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. Thomas
