From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/9964 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: [GSoC] Porting musl libc to RISC-V Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 00:11:43 -0400 Message-ID: <20160429041143.GB21636@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1461903127 6892 80.91.229.3 (29 Apr 2016 04:12:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2016 04:12:07 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-9977-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Apr 29 06:12:01 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1avzmb-00068O-8a for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Fri, 29 Apr 2016 06:12:01 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 11760 invoked by uid 550); 29 Apr 2016 04:11:57 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 11736 invoked from network); 29 Apr 2016 04:11:56 -0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: Rich Felker Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:9964 Archived-At: On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:06:55AM +0900, Masanori Ogino wrote: > Hello, > > I'm a master's student in Japan majoring in informatics. In this year, > my proposal for lowRISC has been accepted as part of Google Summer of > Code, so I'd like to introduce myself and the project I will work on. > You may have already discussed with me on the mailing lists, though > :-) > > The goal of my project is completing a RISC-V port of musl > (http://www.musl-libc.org/), mentored by Rich Felker. I hope the > project could benefit the RISC-V community. Since musl has been used > by some lightweight/embedded Linux distributions including Alpine > Linux and OpenWrt, the project will be attractive especially for > embedded system developers, I guess. > > The project aims not only adding RV-specific part of the libc, but > also integrating it into the toolchain. I also consider some > improvements to the kernel side interacting with libc (e.g. migrating > compare-and-swap emulation from system calls to vDSO functions) if > possible. > > For details, you can get my proposal on GitHub: > https://github.com/omasanori/gsoc2016-proposal > > I'm definitely new to the community though I have had interest in both > RISC-V and musl for years. Nice to meet you! > > Any comments would be appreciated. I hope you will get excited at this > project too. Congratulations, and welcome to the project. I know you've already been involved on the mailing list, including in topics not directly related to your proposal, which is great and very much in the spirit of the "community bonding period" of GSoC that's starting now. I believe some of those threads never reached proper conclusion and you may still be waiting for action from me or someone else, so between now and the start of the GSoC coding period would be a good time to follow up. While the focus of your project is musl, your proposal extends into some other areas (kernel, testing, etc.) and it would also be nice to identify people you might work with in those areas. Alexander Monakov, who also works on GCC and is involved in our community, has expressed interest in helping with anything related to the GCC side of your work. And Szabolcs Nagy maintains libc-test, the test system it will make sense to submit any new tests to. I'm also involved in kernel development now (as arch/sh maintainer) so I can assist on things related to kernel side (vdso) and procedures for submitting patches if you're not familiar, but the riscv stuff might still be mostly out-of-tree anyway. It's not mandatory for being involved in musl development, but myself and a lot of our contributors use IRC, #musl on the Freenode network, as part of development discussion. You're welcome to join us there if you like. Rich