Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC 2010: IOMMU emulation

[Paul Brook]

> I'm wondering take part on GSoC with QEMU, I really liked the "IOMMU
> emulation project". However I only know basically how an IOMMU works,
> but that is not a big a deal, I can learn about it and implement.
> Besides read the code and learn how a IOMMU works what else more do I
> need to do? Also how much time are you guys expecting from me to spend
> on QEMU the during the project?

Implementing the IOMMU is easy. The hard bit is fixing the qemu DMA and bus 
mapping infrastructure, which I'd expect to end up being fairly hairy and 
touching a good proportion of devices.

Paul