Help Out

[Nick Krause]

On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 12:38 PM, Oleksij Rempel <linux at rempel-privat.de> wrote:
> Am 27.03.2015 um 17:02 schrieb Nick Krause:
>> On Fri, Mar 27, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Oleksij Rempel <linux at rempel-privat.de> wrote:
>>> Am 27.03.2015 um 15:20 schrieb Nicholas Krause:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On March 27, 2015 9:52:59 AM EDT, Oleksij Rempel <linux at rempel-privat.de> wrote:
>>>>> Am 27.03.2015 um 14:22 schrieb Nick Krause:
>>>>>> Greetings All,
>>>>>> I have been reading this list for the last few weeks and was
>>>>> wondering
>>>>>> how I can start contributing.
>>>>>> Further more I have some understanding of kernel internals and file
>>>>>> systems related to Linux so
>>>>>> helping out would be no problem, if there are any requests for where
>>>>> I
>>>>>> should start please let me
>>>>>> known.
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Nick
>>>>>
>>>>> Just get some hardware and start play with it. Try to brake it or write
>>>>> a new driver. After some work you will see how match work is needed :)
>>>> Olaf,
>>>> That's the issue,  I don't know where to
>>>> purchase a board with mtd flash on it.
>>>> If you can point to where I can purchase a rather inexpensive board for this that would be great. Furthermore I was interested in how we are doing with fixing the issue relating to handling data concisely if there is a  power failure when writing to the flash on the system.
>>>> Nick
>>>
>>> Not sure if i can suggest you exact board. Probably i can give you some
>>> direction. Since you wish to play with file system, then you probably
>>> need some think bigger then 8MB of storage. In this case NAND will be
>>> better choice.
>>> You will need a SOC/Board with:
>>> - NAND controller
>>> - as match open as possible - you will need to work with latest vanilla
>>> kernel source.
>>>
>>> - MIPS Creator CI20
>>> - ASM9260t eval board (i work on upstreaming. if you wish to work on
>>> this, we can talk about it)
>>>
>>> Other options with nand on board? Or other suggestions?
>>>
>>> --
>>> Regards,
>>> Oleksij
>>>
>> I would be glad to help you upstream the board you are working on.
>> Cheers,
>> Nick
>
> About this project,
>
> - it is a SoC produced in China by some no name company
> - None of persons working on this project will probably ever be able to
> get money on it
> - our target is to have open and as chap as possible board.
>
> You will need:
> - own evaluation board and some jtag adapter for openocd (i use bus
> blaster v3, some thing else should work too)
> - probably most important, fix you patch and community skills - if i see
> it correctly, your reputation need really hard work to be acceptable.
>
> If you ok with all this, send me privately you skype name. It is
> probably most stable way to communicate with devs in china.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Oleksij
>
I don't have a skype name. However email I think works fine for this.
Nick