Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@gmail.com> writes: > On Thu, Feb 09, 2017 at 10:17:45PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: >> On 9 February 2017 at 22:12, Andrew Baumann >> <andrew.baum...@microsoft.com> wrote: >> >> From: Peter Maydell [mailto:peter.mayd...@linaro.org] >> >> Sent: Thursday, 9 February 2017 14:02 >> >> On 9 February 2017 at 20:46, John Snow <js...@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. >> > >> > That's right, but I thought we also had Raspbian working after >> > Peter C's implementation of SETEND. (I wouldn't be surprised if >> > it had regressed, however.) >> >> For the raspbian kernel image I had it never worked -- I >> think the kernel gained some new functionality that means >> it now touches some device we don't yet implement (vague >> recollection it was somethnig message-box related?).
There are RNG related patches on the list at the moment. >> >> > I've dropped the ball on this, and don't forsee finding time >> > for it in the immediate future, but if anyone wants to work >> > on it there are still some outstanding bits of emulation >> > lurking in my github tree (github.com/0xabu/qemu) >> >> Yeah, I figured that was probably the situation, and I >> don't personally have the time to do it either; but >> it seemed like maybe it would make a GSoC project. > > It sounds like this can be broken down into tasks by a mentor willing to > participate and knowledgable (or willing to do the homework) on device > support status. > > Are there any volunteers? I'd be happy to help mentor if needed. I guess it will depend of anyone picks the project up? > > This would be a great project to have on board. > > Stefan -- Alex Bennée
