Dear Qemu developers,
First, I'd like to reintroduce myself, as my university and official
duties prevented me from being active in the community since last year.
I am Roland Elek, a student from Hungary, and a successful student
participant of Google Summer of Code 2010. This year, I would like to
participate again. I know I'm a bit late, but I'm still hoping to get
things arranged before the deadline.
Last year, I worked on AHCI emulation with Alex as my mentor. Do you
think a proper summer project could be proposed from what is still
missing? If so, can I kindly ask someone to give me some pointers to
what the project needs the most, and where I should look first for
things to include in my proposal? Also, if the idea is feasible, would
there be someone who could be my mentor?
Last year, I was also interested in working on S3 Trio emulation. This
year, the same idea is on the ideas list. The hardware is pretty
thoroughly documented through source code and textual documentation, and
I'm already familiar with adding PCI devices to Qemu, so I do see a
rough outline of how I would implement it.
However, last year, Paul Brook commented [1] that he wasn't convinced
about the usefulness of emulating an S3 Trio or Virge card, because of
performance reasons. He suggested that accelerating the 2D engine would
be tricky because the framebuffer is exposed to the guest. This might be
just me not fully understanding his point, but isn't this also the case
with the Cirrus Logic GD5446 card?
He also suggested paravirtualization for 3D acceleration. Do you think
it would make a good summer project?
Thank you in advance for your help.
Regards,
Roland
[1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2010-04/msg00012.html
