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From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9fans <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2021 10:25:10 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2bcfe643-74fb-4ed9-9a30-c5ec77e32dc0@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac7e4f8a-addd-4110-922f-1217effd3958@sirjofri.de>

On Mon, Sep 20, 2021, at 12:05 PM, sirjofri wrote:
> 9front on pinephone is actually a project I'm interested in. I checked 
> out some details:
>
> The pinephone boot loader can boot from ext4 partition, so it seems 
> possible. We'd have to use some ext4 filesystem (eg the one made by 
> sigrid) and add it to the boot filesystem.
>
> With a bit of luck (and proper arm compatibility) we can then get a 
> 9front pinephone booting, maybe even with some screen. I expect many 
> things to not work (networking, touchscreen, WAN and lots of other phone 
> hardware stuff), but if we get the base system running and some 
> networking we already have something usable.

It'll be interesting to see how it goes. :) The pinephone's docking bar supports wired ethernet which will likely ease development.

> The most complex task is designing a proper plan 9-worthy touchscreen 
> interface and developing apps for that.

What do you think of p9p's support for multitouch as an alternative to chords? I recall it was well-received.

Ooh! Pine64 have announced they're developing a keyboard inspired by the Psion series 4. I was just thinking a keyboard would reduce the need for a clever interface.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-09-21  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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
2021-02-01  7:16 ` [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021) cigar562hfsp952fans
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
2021-08-06 16:25     ` Jack Johnson
2021-08-19 21:06       ` unobe
2021-09-20  4:52       ` [9fans] " cigar562hfsp952fans
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 [this message]
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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