Re: GSOC - Interested in making u-boot compilable on NetBSD

[Joe Davis <joe.davis512%gmail.com@localhost>]

> Hello Joe,
> do you have samples of the older projects mentioned in your proposal?

I'll have to dig around, the project on which I made the most progress
(usermode/libc and the beginnings of SPARC and ARM ports) was written
on an old laptop that died of overheating a few years back. My idea of
backups at the time was regular dumps to USB, a bad habit I've since
given up after too many experiences like this one.

I think I stopped working on that one around 2012/2013? I had exams,
and didn't have time to spend messing about.

After that I wrote a few small toy kernels and bootloaders, most of
which were just to play around with some small idea, i.e. a new idea
for a page allocator, booting directly from real mode to x86_64.

I'm half way through writing this and I've realized that I might have
some source code on either my old android tablet (I had an
ArchLinuxARM chroot installed on a Nexus-7, and used that to play
around with... actually I'm not sure why I had that, I think I thought
it was cool), or my Raspberry Pi (I messed around with bootloaders for
a while). However, I may have ironically overwritten my Pi's SD card
with NetBSD, in which case, I may be out of luck.

Give me a few days, I'm busy with college assignments until Saturday.
I'll see if I can resurrect that old laptop, or at least find
something to show---keeping my hobbies organized was never one of my
strong points, and it doesn't help that until recently I'd started to
grow out of this one.

I'm not going to spend to much time searching, however, I have exams
in a few weeks time and for once in my life I'm determined to study
for them.

Cheers, I'll see what I find,

Joe


On 5 April 2016 at 10:01, Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 12, 2016 at 02:46:50PM +0000, Joe Davis wrote:
>> First off, an introduction, my name's Joe, I'm an Irish student
>> currently studying Theoretical Physics as a freshman in Trinity
>> College Dublin, and a self-taught programmer. I'm quite familiar with
>> C and assembly (mostly x86 and ARM, although I've a SPARC64 box at
>> home that I play around with occasionally), and have a little bit of
>> background in hobbyist kernel development.
>
> Hello Joe,
> do you have samples of the older projects mentioned in your proposal?
>
> Joerg