Re: Looking for issues/features for my first contribution

[Aleksandar Markovic <aleksandar.m.mail@gmail.com>]

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On Thursday, November 7, 2019, Rajath Shashidhara <rajaths@cs.utexas.edu>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I am a Computer Science graduate student at The University of Texas at
> Austin (UT, Austin). I am looking forward to contributing to qemu !
>
> This semester, I am taking a class in Virtualization (
> https://github.com/vijay03/cs378-f19) and contributing to a
> virtualization related open-source project is a significant part of the
> course.
> I would be interested in contributing a patchset to qemu - possibly a
> self-contained feature or a reasonably complex bug fix that can be
> completed in under a month's time. I did look at both the bugtracker and
> the QEMU Google Summer of Code 2019 page [https://wiki.qemu.org/Google_
> Summer_of_Code_2019] for ideas. However, I would be interested in hearing
> from the community and I would be delighted if somebody can be suggest a
> suitable project !
>
>
Hello, Rajath!

Thank you for expressing interest in QEMU open source project.

There is certainly a place for you and your contributions in QEMU, and you
are very welcomed!

It looks to me the following project would fit your description:

'Implement emulation of DS3231 real time clock in QEMU'

Datasheet:

https://datasheets.maximintegrated.com/en/ds/DS3231.pdf

The steps needed to complete it (in my opinion):

- collect datasheets of as many as possible RTC chips already emulated in
QEMU (there are around of dozen of them, see folder hw/rtc)

- do a comparative analysis of selected RTC implementations in QEMU

- get to know general QEMU device model

- design and implement DS3231 emulation

I can give you (unfortunately constrained by tight time limits) some help
and guidance. But there are other people in community too (more
knowledgable in the area than me).

I salute your initiative!

Yours,
Aleksandar




> I am an advanced C programmer with both professional and academic
> background in systems design & implementation - especially OS & Networks.
> Given my background, I feel fairly confident that I can pickup the QEMU
> codebase quickly.
>
> Eagerly looking forward to hearing from the community !
>
> Thanks,
> Rajath Shashidhara
>
>
>

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