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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Writing a CAN driver for QEMU
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To: "Rempel, Cynthia" <cynt6007@vandals.uidaho.edu>
Cc: Gedare Bloom <gedare@rtems.org>, Amar Takhar <verm@darkbeer.org>, Petr Benes <petben@petben.net>, Thomas Doerfler <Thomas.Doerfler@embedded-brains.de>, "Sebastian.Huber@embedded-brains.de" <Sebastian.Huber@embedded-brains.de>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, Jennifer Averett <Jennifer.Averett@oarcorp.com>, Chris Johns <chrisj@rtems.org>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Cl?udio Silva <claudiodcsilva@gmail.com>, Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com>, Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz>

Am 18.05.2013 20:24, schrieb Rempel, Cynthia:
>>> The RTEMS development community is considering having a Google Summer
>>> of Code student test LinCAN on a simulated RTEMS target board using
>>> QEMU, and have some questions:
>>>
>>> 1. What guidelines should the student follow when writing the device > simulation, so the device simulation will be "upstreamed"/accepted by
>>> the QEMU project?
>>> 2. Is there additional documentation on how to write a device
>>> simulation?
>> Unfortunately there is not much documentation.
> Would following the guidance in:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2011-07/msg00842.html
> increase the probability the device simulation would be committed to qemu?

Yes, I think so.

Here is also some help which shows the fundamental
requirements for new contributions:

http://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch

Are you planning to emulate an existing CAN controller,
or do you want to design a new virtual CAN controller
from scratch?

Regards,
Stefan Weil