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Revision as of 08:40, 28 February 2019


A short summary of the idea will go here.

Student: Jmarek
Mentors: rcn-ee
Code: https://github.com/BeaglePilot
Wiki: http://elinux.org/BeagleBoard/GSoC/Proposal/usbDeviceTreeIntegration
GSoC: GSoC entry

Status

This project is currently just a proposal.

Proposal

About Me

IRC: jmarek
Github: jmarek1108
School: Michigan Technological University
Country: United States
Primary language: English
Typical work hours: 8AM-5PM US Eastern
Previous GSoC participation: This GSoC project is an opportunity to have a more structured introduction into participating in upstream Linux Kernel development. I have experience working on the X-ES custom kernel branch they maintain to support their products but I would like to make more broad contributions to the community.

About your project

Project name: USB configFS in device tree

Description

To speed up the boot process by configuring USB statically in the device tree instead of it being conventionally done through a script at boot time. Goal: USB configfs in device tree such that they can be configured statically in device tree ahead of boot and speed the boot process.

Timeline

Provide a development timeline with a milestone each of the 11 weeks. (A realistic timeline is critical to our selection process.)

2017-06-06: Milestone #1
2017-06-13: Milestone #2
2017-06-20: Milestone #3
2017-06-27: Milestone #4
2017-07-04: Milestone #5
2017-07-11: Milestone #6
2017-07-18: Milestone #7
2017-07-25: Milestone #8
2017-08-01: Milestone #9
2017-08-08: Milestone #10
2017-08-15: Milestone #11

Experience and approach

I am a fourth year computer science student with a co-op at Extreme Engineering Solutions (X-ES). X-ES produces ruggadized single board computers that run a branch of the Linux kernel that the Linux team at X-ES develops and maintains. As an embedded systems engineer co-op on the Linux team I gained experience working with development on the Linux kernel for embedded systems. Projects I worked on included writing device drivers to interface with a chipset on a SPI bus. This project gave me exposure to working with device trees and writing device drivers to interface with systems over bus communications.

Contingency

There are many resources online to help with Linux kernel development. Elixir provides a interface to kernel source code that is easy to navigate, forums exist for all aspects of the Linux kernel and its unlikely I will run into a problem dissimilar from problems other people have had in the past. In the event that the forums are of no use there is still the mailing lists.

Benefit

If successfully completed, what will its impact be on the BeagleBoard.org community? Include quotes from BeagleBoard.org community members who can be found on http://beagleboard.org/discuss and http://bbb.io/gsocchat.

Suggestions

Why do you want to work on this project?

I want to be a contributor to the Linux kernel and this project would give me a structured introduction to the process. This project also allows me to build on my experience from working with X-ES on embedded Linux.