Re: Looking for issues/features for my first contribution

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Rajath Shashidhara <rajaths@cs.utexas.edu> writes:

> 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 !

Ahh someone else looking at QEMU \o/

You might find some suggestions in the thread:

  Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 04:59:31 -0600
  Message-ID: <CAOyzTAivEpv1VXzPXVH3Za9Zcz1URFjnpFCZQrRB4K=Z-oy1Dw@mail.gmail.com>
  Subject: Feature Recommendations?

> 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 !

Expanding a device emulation could be doable. I'm not sure what the
current state of the Raspberry Pi emulations are but I don't think they
are complete as we keep having to fix bits as kernel drivers are
enabled. Phillipe (cc'd) might be able to give some pointers.

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Alex Bennée