From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/7160 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Justin Cormack Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: GSoC 2015 project "Porting Musl to RISC-V" Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 20:51:01 +0000 Message-ID: References: <54FB4F6A.2070905@gentoo.org> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425761488 12717 80.91.229.3 (7 Mar 2015 20:51:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 20:51:28 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-7173-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sat Mar 07 21:51:21 2015 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 1YULgt-0007A9-3p for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 21:51:19 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 26405 invoked by uid 550); 7 Mar 2015 20:51:17 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 26349 invoked from network); 7 Mar 2015 20:51:13 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=specialbusservice.com; s=google; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=UcuDn1pIRGkmXR/v4//T8UFhZAFbNZLiRPFkDv4bg48=; b=Q9fMnNFWCVHh/OMtRhTeLLlR8i0E4U8uAhc5MFbKnXeB5x6ISy080hfOTMIQ5MY+wL bvGg4UoWd/7Y1V3hLRlnoCKlCo+jw3L1XqIMPZLJwESjVa+LVYw6/+P3VMVRHkXUrnLC H6Aw7j+bbI2qZhT0a80YQKN/nH3yEQpf7lZOQ= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:content-type; bh=UcuDn1pIRGkmXR/v4//T8UFhZAFbNZLiRPFkDv4bg48=; b=BOnbNfBywmAsIY3ZbqVArjbe9bWYX9WcxByjwfJW1IBF7L5ZgwCySkIpEwFHLiaVnq bnrnI9fMOUZIFWt1JlmlrtO2hWVLL2U/+Xv0ZCxSPvwPL2Yh5jBkXgffPpLW0vJDGhur Sjo8sqqYEmtCbN5V0g0BmmYIRtje1t66QWBjWbUQWp4v6296Emr35OKRDoB4T2D0l8/X s6+GSXB1tI0vZFtn58qPrDy2Ppzgg44Ss+FvVUhuX6H9ZsmgCVtfHrX5Pa+vWYZuJFbY Y68He843UWhVe28ax9lPOBSQIesh2Q33KH1I2SzO6s5by8ki6c6W0nsK7i08f+et6dwx YRpQ== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQlqt6fany+oWqv2y092ni0d6x/4v1jSl/T6vcpVGT2SajAEEHWXCWlFwLrbexyWQ4PTffox X-Received: by 10.152.22.200 with SMTP id g8mr18374414laf.96.1425761461803; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 12:51:01 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:7160 Archived-At: On 7 March 2015 at 20:26, Fossil Codger wrote: > Hi, excuse me for the bad English... Do you want porting the musl to which > RISC computer: for ekzample "Banana Pi", or...? Hi, it is the Risc-V architecture, which is a specific Risc architecture. See http://riscv.org/ for more information. Justin > 2015-03-07 19:20 GMT+00:00 Devan Franchini : >> >> Hello musl mailing list, >> >> I'd like to start off by introducing myself. My name is Devan Franchini >> and I'm >> a senior student at D'Youville college in Buffalo, New York. I'm >> currently >> working on my bachelor's degree in IT, which is a software engineering >> program, >> and I'll hopefully be free from the shackles of structured education >> come next >> semester. >> >> Last night I joined the #musl channel in IRC and briefly discussed my >> interest >> in working on the GSoC project in which I would be porting the musl C >> library >> over to the RISC-V architecture. Here's a little bit about my background: >> >> * At D'Youville College I've been guided by the tutelage of Dr. Basile >> (blueness at gentoo.org), who has exposed me to my passion for >> system-level >> development including but not limited to C standard libraries and >> system building. >> * I've been working with Linux for five years and Gentoo Linux in >> particular >> for three of those five years. This has given me a greater >> understanding of >> Linux internals and its underlying beauties. >> * I have successfully completed two GSoCs. After my first GSoC I worked >> with >> blueness and became a Gentoo developer. >> * I'm familiar with open-source development including version control >> systems >> systems (git and CVS), bug reports, submitting patches via bug reports >> or >> email, and test suites. >> * My strongest programming languages are Python, C, and C++, in that >> order. >> * I have taken a class dedicated solely to Linux system programming and >> I'm >> familiar with POSIX, XOPEN, SUSv3 and SUSv4 standards. The text we used >> is >> "The Linux Programming Interface" by Michael Kerrisk. >> * I have worked with x86, and mips assembly code but I'd be lying if I >> said I >> remember most of it. However, I am quite capable of getting back on the >> proverbial assembly horse. >> >> I've already discussed with Dr Basile my interest in this project and he >> stated >> he'd be willing to work with me through the summer as well since he >> integrated musl into Gentoo. >> >> As of last night I was working on setting up a build environment for this >> project and have successfully built the tool-chain for riscv64 and the >> rest >> of the tool suite with instruction provided here: >> https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~qmn/linux/install.html >> >> Hopefully I'll have this opportunity to work on porting the musl C >> library to >> new ground in the form of the RISC-V architecture. >> >> With Regards, >> Devan Franchini >> >