Re: [9fans] android hacking?

[Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>]

On Thu, 8 Oct 2009 06:40:03 -1000 (HST)
Tim Newsham <newsham@lava.net> wrote:

> >> What would be amazing would be attaching it via USB and importing its /net
> >> (or some other way of turning it into a 3G modem for plan9)
> >
> > Is there more about it than compiling inferno and simply exporting that
> > device?
>
> That would probably be enough, but keep in mind that while you
> have linux, you dont have X.  so you'd have to deal with inferno's
> graphics some other way (or just go text mode?)

I'm planning on ditching X on my Linux-powered Zaurus.  I can't code
for X and it's got that horrible font-breakage which prevents me using
any window manager I'd actually like, so it's going.  I may well be
wanting Inferno to output to the Linux framebuffer in the near future.

Actually I'd really like to make my own somewhat Plan 9-like window
system.  It seems possible using Mesa, I'm much happier programing
OpenGL than X, but it's the biggest project I've ever embarked on so I
sure don't want to promise anything, even to myself.

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Ethan Grammatikidis

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