Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for GSoC 2017 mentors & project ideas

[Andrew Baumann]

> From: Peter Maydell [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:02
> On 9 February 2017 at 20:46, John Snow <address@hidden> wrote:
> > On 02/09/2017 07:46 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> Slightly late, but I had an idea last night: would "get
> >> Raspbian booting on our raspi2 board model" be a good
> >> project? Would involve some mix of bug fixing, cleaning
> >> up and adding device models from the raspi2 tree on github,
> >> and implementing missing devices. Bit of a "how long is a
> >> piece of string" project, but on the other hand breaks
> >> down easily into small parts that can all go upstream
> >> individually. Would suit student who likes debugging :-)
> 
> > Who was working on this most recently? There was someone submitting
> > patches pretty frequently for the raspi2 board within the last year,
> > wasn't there?
> 
> That was Andrew Baumann, but I think his use case was
> getting Windows 10 to boot on it, which exercises
> different bits of the hardware.

That's right, but I thought we also had Raspbian working after Peter C's 
implementation of SETEND. (I wouldn't be surprised if it had regressed, 
however.)

I've dropped the ball on this, and don't forsee finding time for it in the 
immediate future, but if anyone wants to work on it there are still some 
outstanding bits of emulation lurking in my github tree (github.com/0xabu/qemu) 
mostly from the original implementation by Gregory Estrade: pi1 model, system 
timers, stub power management control, and USB controller. The last one (USB) 
is essential to having a usable device, but also sadly dubious in terms of code 
quality and completeness.

Cheers,
Andrew