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From: "Anthony Sorace" <anothy@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Writing device drivers
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 10:16:16 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <509071940604150716p4df88e40yf304d9d7b82a6fb0@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <820bc1260604150624j6a206227qb6d982bb9d60a274@mail.gmail.com>

the wiki has a todo page
(http://cm.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/TODO/index.html) with some
proposed and ongoing projects. it's regularly out-of-date.

personally, i'd love firewire/ieee1394 support, although that's mostly
because i've got a small stack of such disks available to me, mostly
sitting idle. i believe someone (peter bosch?) was working on this a
few years ago.

for getting familiar with the plan 9 interfaces and such, you can get
started by just writing a driver that does something simple,
software-only. i found that quite educational getting started. go
write /dev/rot13 or something. for something trivial with real
hardware... has anyone ever bothered to write a driver for the PC
speaker? that should be fairly easy (but then, it is a PC, so i
wouldn't be shocked if not).

  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-15 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <8a5bd8ccbc2e53557663e2a9020fb26c@coraid.com>
     [not found] ` <820bc1260604140834v2a773ev90ff46b4e6b2427f@mail.gmail.com>
2006-04-14 15:36   ` Eric Smith
2006-04-14 19:33     ` David Leimbach
2006-04-15  4:58     ` jmk
2006-04-15 13:24       ` Eric Smith
2006-04-15 14:16         ` Anthony Sorace [this message]
2006-04-16 23:00           ` Paweł Lasek
2006-04-19  3:10 erik quanstrom
2006-04-19  4:02 ` jmk
2006-04-19  4:57   ` lucio
2006-04-19  6:59   ` Nigel Roles
2006-04-19 21:12   ` quanstro
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-04-17  0:31 erik quanstrom
2006-04-17  1:44 ` Russ Cox
2006-04-17 10:01   ` Nigel Roles
2006-04-18  1:34     ` erik quanstrom
2006-04-18 14:49       ` Nigel Roles
2006-04-18 15:42         ` jmk
2006-04-18 15:59         ` Moritz Kiese
2006-04-18 16:03           ` Nigel Roles
2006-04-18 19:15       ` Paweł Lasek
2006-04-17  0:11 erik quanstrom
2006-04-17  1:24 ` Russ Cox
2006-04-16  1:02 erik quanstrom
2006-04-16  2:36 ` Anthony Sorace
2006-04-16  8:06   ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-15 23:34 erik quanstrom
2006-04-15 23:55 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-15 15:26 erik quanstrom
2006-04-15 23:04 ` Federico Benavento
2006-04-15 23:18   ` Skip Tavakkolian
2006-04-16  0:43     ` Federico G. Benavento
2006-04-16 18:03     ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-16 18:14       ` Bruce Ellis
2006-04-16 21:31         ` Charles Forsyth
2006-04-14  3:20 Eric Smith

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