2018-05-24 19:54 GMT+08:00 Marcel Apfelbaum <marcel.apfelb...@gmail.com>: > Hi Aaron > > On 05/24/2018 12:31 PM, Wei, Aaron wrote: >> >> >> Hi, Marcel >> >> It's my pleasure to write to you on behalf of a team who is developing the >> Intel VMD virtualization base on QEMU in Dell EMC. >> >> From https://www.outreachy.org. we find that you are working on the >> Multiple PCI domain feature which we think may be very helpful to our >> current work. >> > > We are glad you are considering using the project. > The project got delayed for next "Outreachy/GSOC" round, however Zihan Yang > <whois.zihan.y...@gmail.com>, > a PhD student, graciously offered to try it in his private time.
Hi Marcel Thank you for CCing and mentioning me in the email. I'm really glad to know people are interested in the project. It is really a joy to contribute to it. By the way, I'm currently a master student but that doesn't matter here. >> We’ll be grateful if you can share some information about, >> >> 1.What’s the present developing status? >> > > An early RFC (not a working version) was posted here: > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-05/msg04664.html > The mail thread includes an interesting discussion on issues and constrains. > >> 2.When would it possibly be ready? Or when could we get it from QEMU repo? >> > > Since is currently developed as a side project we don't have a clear > timeline, > you are welcome to contribute with ideas, reviews, tests and patches :) . > Any help is appreciated. Hi Aaron Thanks for your interest, I wish I could finish it as soon as possible, but I'm afraid I can't give any guarantee right now. As Marcel said, we don't have a clear timeline yet. The official project lasts 12 weeks, and I plan to finish it before September. The pace might be faster after June when all the exams are finished. About the project itself, we actually just started yet. You might want to look at the initial patch set I submitted a few days ago, as posted by Marcel in the last email. These patches are just POC, asking for reviews and comments. The AML part in QEMU and the firmware part are not implemented yet. I get many good reviews from Marcel and other members, and am preparing for a v2 patch. Actually, even if I finish all the work, there still might be some time before the patches are available in the upstream because there will be reviews and comments, and they are likely to go through many versions before they are merged. >> We appreciate and look forward to your reply. >> > > I hope I helped. I hope I helped too :) Feel free to comment/review/email/contribute if you have any questions about this project. Thanks Zihan