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-p…
[4]
https://git.gnome.org/browse/anjuta/commit/?id=eb10532632014b59505c788ffad4…
[5]
http://varadgautam.wordpress.com/2013/12/17/dieharder-tests-on-a-qemu-vm-1-…
Thanks.
Varad
