Re: virtio-sound Google Summer of Code project?

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

Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> writes:

> On Sun, 29 Jan 2023 at 17:10, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Shreyansh, Gerd, and Laurent,
>> The last virtio-sound RFC was sent in February last year. It was a
>> spare time project. Understandably it's hard to complete the whole
>> thing on weekends, evenings, etc. So I wanted to suggest relaunching
>> the virtio-sound effort as a Google Summer of Code project.
>>
>> Google Summer of Code is a 12-week full-time remote work internship.
>> The intern would be co-mentored by some (or all) of us. The project
>> goal would be to merge virtio-sound with support for both playback and
>> capture. Advanced features for multi-channel audio, etc can be stretch
>> goals.
>>
>> I haven't looked in detail at the patches from February 2022, so I
>> don't know the exact state and whether there is enough work remaining
>> for a 12-week internship. What do you think?
>
> Adding Anton.
>
> I have updated the old wiki page for this project idea and added it to
> the 2023 ideas list:
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Internships/ProjectIdeas/VirtioSound
>
> Please let me know if you wish to co-mentor this project!

I'd be happy to help - although if someone was rust inclined I'd also be
happy to mentor a rust-vmm vhost-user implementation of VirtIO sound.

-- 
Alex Bennée
Virtualisation Tech Lead @ Linaro