Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 1/1] hw: misc, add educational driver

[Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>]

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On 01/21/2015 09:48 AM, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> I am using qemu for teaching the Linux kernel at our university. I
> wrote a simple PCI device that can answer to writes/reads, generate
> interrupts and perform DMA. As I am dragging it locally over 2 years,
> I am sending it to you now.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
> ---

> +++ b/docs/specs/edu.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
> +
> +EDU device
> +==========
> +
> +This is an educational device for writing (kernel) drivers. Its original
> +intention was to support the Linux kernel lectures taught at the Masaryk
> +University. Students are given this virtual device and are expected to write a
> +driver with I/Os, IRQs, DMAs and such.

Just because many other doc files in this directory are bad examples is
not a good excuse - I've been requesting that new docs include an
explicit license and copyright blurb, instead of relying on implicit
defaults of GPLv2+ inherited from the top level.  It would be fine to
add that as a followup patch.

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org


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