Re: Newcomer looking for a small first task

[Andrew Precious <andrewprecious388@xxxxxxxxx>]

One of the ways I find what to work on is search through the code comments by doing a grep scan(example that searches the tools/ & excludes qemu/) - $ grep -rnI --exclude-dir=qemu* "TODO" tools/

For misra rules violation as per(docs/misra/xen-static-analysis.rst) - $ xen/xen/scripts/xen-analysis.py --run-cppcheck --cppcheck-misra --cppcheck-html -- -j$(nproc)

A html report then gets generated in the directory(/xen/xen/cppcheck-htmlreport)

As for documentation updates there is on-going work to convert relevant pages from the Wiki to .rst format for the new Xen handbook
- Contributor handbook - https://handbook.xenproject.org/contribution-guidelines.html
- Gitlab handbook - https://gitlab.com/xen-project/websites/handbook - Once youve made relevant changes you can submit a merge request.

On Fri, Oct 2, 2026 at 1:27 PM r4ahim <mer.r4him@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hi,

I'm new to Xen, running it under QEMU (Xen builds and Dom0
boots). I'm preparing my first patch and I'm most interested in
PCI passthrough, vPCI and the IOMMU, but I'm happy to start
anywhere.

Is there a small unclaimed item (a MISRA violation, docs fix or
XTF test) that I could take?

Thanks,
Abderrahim Meriah