Hello, I recently found this project and was wondering if this project was still interested in applicants for the 2022 summer. I was looking into the project ideas and am looking into "Emulate hardware and filesystem in platform-independent way for unit tests" and "Optimize Erase-Function Selection". As many of the projects require programmers, flash chips, and hardware, I was wondering to what extent I would need to have these. I saw the following lists which demonstrate the supported hardware, but I would appreciate it if I could have a more descriptive explanation of what I would need. https://www.flashrom.org/Supported_programmers https://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware
Additionally, I noticed that some projects want low-level programming, which I would be interested in. However, as I have only a small amount of experience with MIPS, would it not be worthwhile to apply to this position?
Thank you for your time
Hi Wynn,
Nice to have you interested in Flashrom! Yes of course we are interested in applicants for 2022, it is the good time now: the application window has just opened a few days ago.
As many of the projects require programmers, flash chips, and hardware, I was wondering to what extent I would need to have these.
It depends on a project. The first project idea that you mentioned "Emulate hardware and filesystem in platform-independent way for unit tests" does not require additional hardware. The goal of the project is to emulate hardware, so all the code written under it, will be running without any hardware. You will need, however, to understand how hardware is supposed to work, in order to emulate it.
Additionally, I noticed that some projects want low-level programming, which I would be interested in. However, as I have only a small amount of experience with MIPS, would it not be worthwhile to apply to this position?
This also depends on the project idea. Some ideas are more of "application development", which is focused on flashrom as an application. For such ideas, a small amount of experience with MIPS is fine.
The last thing: please check our guidelines here: https://www.flashrom.org/GSoC . Good luck!
On Fri, Apr 8, 2022 at 3:43 AM Wynn K wynnmka@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, I recently found this project and was wondering if this project was still interested in applicants for the 2022 summer. I was looking into the project ideas and am looking into "Emulate hardware and filesystem in platform-independent way for unit tests" and "Optimize Erase-Function Selection". As many of the projects require programmers, flash chips, and hardware, I was wondering to what extent I would need to have these. I saw the following lists which demonstrate the supported hardware, but I would appreciate it if I could have a more descriptive explanation of what I would need. https://www.flashrom.org/Supported_programmers https://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware
Additionally, I noticed that some projects want low-level programming, which I would be interested in. However, as I have only a small amount of experience with MIPS, would it not be worthwhile to apply to this position?
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