On 26/08/2020 17.00, Rohit Shinde wrote:
> Hey Thomas,
>
> I didn't really have any specific questions. I wanted to know if there
> was any part of qemu that I could contribute to. Qemu is overwhelmingly
> vast and without some pointers, I felt very lost.
Ok, that's true - QEMU is really a huge project. I'd really recommend to
pick some topics from https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/BiteSizedTasks
first to get a feeling for contributing patches to QEMU. Since you're
interested in emulation, maybe the topics from the "Device models"
section would also be a good fit?
> > I plan to stay and become a long term contributor. Is there any CS
>
> What does "CS" stand for?
>
> Computer Science :)
Oh, well, thanks, ok, that was too easy. I guess there are just too many
abbreviations around ;-)
>
> > theory that I would need to know other than what I mentioned
> above?
I'd recommend to browse the various KVM forum presentations on
http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/Category:Conferences to see if there is
something that catches your eye. You can find the recordings of most
presentations on
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRCSQmAOh7yzgheq-emy1xA , too.
> > Is it possible to "learn on the go"?
>
> You certainly have to "learn on the go", since it is likely quite
> impossible to grasp a huge project like QEMU at once.
>
> I am interested in contributing to something like device emulation.
> There might be lots of devices which Qemu might want to emulate but
> which haven't yet been emulated.
Sure, but I think you first need a target you're interested in first.
E.g. do you want to focus on x86, ARM, PPC, m68k, ... ? Depending on
that, you can start looking around in the hw/ directory for "missing" or
"TODO" items.
I am pretty familiar with the x86 architecture since I have worked with processors right from 8086 to the Pentium line of processors. I have a nice familiarity with x86_64. I have a passing familiarity with ARM and SPARC architectures, but not much more. So I think I would like to focus on the x86 architecture. I'll poke around the hw/ directory. Please feel free to give me pointers in the meanwhile.
Thomas
Since I am new to the community, I wanted to make sure if it is fine if I post general questions to the mailing list and copy you? I see that all the posts in the mailing list are mostly patches and nothing else.
Thanks,
Rohit.