From: Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] apparently nice summary of small linux pcs
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 12:12:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120717191240.7D7B3B827@mail.bitblocks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:51:13 BST." <20120717175113.6ce22c1b@vardo.ethans.dre.am>
On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:51:13 BST Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Actually I've toyed with the idea of a "Plan 9 from 8-bit space". It
> would be a fun challenge, I think, and I'd be interested to find
> exactly what compromises would be needed. It may even be less of a
> challenge than writing drivers for the crap peripherals ARM SOCs always
> seem to be burdened with, but what could you do with it when it was
> done?
What would be possible is to build a general purpose
building block. Something like this:
- provide a tiny thread library
- provide 9p over USB|serial|UDP
- implement a simple 9p server framework & export a server
side interface where one can plug in sensor/actuator
specific routines and specify the FS layout via a string.
- implement a namespace convention for discovering
capabilities (for example a "help/" dir)
- it should be implementable as a verilog block some day!
may be not but imagining that keeps the design simple.
Actually it doesn't have to be 9p. It can be something
simpler.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-17 19:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-17 17:20 arnold
2012-06-17 18:49 ` Nick LaForge
2012-06-17 19:00 ` hiro
2012-06-17 21:20 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-06-17 21:36 ` hiro
2012-06-17 21:44 ` hiro
2012-06-18 10:52 ` Yaroslav
2012-06-18 11:33 ` pmarin
2012-06-18 12:21 ` Nicolas Bercher
2012-07-16 8:44 ` opryymak
2012-07-16 10:16 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2012-07-16 10:35 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2012-07-16 13:49 ` Wes Kussmaul
2012-07-17 16:51 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-07-17 16:53 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-17 17:33 ` Paul Lalonde
2012-07-17 17:40 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-07-17 17:34 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-07-17 18:16 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-17 18:20 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-07-17 18:43 ` Anthony Sorace
2012-07-17 18:49 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-17 19:09 ` Eli Cohen
2012-07-17 19:11 ` hiro
2012-07-17 20:10 ` Eli Cohen
2012-07-17 20:33 ` Steve Simon
2012-07-17 20:49 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-17 22:01 ` hiro
2012-07-17 17:36 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-07-17 19:12 ` Bakul Shah [this message]
2012-07-17 19:16 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-17 19:54 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2012-07-17 20:12 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-17 19:20 ` hiro
[not found] ` <CAFSF3XNe601BQd15oA5sJumf+KWo4ZTYJ_pHpWY9v5jfWk_+bQ@mail.gmail.c>
2012-07-17 19:33 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-17 20:02 ` Bakul Shah
2012-07-16 15:08 ` Jack Norton
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