Re: Question on preferred location for QEMU sample projects

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Ruslan Ruslichenko <ruslichenko.r@gmail.com> writes:

> On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 4:04 PM Ruslan Ruslichenko
> <ruslichenko.r@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 13, 2026 at 9:25 AM Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Ruslan Ruslichenko <ruslichenko.r@gmail.com> writes:
>> >
>> > > Hi everyone,
>> > >
>> > > We are currently preparing the v2 patch series for the Remote-Port
>> > > Co-simulation protocol for interfacing with SystemC modules. The first
>> > > revision was here:
>> > > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2026-02/msg01760.html.
>> > >
>> > > As part of this submission, we would like to publish a sample project
>> > > serving as a demonstration of how to connect a QEMU Remote-Port
>> > > frontend to a SystemC backend.
>> > >
>> > > The sample project implements a standard SystemC IP core and uses
>> > > several external components such as:
>> > > - libsystemctlm-soc: https://github.com/Xilinx/libsystemctlm-soc
>> > > - VCML Library: https://github.com/machineware-gmbh/vcml
>> > > - SystemC Library: https://github.com/accellera-official/systemc
>> > >
>> > > We have a question regarding the location for this kind of project.
>> > > Could you please suggest if there is a preferred location or some
>> > > standard practice for hosting such a sample project?
>> >
>> > Location within the QEMU source tree?
>> >
>>
>> Hello Markus,
>>
>> Yes, it would be good to include this project within the QEMU source tree.
>> To build the project, the mentioned SystemC, libsystemctlm-soc and
>> VCML libraries and their specific dependencies need to be built and
>> installed separately.
>> Would this approach be acceptable?

We have a few (small) examples under contrib/.  However, Peter (cc'ed)
has been trying to clean out that directory.

>>
>> Alternatively, is there an auxiliary repository within the QEMU
>> infrastructure that is better suited for these types of sample
>> projects,
>> perhaps somewhere under https://gitlab.com/qemu-project?
>>
>> --
>> BR,
>> Ruslan
>
> Hello Markus,
>
> Do you have any thoughts on the preferred location for this sample project?
>
> Best regards,
> Ruslan

Peter, what about you?