Hello Ammar, On lunedì 2 marzo 2026 at 23:53, Ammar Yasser wrote: > Hello maintainers > > Re-introducing myself in case you missed my email to the mailing list.
I *did* lost your first e-mail, so thank you for writing this one. > I'm Ammar, a software engineer working with Linux kernel and virtualization. > I'm interested in contributing to QEMU for GSoC 2026, particularly the > virtio-rtc vhost-user device project. If accepted, this would be my second > GSoC participation. I participated in 2024 with KubeVirt, which was my > original introduction to QEMU. > > I have the following questions in order to formulate a successful proposal: > > 1. What would you like to see from a successful proposal ? The current > points i am studying and plan to include in mine are: > > - an overview of the RTC device spec > - how it would interact with QEMU > - some of the rust data types and enums we would introduce for requests, > different error types.. etc > - a breakdown for some of the RTC C implementations that currently exist in > QEMU (allwinner, aspeed, goldfish.. etc), and what ideas can we borrow from > them in our rust implementation > > I am leaving out implementation specific details out of the current phase. > Let me know if this sounds appropriate > I'd include some details on how you intend to perform the activity (e.g.: how to split and order the various tasks). > 2. I am looking for issues I can tackle to familiarize myself with the > vhost-device repo and how one device is structured. Any ones you have that > are relevant to the project or you think are important in general? > No preferences there, please select the one(s) you think appropriate. > Thanks in advance > > Ammar > > Regards, Francesco
