Hi Varad, That looks a very solid application.
One comment, on something you have probably found on one of our wiki pages we have not updated - the work is actually taking place in the Linaro Enterprise Group. Regards, Leif On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 06:34:22PM +0530, Varad Gautam wrote: > 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
