[GSoC] [ARM] arm cleanup - my own proposal

[Aleksander Dutkowski]

hello!

after few weeks searching for interesting idea for me, I've decided to
propose my own one. It is already mentioned on IdeasPage:
- ARM cleanup

Why I have chosen this one? I am very interested in embedded world.
Now I am working on porting FBSD to at91sam9g45 - I will be much more
motivated working on arm fbsd project than any other.

Why should you let me do that project? While working on freebsd/arm
I've noticed places that could be optimized, or separated, i.e.
at91_samsize() should be declared for each board separately - now,
this function has if-else and checks, which board is he running on.

I would like to identify and fix that bugs, so the code will be more
efficient and clear. Moreover, I think there should be a
tutorial/framework for adding new boards or SoCs, so I will be
simplier. I am currently reading the code in sys/arm/at91 and
searching for improvements but I will be very pleased, if you send me
your insights.

The first question is - should I cleanup only at91 branch or more? I
am quite familiar with at91 right now.
The second - how to test the code? Some of boards could be tested in
qemu, I could buy board with at91rm9200 for example, if I'm in. But
maybe I will find here people with their own boards, they could help
me testing? I havs sbc6045 board with at91sam9g45 SoC but it hasn't
fbsd support yet (I'm working on it now :) )

I also thought about reducing kernel size for embedded, if arm cleanup
won't fit.


-- 
regards
Aleksander Dutkowski
http://ping.kti.gda.pl/~aleek