From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:53:34 +0100 From: Enrico Weigelt To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Message-ID: <20091126225334.GA25437@nibiru.local> References: <20091124180118.GB31148@nibiru.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P via serial links or USB Topicbox-Message-UUID: a3182dca-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 * 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 -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weigelt@metux.de mobile: +49 174 7066481 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------