Re: Upstreaming of the Elbrus2000 architecture support

["Alex Bennée" <alex.bennee@linaro.org>]

Gleb Popov <arrowd@freebsd.org> writes:

> Hello QEMU devs.
>
> MCST, a company behind the Elbrus2000 (e2k) architecture has
> open-sourced their QEMU fork that features e2k support [1]. I
> volunteered to help them get their work merged upstream. I realize
> that it might take a decent amount of time and labor, but I'm fully
> committed to this. On the MCST part they dispatched a developer team
> (CCed) to help in reviewing, answer questions and provide future code
> maintenance once it gets merged.
>
> So, if the whole idea sounds interesting to the QEMU community, what
> would be our first steps?

I think your first problem is finding people that can review and merge
the code. As MCST is on the sanctions list a potentially large section
of the regular contributors can't be involved in code review.

You may find a maintainer willing to process the PRs after they have
been reviewed but IANAL so check with your own counsel. It would be
worth making sure you have a plan before investing a lot of work into
re-basing and posting. 

>
> [1] https://git.openelbrus.ru/mcst/qemu

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Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro