Re: [Xen-API] [Xen-devel] Getting into shape for GSOC 2013

[Wei Liu <Wei.Liu2@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2013-01-09 at 15:44 +0000, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:
> On 7 Jan 2013, at 16:39, Wei Liu <wei.liu2@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2013-01-07 at 16:27 +0000, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 12:31:23AM +0100, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> >>> On Wed, 2012-12-19 at 16:44 -0500, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk wrote: 
> >>>>> c) Ideally I would like to add biography and interest section for
> >>>>> all our mentors. I can create a wiki template for mentors if it
> >>>>> helps
> >> 
> >> Ideas for GSOC:
> >> 
> >> - Support microcode update bundled in with the initrd in Xen.
> >>  Here is the Linux side of it comes out looking:
> >>  http://markmail.org/thread/ewrs7fa66knfwzbo
> >> 
> >> - Write Xen PV Architecture Book/Manual/whatever. We have been
> >>  slowly going through the PV architecture and documenting it.
> >>  It would nice to have somebody full-time doing it and asking
> >>  questions. And then the answers would be written in this book.
> >> 
> > 
> > IIRC the documentation-only project will not be accepted.
> 
> So turn it into an executable specification and use that to generate
> fuzz tests as well as documentation.
> 
> In particular, doing this for more than just hypercalls, but also for
> the ring protocols (to find bugs in the backend drivers) would be a
> useful regression harness.  Throw in all the latest additions like
> multipage rings and various frontend options, and you will certainly
> shake out a few bugs (I just accidentally found a netback crash that
> I'm reporting separately).
> 

Anil could you put this idea on the project list if you're interested. 

http://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Xen_Development_Projects

We will start polishing the list for GSoC soon.


Wei.


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