Re: [Qemu-devel] Mentor Summit notes

[Alistair Francis <alistair23@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Nov 7, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 01, 2016 at 09:21:20AM -0700, Alistair Francis wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 2:31 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Valentine and I attended Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit on behalf
>> > of QEMU.  The event brings together GSoC mentors from all
>> > participating organizations.
>> >
>> > A lot of people benefit from QEMU and told me so at the summit.  There
>> > are also many who hadn't heard of QEMU before.
>> >
>> > I gave a lightning talk about Pranith Kumar's MTTCG project since it's
>> > a good example of a QEMU project:
>> > https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1kidkMp4k-ak180aI-eZQfWuIEpQoeY-0N-oqt9eZo20/edit?usp=sharing
>> >
>> > Feedback from Mentor Summit:
>> >
>> > 1. Pavel Pisa wants to upstream CAN bus support.  I asked him to
>> > rebase and submit the patches.  Please take a look when patches are
>> > posted.
>> >
>> > 2. RTEMS mentioned they sometimes rely on out-of-tree QEMU targets and
>> > want to encourage authors to upstream their code.  Xilinx was
>> > mentioned in particular.
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback. We are trying to send our work upstream, as
>> you know though it takes time and resources.
>
> Good to hear!  I did mention that Xilinx are good contributors to QEMU
> :-).

That's great, we are trying hard.

Thanks,

Alistair

>
> Stefan