Re: support of hardware nested page table for vkernels

[Justin Sherrill <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 9:29 AM, Jitendra Singh
<jpsingh@cs.stonybrook.edu> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We are a group of two Grad students from Stony Brook University, NY. We are
> keenly interested and want to contribute in the project for supporting
> hardware nested page table for vkernels for mentioned in the GSoC 2012. In
> fact, we would even love to add support for all hardware virtualization
> features provided by AMD-V architecture and Intel-VT architecture if it
> already has not been supported.

That would be a great project!  It sounds like you've got some
experience dealing with this, which is good because it will be
difficult.  I don't know of a specific mentor to work with on this
project, but we also don't have a finished mentor list.  It may be
worth visiting #dragonflybsd on EFNet IRC to see if there's anyone
present to discuss it.

My advice to you would be to work on a proposal for submission after
the 26th.  Be as explicit as possible; you can't overplan for Summer
of Code, especially for a more complex project.  Remember that the
proposal is both a plan to make it easier for you to finish, and a
demonstration to whomever mentors you that you've thought this
through.