On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 17:36:08 +0100 Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > (I was unsure what the appropriate mailing list for this was, apologies > for the cross post) > > You may or may not be aware that Xen intends to switch to using SeaBIOS > as part of switching to using upstream qemu as our device model > (hopefully in our next major release later this year). The switch to > SeaBIOS is currently a WIP by Anthony Perard (who did the Xen port to > upstream qemu). > > This is mainly a heads up that we have several students interested in a > project which I am mentoring to add Xen PV frontends (particularly disk) > to SeaBIOS . You can see a brief description of the project near the end > of the table at http://wiki.xen.org/xenwiki/GSoC_2011_ideas. Obviously > one of the main goals will be to work with the SeaBIOS (and if necessary > qemu) communities as well as Xen.org in order to produce patches which > can can be submitted to the relevant upstreams. > > If/when we have an actual student assigned to the project I will ask > them introduce themselves too. Nice. If you have any trouble reaching someone from qemu, please, let me or Stefan (CC'ed) know. > > If anyone want to be more involved with this work (e.g. as a backup > mentor or whatever) then please do let me know. > > Cheers, > Ian. > > _______________________________________________ SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios