From 3f5e2b860d35686b0bb19fa895552a9b6a397039 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madan Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2021 13:44:45 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] --- oa/minutes/2021aug06.mdwn | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 95 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/oa/minutes/2021aug06.mdwn b/oa/minutes/2021aug06.mdwn index 911097e8b..bbab41766 100644 --- a/oa/minutes/2021aug06.mdwn +++ b/oa/minutes/2021aug06.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,97 @@ # Minutes -TODO + +Minutes of Meeting + +Date: August 6, Friday +Time: Started at 6:30 p.m. IST +Participants: Luke Leighton, David Calderhood and the Object Automation team + +In the last call, Luke told everybody to go through the 6 steps mentioned in “How can I help as a developer” listed in the https://libre-soc.org/. + +Arjun asked whether everyone had completed it. + +Luke asked if anyone had any questions about the process. + +Aditya asked what kind of skill sets do we have to provide? Luke explained skill sets such as verilog, circuit point design, gate-level design experience. Free software projects and online repository for those. Do you have any web site?, etc. and these have to be in brief. + +On joining the mailing list, “libre-soc-dev” is the best one, Luke asked to read the HDL workflow and become familiar with how to interact with people on the mailing list. + +Luke talked about etiquette on using mailing lists. + +Object Automation email IDs will be used for correspondence. + +Action Item: +Gmail e-mail IDs and Object Automation e-mail IDs were sent to Luke and David. + +GitHub access will be provided after the employees agree to the Libre-SoC’s 4 charter. + +The charters are: +1) Always do good +2) Never do harm +3) Everyone knows the code. +4) The code applies 100% of the time. + +Luke talked about the wiki page, bug tracker, email thread and cross-reference. +. +Questions posted in the IRC log will be answered within 36 hours. + +Configuration and specification of the computer: + +1) Luke said 8 GB RAM is ok, but having 18GB RAM is better. +2) The larger the resolution screen is better. + +Luke said he has access to 2 workstations with 24 cores, 72 threads and 128 GB RAM. +Once we agree to the charter, he will provide an SSH key to that machine. + +With a minimum of 8GB, one can do HTL simulations, run unit tests locally. + +Luke told everybody to read the HTL workflow documentation info. It has important information on projects, interacting with other people and other basic things. + +No code is written without unitest. + +Luke said they have dev and set up scripts. + +Luke shared his 25 years of experience in managing free software projects and collaborative project management. + +Luke has these dev and setup scripts, which allow you to automatically install Operating System dependencies and softwares. +Luke said installing Ubuntu is sufficient. + +Whenever a task is completed, commit and push have to be done immediately. +He also said we are paid for completion of tasks not by time. + +He said do not commit if you have not run the test. + +Some of the work available: +1) Adding a few signals to wishbone. Budget is 2500 euros. Bug 244 +2) Reference implementation in verilog. Budget is 1350 euros. Bug 246 + +Arjun asked any documentation is available +Luke said if something is missing, we would like to document and put it on wiki. +. +Wiki is a git repository. You will be able to git clone the entire contents of the markdown files containing wiki documentation. You will be able to do local search on local computers. + +Bug 175 is the critical one to start. + +Luke talked about the dev setup scripts, which are used to clone multiple repositories. To do the above, we can use this URL: https://libre-soc.org/HDL_workflow/devscripts/?updated. + +There is also a walkthrough YouTube video available. + +Arjun said the review will happen on Fridays. + +Luke said Robert Baruch’s tutorial is the best one to learn nMigen. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + -- 2.30.2