User:JForden

Week 1: June 1st, 2022

Tuesday (5/31/22)

• Attended introduction meeting on an introduction to data science.

Wednesday (6/1/22)

• Attended meeting about research outcomes.
• Met with the research team and decided on summer projects.

Thursday (6/2/22)

• Attended team meeting and discussed goals and ideas for the summer projects.
• Identified utilities needed to compile and run operating systems on a local env.

Friday (6/3/22)

• Continued downloading and installing programs.
• Installed RiskV tool chain
• Installed QEMU
• Was able to make and compile xV6 in RiskV on the virtual machine.

Week 2: June 6th, 2022

Monday (6/6/22)

• Out of office

Tuesday (6/7/22)

• Started reading and commenting Xinu source code.
• continued to read RiskV documentation.

Wednesday (6/8/22)

• attended group talk for REU
• talked with Dr. Brylow about roadmap and information for the summer project.
• Project has the ability to build across semesters

Thursday (6/9/22)

• Worked on writing aspects of Xinu in RiskV instead of Arm architecture.
• Able to get "Hello World" to print over the serial driver/port.

Friday (6/10/22)

• Continued development work
• attended team lunch
• attended team meeting to discuss weekly progress with the group.

Week 3: June 13th, 2022

Monday (6/13/22)

• Due to getting a new laptop, all tools needed to be installed again
• changed two Xinu Arm atomic operations, CompareAndSwapStrong and CompareAndSwapWeak, to RiskV
• Was able to get qemu to compile Xinu, hello world printed using RiskV architecture
• Continued to document aspects of the Xinu system in work notebook

Tuesday (6/14/22)

• Continued to read up on trap handlers
• Worked on implementing exception handling in Xinu
• Worked on implementing interrupt handling in Xinu
• Pushed working(hopefully) Xinu RiskV trap handler

Wednesday (6/15/22)

• Added definitions for exceptions and interrupts
• Removed a magic number from dispatch.c
• Attended REU talk

Thursday (6/16/22)

• When Xinu boots, it now switches from machine mode to supervisor mode to handle exceptions
• Spinlocks are now implemented.

Friday (6/17/22)

• Attended team meeting
• Attended team lunch
• Worked with Virgil team on Xinu questions

Week 4: June 20th, 2022

Monday (6/20/22)

• Added Round Robin Scheduling to Xinu

Tuesday (6/21/22)

• Reviewed Xinu Wiki and created a list of issues.
• talked about next steps
• Team meeting to discuss pthreads, internal clock, or memory management as the next TODO.

Wednesday (6/22/22)

• Started work on translating pthreads
• Attended REU weekly meeting, talked about survey response.
• Attended REU lunch.

Thursday (6/23/22)

• Discussed next steps and goals
• Looked into existing documentation and copied files over to the riscV github.
• Using "read the docs" we now auto generate documentation based on changes to the github.
• Live pdf version of documentation is now live: https://riscv-xinu.readthedocs.io/_/downloads/en/latest/pdf/
• Website version of documentation is also live: https://riscv-xinu.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
• Most of the pages are legacy and will need to be edited or replaced.

Friday (6/24/22)

• Made documentation roadmap
• attended team meeting
• Identified roadmap for next week

Week 5: June 27th, 2022

Monday (6/27/2022)

• attended 10am meeting about poster presentation

Tuesday (6/28/2022)

• Worked on implementing embedded riscV zinu on Nezah board
• was able to contact Nezah board via serial port, display port drivers are out of date.
• found a better debian image online, download speed was exceptional, will try to reformat drive tomorrow

Wednesday (6/29/2022)

• Continued development work on hardware

Thursday (6/30/2022)

• Identified method to set Mac address and connect the board to dhcp server.
• Continued development

Friday (7/1/2022)

• Attended team lunch meeting
• Downloaded VM and started process of downloading and compiling a newer version of Tina linux.

Week 6: July 4th, 2022

Monday (7/4/2022)

• Not in the office

Tuesday (7/5/2022)

• Started download of Tina linux from a virtual machine.
• Compiled and packed source code