Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

[Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>]

someone at the land (peter bosch?) dis a haupage video capture card.

i am pretty sure i have a copy of the driver and user level app somewhere.

this worked on an old pci card i had at one time.

-Steve


On 1 Feb 2021, at 8:32 pm, cigar562hfsp952fans@icebubble.org wrote:

Anthony Sorace <a@9srv.net> writes:

> Hello! After a few years away, we’ll be applying to Google’s Summer of Code program again this year.

...

> 1. Project ideas. One of the key parts of the application is the
> project ideas page. If you’ve got ideas that seem like they’d be a

Plan 9-related:

(1) Porting the Plan 9 kernel to a microkernel architecture, such as
   Mach.  This would give Plan 9 instant access to the whole range of
   hardware supported by the underlying microkernel.

(2) A Zoom/video conferencing application for Plan 9.  Enough said.  :)

(3) Happauge/Brooktree BTTV/video capture drivers.  AFAIK, Plan 9 can
   only use USB Web cams.

(4) Port SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) tools as a Plan 9 file system.
   That would give Plan 9 instant access to a huge range of flatbed &
   sheet-fed document scanners.

(5) An NFS sever for Plan 9.  Unix machines have a lot of trouble
   handling edge cases encountered on 9P filesystems (such as the
   number of hard links to directories).  An NFS server would make it
   much easier for Unix/Linux and Plan 9 to get along happily.

(6) Incorporating Inferno's Dis virtual machine into the Plan 9 kernel,
   so Plan 9 can run Dis binaries natively, without having to run the
   Inferno emulator (emu) as a user process.

Inferno-related:

(A) A 64-bit version of Dis, which was designed as a 32-bit (31-bit?)
   architecture.

(B) Porting Inferno to modern video game consoles, such as the Nintendo
   Switch family.  Coolness.

(C) Creating a secure version of Dis.  The way that Dis handles
   allocated/freed memory isn't particularly safe, and can leak
   sensitive data (such as encryption keys).  It doesn't have a way to
   whiten memory, or to mark ranges of memory as non-swappable.  This
   could be done by adding new VM instructions, or on a per-module
   basis by adding new module flags.

(D) Porting Nemo/LSUB's "OSHAD" to Plan 9.  OSHAD is an authentication
   system (implemented in Inferno) which allows you to provide
   passwords or acknowledge actions from a separate, wireless hand-held
   device.

(E) A postscript/PDF viewer for Inferno.  Enough said.  :)

Android-related:

(a) An Android "app" that presents an Android phone's telephone and SMS
   messaging facilities as a 9P filesystem.  This would enable Plan 9
   and Inferno applications to place/receive voice calls and
   send/receive text messages across a network.  This could be done by
   extending bhgv's existing Android port of Inferno, or as a
   separtate, stand-alone server app.

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