From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas
Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2021 14:07:06 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1cca9652-25ff-44ae-885c-e54b1e858f53@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5d168bde-e6a3-48a8-86c4-371950efc0b7@sirjofri.de>
On Mon, Feb 1, 2021, at 9:47 PM, sirjofri wrote:
> > (a) An Android "app" that presents an Android phone's telephone and SMS
> > messaging facilities as a 9P filesystem. This would enable Plan 9
> > and Inferno applications to place/receive voice calls and
> > send/receive text messages across a network. This could be done by
> > extending bhgv's existing Android port of Inferno, or as a
> > separtate, stand-alone server app.
Yes. I recall some users of IoS Drawterm very much appreciated /dev/gps
> Also hellaphone might be interesting (maybe just for comparison). Afaik
> they removed the whole java stuff from android and replaced it with dis.
> They were able to do phone calls and I think they got rudimentary text
> messages working, too, but both directly on the phone using inferno.
They did. Unfortunately, Linux is so bad at abstracting hardware interfaces that it only ever ran on one or two phones. Also, they never figured out how to make it ring. They did have /dev interfaces for sms and dialing.
http://jfloren.net/b/2015/8/18/2
(Should I be blaming Android hardware vendors for Linux interface inconsistency? I don't think so. I remember sysfs going from about 3 to over 10 files just to represent battery state.)
> A native 9p interface for Android might also be a nice project. Android
> supports adding new protocols like ftp or smb to its native filesystem
> pool. I don't know the details.
Awesome!
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2021-01-29 19:23 [9fans] Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021 Anthony Sorace
2021-02-01 0:31 ` ~vidak
2021-02-01 9:35 ` sirjofri
2021-02-01 11:07 ` svaderaa
2021-02-01 11:26 ` Bakul Shah
2021-02-02 1:15 ` raingloom
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2021-02-01 20:46 ` Steve Simon
2021-02-03 14:14 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-02-01 21:47 ` [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas sirjofri
2021-02-03 14:07 ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
2021-08-06 16:25 ` Jack Johnson
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2021-09-20 5:08 ` Conor Williams
2021-09-20 5:11 ` vidak
2021-09-20 15:02 ` ori
2021-09-20 5:43 ` [9fans] " Dave Eckhardt
2021-09-20 7:51 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-09-20 8:23 ` hiro
2021-09-20 8:37 ` Conor Williams
2021-09-20 8:39 ` Conor Williams
2021-09-20 8:45 ` Conor Williams
2021-09-20 8:52 ` Conor Williams
2021-09-20 8:58 ` Conor Williams
2021-09-20 11:06 ` Conor Williams
2021-09-21 9:01 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-09-20 11:05 ` sirjofri
2021-09-20 11:08 ` Conor Williams
2021-09-20 14:01 ` sirjofri
2021-09-21 9:25 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-02-02 8:29 ` [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021) tlaronde
2021-02-03 15:07 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-01-19 11:08 ` pouya+lists.9fans
2021-02-03 18:58 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-02-06 2:17 ` David Arroyo
2021-02-03 18:26 ` ori
2021-02-03 23:31 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2021-02-05 16:42 ` Ethan Gardener
2021-02-07 22:59 ` [9fans] Re: GSoC 2021 project ideas cigar562hfsp952fans
2021-02-09 0:26 ` Steve Simon
2021-02-09 1:59 ` [9fans] " Jeff Sickel
2021-02-09 0:34 ` [9fans] " Ethan Gardener
2021-02-02 5:30 ` [9fans] Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021 ori
2021-02-02 10:40 ` [9fans] Project idea (was: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021) sirjofri
2021-02-02 16:07 ` [9fans] Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021 Jeff Sickel
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