Patrick Georgi has uploaded this change for review.
Documentation/project_ideas: Update after 2019
The coverity project is done, for the most part, so drop it. Expand
a bit on the scope of the toolchain binary project, and point out
that the Ghidra project already has code from GSoC 2019 but could be
developed further.
Change-Id: I7342cc3133494f69b175b11b1f8342a0f40840e7
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
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M Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot refs/changes/86/39086/1
diff --git a/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md b/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md
index 90164a2..8271ea9 100644
--- a/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md
+++ b/Documentation/contributing/project_ideas.md
@@ -27,7 +27,9 @@
Provide packages/installers of our compiler toolchain for Linux distros,
Windows, Mac OS. For Windows, this should also include the environment
-(shell, make, ...).
+(shell, make, ...). A student doesn't have to cover _all_ platforms, but
+pick a set of systems that match their interest and knowledge and lay
+out a plan on how to do this.
The scripts to generate these packages should be usable on a Linux
host, as that's what we're using for our automated build testing system
@@ -131,26 +133,6 @@
### Mentors
* Patrick Georgi <patrick@georgi.software>
-## Make coreboot coverity clean
-coreboot and several other of our projects are automatically tested
-using Synopsys' free "Coverity Scan" service. While some fare pretty
-good, like [em100](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/em100) at 0 known
-defects, there are still many open issues in other projects, most notably
-[coreboot](https://scan.coverity.com/projects/coreboot) itself (which
-is also the largest codebase).
-
-Not all of the reports are actual issues, but the project benefits a
-lot if the list of unhandled reports is down to 0 because that provides
-a baseline when future changes reintroduce new issues: it's easier to
-triage and handle a list of 5 issues rather than more than 350.
-
-This project would be going through all reports and handling them
-appropriately: Figure out if reports are valid or not and mark them
-as such. For valid reports, provide patches to fix the underlying issue.
-
-### Mentors
-* Patrick Georgi <patrick@georgi.software>
-
## Extend Ghidra to support analysis of firmware images
[Ghidra](https://ghidra-sre.org) is a recently released cross-platform
disassembler and decompiler that is extensible through plugins. Make it
@@ -158,6 +140,11 @@
integrating UEFITool, cbfstool, decompressors), automatically identify
16/32/64bit code on x86/amd64, etc.
+This has been done in 2019 with [some neat
+features](https://github.com/al3xtjames/ghidra-firmware-utils) being
+developed, but it may be possible to expand support for all kinds of firmware
+analyses.
+
## Learn hardware behavior from I/O and memory access logs
[SerialICE](https://www.serialice.com) is a tool to trace the behavior of
executable code like firmware images. One result of that is a long log file
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