Re: Looking for issues/features for my first contribution

[Rajath Shashidhara <rajaths@cs.utexas.edu>]

Hi,

Thanks Stefan ! I spoke to Dinah and this issue is still up for grabs.
I would be working on both SeaBIOS MMConfig task and the DS3231 RTC 
emulation feature.

Thanks for your help!
Regards,
Rajath Shashidhara

On 07-11-2019 07:54, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 05:50:44PM -0600, Rajath Shashidhara wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am a Computer Science graduate student at The University of Texas at
>> Austin (UT, Austin). I am looking forward to contributing to qemu !
>>
>> This semester, I am taking a class in Virtualization
>> (https://github.com/vijay03/cs378-f19) and contributing to a virtualization
>> related open-source project is a significant part of the course.
>> I would be interested in contributing a patchset to qemu - possibly a
>> self-contained feature or a reasonably complex bug fix that can be completed
>> in under a month's time. I did look at both the bugtracker and the QEMU
>> Google Summer of Code 2019 page
>> [https://wiki.qemu.org/Google_Summer_of_Code_2019] for ideas. However, I
>> would be interested in hearing from the community and I would be delighted
>> if somebody can be suggest a suitable project !
>>
>> I am an advanced C programmer with both professional and academic background
>> in systems design & implementation - especially OS & Networks. Given my
>> background, I feel fairly confident that I can pickup the QEMU codebase
>> quickly.
> Please check with Dinah Baum whether the SeaBIOS MMConfig task is
> already taken, maybe you'd like to work on it if the task is still
> available:
>
>    https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20191105163952.GI166646@stefanha-x1.localdomain/
>
> Stefan