Firefox uses a js project held in github ( >> https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/). >> > > +1 > > Just to be clear, I am not discouraging this as a project. I just think it > needs some homework to.make sure it is feasible. > I will check the things. > >> Chris >> >
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