From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Roland Elek <elek.roland@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC projects about AHCI and S3 Trio
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:14:01 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201003301314.03044.paul@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E4D57722-2474-4798-ACCB-382963862D5B@suse.de>
> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-30 12:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-29 23:52 [Qemu-devel] GSoC projects about AHCI and S3 Trio Roland Elek
2010-03-30 0:55 ` Alexander Graf
2010-03-30 4:56 ` Natalia Portillo
2010-03-30 12:14 ` Paul Brook [this message]
2010-03-30 18:52 ` Roland Elek
2010-04-01 11:55 ` Paul Brook
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