2010/3/30 Paul Brook <p...@codesourcery.com> > > Hi Roland, > > > > On 30.03.2010, at 01:52, Roland Elek wrote: > > > Dear Qemu developers, > > > > > > I am a university student from Hungary interested in contributing to > Qemu > > > through Google Summer of Code. I am interested in emulation, and two > > > projects from the ideas page in particular. One of them is AHCI > > > emulation. Can I kindly ask you what were the hardest points that made > > > the project get a high difficulty rating, so that I could determine > > > whether to apply for it or not? At a first glance, I think that AHCI > code > > > from VirtualBox OSE would be a good place to start. What do you think? > > > > I looked at the AHCI code from vbox some time ago and deemed it > unreadable. > > It's probably easier to go with the spec and implement it from there. > > I agree. IIRC the AHCI documentation is pretty good. > The main reason I implemented the LSI SCSI HBA rather than AHCI was because > at > the time the SCSI HBA had much wider OS support. > > Paul >
I'm almost convinced to try my hand at the AHCI project, thank you. :-) I will contact jai soon about the S3 Trio. I'll also skim through the documentation so that I can set reasonable goals in my timeline.
