Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for GSoC 2017 mentors & project ideas

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On 9 February 2017 at 20:46, John Snow <jsnow@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 02/09/2017 07:46 AM, Peter Maydell wrote:
>> Slightly late, but I had an idea last night: would "get
>> Raspbian booting on our raspi2 board model" be a good
>> project? Would involve some mix of bug fixing, cleaning
>> up and adding device models from the raspi2 tree on github,
>> and implementing missing devices. Bit of a "how long is a
>> piece of string" project, but on the other hand breaks
>> down easily into small parts that can all go upstream
>> individually. Would suit student who likes debugging :-)

> Who was working on this most recently? There was someone submitting
> patches pretty frequently for the raspi2 board within the last year,
> wasn't there?

That was Andrew Baumann, but I think his use case was
getting Windows 10 to boot on it, which exercises
different bits of the hardware.

thanks
-- PMM