Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for GSoC 2017 mentors & project ideas

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:17:45PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 9 February 2017 at 22:12, Andrew Baumann
> <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> From: Peter Maydell [mailto:address@hidden
> >> Sent: Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:02
> >> On 9 February 2017 at 20:46, John Snow <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> > On 02/09/2017 07:46 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> >> Slightly late, but I had an idea last night: would "get
> >> >> Raspbian booting on our raspi2 board model" be a good
> >> >> project? Would involve some mix of bug fixing, cleaning
> >> >> up and adding device models from the raspi2 tree on github,
> >> >> and implementing missing devices. Bit of a "how long is a
> >> >> piece of string" project, but on the other hand breaks
> >> >> down easily into small parts that can all go upstream
> >> >> individually. Would suit student who likes debugging :-)
> >>
> >> > Who was working on this most recently? There was someone submitting
> >> > patches pretty frequently for the raspi2 board within the last year,
> >> > wasn't there?
> >>
> >> That was Andrew Baumann, but I think his use case was
> >> getting Windows 10 to boot on it, which exercises
> >> different bits of the hardware.
> >
> > That's right, but I thought we also had Raspbian working after
> > Peter C's implementation of SETEND. (I wouldn't be surprised if
> > it had regressed, however.)
> 
> For the raspbian kernel image I had it never worked -- I
> think the kernel gained some new functionality that means
> it now touches some device we don't yet implement (vague
> recollection it was somethnig message-box related?).
> 
> > I've dropped the ball on this, and don't forsee finding time
> > for it in the immediate future, but if anyone wants to work
> > on it there are still some outstanding bits of emulation
> > lurking in my github tree (github.com/0xabu/qemu)
> 
> Yeah, I figured that was probably the situation, and I
> don't personally have the time to do it either; but
> it seemed like maybe it would make a GSoC project.

It sounds like this can be broken down into tasks by a mentor willing to
participate and knowledgable (or willing to do the homework) on device
support status.

Are there any volunteers?

This would be a great project to have on board.

Stefan

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