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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] GSoC: Xen.org project to implement PV driver
	frontend for SeaBIOS
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@eu.citrix.com>
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To: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>, Kevin O'Connor <kevin@koconnor.net>, "seabios@seabios.org" <seabios@seabios.org>, "qemu-devel@nongnu.org" <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>

On Wed, 2011-04-06 at 19:13 +0100, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 17:36:08 +0100
> Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > (I was unsure what the appropriate mailing list for this was, apologies
> > for the cross post)
> > 
> > You may or may not be aware that Xen intends to switch to using SeaBIOS
> > as part of switching to using upstream qemu as our device model
> > (hopefully in our next major release later this year). The switch to
> > SeaBIOS is currently a WIP by Anthony Perard (who did the Xen port to
> > upstream qemu).
> > 
> > This is mainly a heads up that we have several students interested in a
> > project which I am mentoring to add Xen PV frontends (particularly disk)
> > to SeaBIOS . You can see a brief description of the project near the end
> > of the table at http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/GSoC_2011_ideas. Obviously
> > one of the main goals will be to work with the SeaBIOS (and if necessary
> > qemu) communities as well as Xen.org in order to produce patches which
> > can can be submitted to the relevant upstreams.
> > 
> > If/when we have an actual student assigned to the project I will ask
> > them introduce themselves too.
> 
> Nice. If you have any trouble reaching someone from qemu, please, let me
> or Stefan (CC'ed) know.

Will do, thanks!

> 
> > 
> > If anyone want to be more involved with this work (e.g. as a backup
> > mentor or whatever) then please do let me know.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Ian.
> > 
> > 
>