Tag: GSoC

coreboot GSoC update: RISC-V and SerialICE

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The last two blog posts on the coreboot blog are by two students working on their Google Summer of Code (GSoC) project. Both sound very interesting.

Jonathan Neuschäfer is improving coreboot’s support for RISC-V platforms, which was initially added in 2014.

Antonello Dettori is working on improving SerialICE, “which is one of the main tools used in reverse engineering an OEM BIOS”, including coreboot integration.

More information:
http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2016/06/01/gsoc-better-risc-v-support-week-1/
http://blogs.coreboot.org/blog/2016/06/02/gsoc-panic-room-week-1/
http://coreboot.org/
https://www.serialice.com/GSoC
https://riscv.org/

lowRISC project enters GSoC 2016

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“The lowRISC is taking part in the 2016 Google Summer of Code (GSoC). Additional projects mentored by other organisations that may benefit lowRISC and the open source hardware eocsystem include multi-threaded TCG in QEMU, developing a RISC-V processor model for ArchC, improving the RISC-V port of Coreboot, or working on cross-bootstrap in Debian. Also see the MyHDL projects. Student applications are open between March 14th and March 25th. Project ideas (in no particular order):

Porting musl libc to RISC-V
Improve device-tree support for the Linux RISC-V port
Schematic Viewer for Netlists (SVG/JavaScript)
An alternative flow for ice40 place and route
Port a teaching operating system to the lowRISC platform
Integrate more open-source IP for lowRISC on FPGAs
Implement a Trusted Execution Environment
Trace-debug analysis tool
Generic hardware/software interface for software-defined radio
Implement a SPIR-V front end for Nyuzi
Port an operating system kernel to Nyuzi”

http://www.lowrisc.org/docs/gsoc-2016-ideas/

Minnowboard is part of GSoC16

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The Minnowboard project is part of the Google Summer of Code project. If you are a student, this might be a good opportunity for you to start on a new project. There’s dozens of things that should be done with coreboot, U-Boot, UEFI, SeaBIOS.

According to the wiki, students will get a Minnowboard Turbot, and some cables.

The MinnowBoard project is an open hardware platform that uses Intel Architecture. While the project, overall, is focused on hardware there are a lot of things surrounding this effort that can, and are, useful both to the project and to the greater open source community. As such the MinnowBoard project (from a GSoC perspective) is more of an umbrella giving a home to a number of other projects to collectively work on and around the enablement of the MinnowBoard. These projects not only help the MinnowBoard project, but also enable other open source projects and software. These tend to be smaller projects or projects that are more tightly focused and would not otherwise be apart of GSoC, but that could benefit from additional contributors.

More information:

http://wiki.minnowboard.org/GSoC2016