Re: [9fans] 9P via serial links or USB

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> wrote:
> There already is a gphoto2 fs for fuse if I remember correctly.

Last time I heared, it was just planned.
Perhaps I'm not up2date and you've got a pointer for me ?

> Though I haven't heard of any camera with 9p yet.

Yep, that would be the next step: provide a toolkit for embedded
developers and encourage them to use it instead of the bogus
pptp+proprietary stuff.


Meanwhile I've made up another front:
I'm negotiating with an developer/producer of power meters and
similar products, which log their data to SD cards and have an
ethernet/IP interface.

At this point I'm thinking about an more thin approach for those
devices: put 9P on the lowest level possible, no IP, but a very
thin protocol (eg. somethink like IL, but directly ontop of eth ?),
just enough to carry 9P messages. Just an error-correcting (not
necessarily in-order) datagram protocol, which does not need an
explicit address assignment (eg. builtin 64bit device addresses ?).
These devices essentially just speak 9P - multiple devices on
the same network interface are represented within the fs hierachy.


cu
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