Hi Alberto, On 3/1/26 00:02, Alberto Hernandez Cardenas wrote: > Hi Mentors and QEMU community, > My name is Alberto, I am a computer engineering student from Mexico (UPIICSA). > I want to participate in GSoC 2026 with QEMU.
Thanks for reaching out! Judging from the people you wrote to (including me), I assume you are interested in the virtio-rtc proposal. > I already installed Fedora 43 and I compiled QEMU from source successfully. I > am studying the code right now. I know C and I am learning Rust because I want > to help with the new components of the project. > I saw this issue on GitLab: *"Writing a large amount of data to the > virtio-serial chardev device causes the channel to become > blocked"* issue #3251 <https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/3251>. > I am very interested in this problem. I want to understand why > |vsc->have_data| is causing a blockage. I think this is a good way for me to > learn how QEMU works with devices. > I have some questions: > > * Is someone working on this issue right now? > Probably not, you can try to reproduce and comment the issue with you findings, as a starting point. > * Can I try to solve this as a "test task" for my GSoC proposal? > * Do you have any other small tasks or "Bite Sized" issues for a new student > like me? > Bite sized issues on QEMU are listed at https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues?label_name%5B%5D=Bite%20Sized My advice would also be to take a look at the issues for vhost-device at https://github.com/rust-vmm/vhost-device/issues, as that will probably be a big part of the activity on virtio-rtc. But don't forget to work on your application, which will be open March 16-31! > I am very happy to learn and contribute to QEMU. Thank you for your time! > Best regards, > Alberto Hernandez Cardenas. (Nickname: betillo) > GitLab: [email protected] Regards, Francesco
