Simon, Seems reasonable to me.
Mike On Feb 19, 2015, at 12:19 PM, Simon Glass <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi John, > > On 10 February 2015 at 19:29, John Hawley <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> In a more general sense I've gone ahead and started the bare bones page at >> >> http://elinux.org/Minnowboard:GSoC2015 >> >> if you've got an idea and are willing to mentor, add it and talk to me >> about it. I have some extra requirements on how I run GSoC orgs: >> >> - We generally group mentor, so you'll never be off on your own as a mentor >> - I require IRC interviews with students (we've found this exceedingly >> helpful in the past) >> - We require weekly check-ins with the students >> >> Beyond that I'm pretty flexible. I'm going to get some of my ideas up, >> sounds like Michael's got one as well. Hopefully there's some more >> ideas out there! > > > I added an idea, let me know if it seems suitable. > > Regards, > Simon > >> >> >> - John >> >> On 02/08/2015 01:12 PM, Michael Jones wrote: >>> John, >>> >>> This will not be broadly interesting, but… just in case there is another >>> crazy out there... >>> >>> If any student wanted to work on an open source Haskell PMBus Library for >>> MinnowBoardMax running Ubuntu, I’d be happy to mentor. I have working >>> starter code I can donate so they don’t have to start from scratch, and >>> documentation on how to build up a system, install the compilers, etc. >>> >>> I am sure there aren’t too many functional programmers that are into >>> embedded stuff, but if there is one out there, I am happy to mentor. >>> Perhaps some student that is into robotics at a school with some functional >>> programming classes and research going on. Some previous Haskell experience >>> is a must. >>> >>> Google does some functional programming, so they might have some interest. >>> They also use PMBus. >>> >>> Supporting projects might be to implement SMBALERT driver support for Atom. >>> I think there is SMBALERT support for iMX. Haskell does not support ARM >>> well, so completing SMBus support for Atom helps. >>> >>> Mike >>> >>> On Feb 8, 2015, at 12:15 AM, John Hawley <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hey Everyone, >>>> >>>> So Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is fast approaching, and I wanted to >>>> gauge interest in having the MinnowBoard project participate. There's >>>> two things that we would need to start figuring out about now: who is >>>> interested in mentoring a student, and what projects do we have that >>>> students could work on. Some general ideas I've had that might be of >>>> interest: >>>> >>>> - Integrate iPXE into the firmware load for the MinnowBoard MAX >>>> Means pulling the existing Realtek driver out, integrating iPXE >>>> into the existing Tianocore build system and making sure that >>>> all works >>>> >>>> - Work on a kernel proposal to help make GPIO numbering more stable by >>>> adding dsdt support and alternative names for gpios >>>> >>>> We've actually got a fairly broad range of things we could mentor for, >>>> it's mostly a question of - what are people interested in seeing get >>>> done for making MinnowBoard easier / better to use, and are their folks >>>> interested in stepping up and mentoring? >>>> >>>> - John 'Warthog9' Hawley >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> elinux-MinnowBoard mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.elinux.org/mailman/listinfo/elinux-minnowboard >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> elinux-MinnowBoard mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.elinux.org/mailman/listinfo/elinux-minnowboard >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> elinux-MinnowBoard mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.elinux.org/mailman/listinfo/elinux-minnowboard > _______________________________________________ > elinux-MinnowBoard mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.elinux.org/mailman/listinfo/elinux-minnowboard _______________________________________________ elinux-MinnowBoard mailing list [email protected] http://lists.elinux.org/mailman/listinfo/elinux-minnowboard
