Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/4] multiboot: load elf sections and section headers

[Anatol Pomozov <anatol.pomozov@gmail.com>]

Hi

On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 2:36 AM, Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com> wrote:
> Am 18.10.2017 um 19:22 hat Anatol Pomozov geschrieben:
>> Hello qemu-devs,
>>
>> This patchset has been posted a while ago. I would like to move
>> forward with it and look at the next task (e.g. multiboot2 support in
>> QEMU). Who is the multiboot code maintainer who can help to review
>> this patchset and give go/no-go answer?
>
> I think that's exactly your problem, there is nobody who feels
> responsible for Multiboot support. Officially, it is part of the PC/x86
> subsystems:

In this case I would like to become the official Qemu/Multiboot
maintainer. I do development related to x86 osdev and actively use
qemu for my projects. I am interested in having a feature-rich and
robust Multiboot implementation. In mid term I see several tasks for
me:
 - finish and merge my cleanup + MULTIBOOT_INFO_ELF_SHDR patch series
 - add Multiboot2 support
 - (optional) look at MIPS support for Multiboot. I do not have/use
MIPS but it is beneficial to add multiplatform support to Multiboot
 - reviewing incoming patches


A bit about me. My name is Anatol Pomozov and at my spare time I
participate at several open sources projects. I am an Arch developer
since 2013 where I maintain a bunch of packages (including Arch qemu
package [1]). I have ~40 patches in the Linux kernel tree, where the
biggest contribution is a driver for audio codec NAU8825. I
contributed a lot of small patches to numerous projects (compilers,
toolchains, ...)

[1] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/qemu/