On 01/23/2015 06:21 PM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote: > Dear libvirt, KVM, and QEMU contributors, > The Google Summer of Code season begins soon and it's time to collect > our thoughts for mentoring students this summer working full-time on > libvirt, KVM, and QEMU. > > What is GSoC? > Google Summer of Code 2015 (GSoC) funds students to > work on open source projects for 12 weeks over the summer. Open > source organizations apply to participate and those accepted receive > funding for one or more students. > > > We now need to collect a list of project ideas on our wiki. We also > need mentors to volunteer. > > http://qemu-project.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2015 > > Project ideas > Please post project ideas on the wiki page below. Project ideas > should be suitable as a 12-week project that a student fluent in > C/Python/etc can complete. No prior knowledge of QEMU/KVM/libvirt > internals can be assumed. > I'm not the most active of contributors, but here's an idea:
Project idea: Integrate ide ATAPI and scsi CD-ROM driver Currently the ide ATAPI and scsi CD-ROM driver are two distinct implementations, and have different bugs/features. This leads to the situation that things which work when using the IDE emulation don't work when using the SCSI emulation and vice versa. So this project is for implementing a virtual ATA-to-SCSI bridge in qemu, use this for emulating an IDE ATAPI drive, and merging the missing features from the IDE implementation into the SCSI one. Skill level: intermediate (This would also help to implement advanced features like NCQ autosense or sense data reporting in the ATA emulation. Just in case someone's daft enough trying to implement a ZAC emulation ...). And yes, I'd be willing to mentor it. Cheers, Hannes -- Dr. Hannes Reinecke zSeries & Storage h...@suse.de +49 911 74053 688 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg GF: J. Hawn, J. Guild, F. Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)
