On Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:47:08AM +0000, Wei Liu wrote: > Hello Saurav > > On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 03:50:37PM +0000, Saurav Sachidanand wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm Saurav Sachidanand, and I'm a CS sophomore studying in India. For > > more than year I've been programming in Rust and have published some > > personal projects in it (few involving the Rust-C FFI) and have > > contributed a some code to Servo (github.com/saurvs). I've also > > played around a bit with kernel modules in NetBSD. > > > > I'm interested in Xen's project for creating Rust bindings for libxl. > > Since I'm new to Xen, I'll spend time reading the docs, building and > > testing out Xen, and researching on the how to go about the > > implementing the bindings. > > > > Yeah, the first step would be to install and play with Xen for a bit. > > > I'd greatly appreciate any guidance and pointers you can give > > regarding this project. And if you could point me to some small coding > > tasks, I can start working it to get familiar with Xen's code base. > > > > From my point of view, this project needs to achieve several goals: > > 1. generate bindings systematically and automatically; > 2. be committed in tree (xen.git) -- see also tools/python directory; > 3. can be tested in project's CI infrastructure (osstest). > > Doug might have more points to add. > > As a small exercise, please try to implement a program in Rust so that > we can see (more or less) the same information as you would see when > calling "xl info", and provide building instructions so that we can test > it. Bonus point: do it in the form of a patch against xen.git so that we > can build it in-tree. > > And then you can come up with some ideas on how to achieve the goals. >
Forgot to say: feel free to ask questions if you find it difficult to navigate xen source code. The code you want to check out at this stage is tools/libxl, tools/xl. Please also have a look at tools/python for existing in-tree bindings. Wei. > Wei. > > > > Thanks, > > Saurav _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org https://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
