[Qemu-devel] [qemu-web PATCH v2] Add GSoC/Outreachy 2018 retrospective blog post

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

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+title:  "GSoC and Outreachy 2018 retrospective"
+date:   2019-01-23 07:50:00 +0100
+categories: [gsoc, outreachy, internships]
+---
+QEMU participates in open source internship programs including Google Summer of
+Code (GSoC) and Outreachy.  These full-time remote work opportunities allow
+talented new developers to get involved in our community.  This post highlights
+what our interns achieved in 2018.
+
+## micro:bit board emulation
+
+Julia Suvorova (Outreachy) and Steffen Görtz (GSoC) tackled adding emulation
+support for the [micro:bit ARM board](https://microbit.org/).  Although QEMU
+already has plenty of ARM emulation code, the Cortex-M0 CPU used in the
+micro:bit was not yet implemented and the nRF51 system-on-chip was also
+missing.
+
+The goal of this project was to run micro:bit programs (usually created with
+the [MicroPython](https://python.microbit.org/v/1.1) or
+[Javascript/Blocks](https://makecode.microbit.org/) IDEs) with a core set of
+emulated devices, including the serial port, pushbuttons, and LEDs.
+
+QEMU 3.1 already shipped the groundwork for the new `qemu-system-arm -M
+microbit` machine type.  Enough functionality to run basic micro:bit programs
+is expected in the next QEMU release.
+
+This project was mentored by Jim Mussared, Joel Stanley, and Stefan Hajnoczi.
+
+## Patchew REST API improvements
+
+Shubham Jain (GSoC) created a REST API for the Patchew continuous integration
+system that is at the heart of QEMU's development process.  The previous API
+was not RESTful and exposed database schema internals.
+
+The improvements to the REST API have been included into Patchew and are
+deployed on <a href="https://patchew.org/";>patchew.org</a>.  They are not in
+use yet, pending more work on authentication; this may be the topic of a future
+Summer of Code internship.
+
+This project was mentored by Paolo Bonzini and Fam Zheng.
+
+## Qtest Driver Framework
+
+Emanuele Esposito (GSoC) enhanced QEMU's test infrastructure with an engine
+that starts tests with all variants of devices that they are capable of
+driving.
+
+This is a complicated task in QEMU since certain devices and busses are
+available in an architecture-specific way on each emulation target, making it
+hard to write test cases without lots of hardcoded dependencies - and to keep
+them up-to-date!
+
+The qgraph framework that Emanuele created eliminates the need to hardcode each
+variant into the test.  Emanuele also converted several existing tests.  His
+framework was also <a
+href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8Go4NEw0Ss";>presented at KVM Forum 2019
+by Laurent Vivier</a> and should be merged in 4.0.
+
+This project was mentored by Paolo Bonzini and Laurent Vivier.
+
+## Vulkan-izing VirGL
+
+Nathan Gauër (GSoC) improved VirGL, which provides an OpenGL path well
+supported on Linux guests. On the host, QEMU offers several console back-ends,
+from EGL to SDL. Adding a Vulkan path will require to change the current VirGL
+API, write new guest drivers, and also offer a way to display the output. This
+is a huge task, which can be split in several sub-projects. Expending the
+current VirGL API to support Vulkan is the first step.
+
+Code is available [here](https://github.com/Keenuts/vulkan-virgl).
+
+This project was mentored by Marc-André Lureau.
+
+## Stay tuned for 2019 internships!
+
+QEMU will apply to Google Summer of Code and Outreachy again in 2019.  We hope
+to offer more great open source internship opportunities for new developers.
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