Re: GSOC 2011 (KVM for MIPS)

[Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de>]

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On 2011-02-21 02:09, yajin wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> wrote:
>> On 2011-02-20 14:08, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>>> On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 07:32:31PM -0500, yajin wrote:
>>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>>> I have proposed an idea of GSOC 2011 about adding KVM support to MIPS
>>>> architecture. I have solid experience on MIPS architecture and
>>>> familiar with qemu. I am very interested in this project.
>>>
>>> Having KVM support for MIPS would be really great. AFAIK there is not
>>> hardware virtualization support on MIPS (except if you plan to use the
>>> supervisor mode for that), so how do you plan to proceed here? Executing
>>> everything in user mode and emulating the trapped instructions? MIPS is
>>> using a split address space depending on the mode, so that may not be
>>> that easy.
>>>
>>> All of that to say it would be nice to have a more detailed description
>>> about such a GSOC, describing the your exact plans with a rough
>>> timeline. This is especially true, given that adding support for a new
>>> architecture in KVM seems to be a huge task for a GSOC.
>>
>> MontaVista has KVM for MIPS on their product slides [1]. Maybe someone
>> has a good contact to them and can poke for more details. They probably
>> won't offer it for direct download but need to distribute it to their
>> customers as open source anyway.
>>
> 
> Hi Jan,
> 
> Thanks very much for your information. I am not sure how they
> distribute their source code. Anyone knows about that?
> 
> Jan, would you like to be one of the mentors of this project? Your
> experience of KVM would be very helpful. Thanks

Your project is really interesting. But given that my bandwidth is
limited and I've already a different project proposal filed, I can't
commit myself to this yet. I may serve as a backup mentor, but no
promises at this point.

Jan


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