Hi. I have submitted my proposal for porting UEFI to BeagleBoneBlack at [1]. Please have a look and comment.
[1] http://www.google-melange.com/gsoc/proposal/review/student/google/gsoc2014/varad/5741031244955648 Thanks. Varad On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Grant Likely <grant.lik...@secretlab.ca> wrote: > Hi Varad, > > Please join IRC channel #linaro-gsoc if you haven't already. I'm 'gcl' > on that channel. For the AArch64 porting project you should be in > contact with Steve McIntyre. For the UEFI porting project you should > talk to Leif Lindholm (I can be involved with that one too). I've > included both of them in this reply. > > Google has opened the proposal period, so you can go ahead and submit > something, but I recommend talking to either of them beforehand or > running your proposal past them for review before applying. The stuff > we put on the wiki page is mostly suggestions, and we're not expecting > you to use the project description verbatim. You'll want to narrow it > down to something that can be completed over a summer. > > g. > > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Varad Gautam <varadgau...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi. I am interested in participating in Google Summer of Code - 2014 with >> Linaro and working on two of the ideas from Ideas page [1]: >> >> AArch64 porting of Free Software Packages - I am amazed going through the >> details mentioned at [2] about the use of assembly in packages. I would like >> to discover more, and figure out where I could contribute. >> >> Port UEFI to Low-Cost Embedded Platform - Although I have not used a system >> with UEFI before, I want to know more about the low level interaction that >> occurs between the kernel and the hardware. >> >> Please help me get started and gain a better understanding of what >> implementing each of these ideas would involve. >> >> About me: >> I can program with C, Perl, Python, Processing and Shell Scripts. I built a >> game for the Intel Perceptual Computing Challenge-2013 [3] and have >> experience with development for the Beagleboard and Pandaboard. I am >> currently reading Greg K-H's Linux Device Drivers to figure out how drivers >> work. I am also learning the x86 assembly language. I have been an open >> source user for a long time, and have a commit integrated into GNOME's >> Anjuta IDE [4] >> >> I recently worked with Red Hat on testing the effectiveness of random number >> generators on a virtual machine with qemu.[5] >> >> I also have a fair know-how of git. >> >> [1] https://wiki.linaro.org/SummerOfCode2014/ProjectIdeas >> [2] https://wiki.linaro.org/LEG/Engineering/OPTIM/Assembly >> [3] >> http://varadgautam.wordpress.com/2013/09/26/bender-a-game-using-the-intel-perceptual-sdk/ >> [4] >> https://git.gnome.org/browse/anjuta/commit/?id=eb10532632014b59505c788ffad4c79706586dce >> [5] >> http://varadgautam.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/dieharder-tests-on-a-qemu-vm-1-setup/ >> >> Thanks. >> Varad >> >> _______________________________________________ >> linaro-dev mailing list >> linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org >> http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev >> _______________________________________________ linaro-dev mailing list linaro-dev@lists.linaro.org http://lists.linaro.org/mailman/listinfo/linaro-dev
