Bug#1035760: ITP: rshim-user-space -- Userspace (fuse) host driver for Mellanox BlueField devices

[dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: dann frazier <dannf@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, Liming Sun <lsun@mellanox.com>, Taihsiang Ho <taihsiang.ho@canonical.com>

* Package name    : rshim-user-space
  Version         : 2.0.7
  Upstream Contact: Mellanox Technologies <support@mellanox.com>
* URL             : https://github.com/Mellanox/rshim-user-space
* License         : GPL
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : Userspace (fuse) host driver for Mellanox BlueField devices

This is a userspace driver that provides host access to BlueField PCIe
devices. It can be used to push boot streams (usually to flash a new OS
image), access a virtual console, provide a virtual network interface
connecting the BlueField device and its host, and a debug interface.

I work with BlueField PCIe devices as part of my day job. These devices run
a full Linux distribution, and this driver is required to manage them from
the host OS. I plan to maintain it as part of a small (1-3) person team,
where I will likely be the only member who is a DD. We plan to use salsa
for hosting.