[svsm-devel] Call for mentors/ideas for Google Summer of Code

[Jörg Rödel]

Hi Stefano,

On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 10:25:38AM +0100, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> the QEMU community has kindly offered to use their GSoC as an umbrella
> for ideas regarding SVSM as well, since there are many students
> interested in programming in Rust.

This is a great opportunity for our SVSM project. I have a few ideas for
projects I am happily be the mentor for those:

1. Implement proper CPUID Feature Handling Framework for COCONUT

* Extend x86-cpuid project to generate Rust code usable by SVSM.
* Integrate code into the SVSM and convert existing checks.
* Re-work checking for required features.
* Bring changes upstream to their respective projects (x86-cpuid and
  SVSM).
* (Not sure if this is big enough for a GSoC project).

2. Observability Device and Linux Support

* Design a protocol for SVSM observability.
* Implement SVSM and Linux kernel + user-mode side for getting and
  presenting the data.

3. Encryption and simple File-System Layer for Block Storage device

* Title says it all
* Maybe good for someone else to mentor as well.


Regards,

	Joerg