From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3aaafc130903292046v36a30813q8cdf93e006ffa632@mail.gmail.com> References: <8126F5C4-87DF-4EB8-9470-FACCB5B1BEAF@gmx.de> <14ec7b180903261129m6e5d68e2r27484cefd521db3b@mail.gmail.com> <14ec7b180903261236j3dfa1c58qcbc2116b4a5ed6a6@mail.gmail.com> <3FD7E1D5-4CA2-4BEF-B24B-2DF1E51EC1BA@kix.in> <3aaafc130903292002n64910d8fnd960716a787d9b95@mail.gmail.com> <13426df10903292040p20c315abs202dec77398e14a3@mail.gmail.com> <3aaafc130903292046v36a30813q8cdf93e006ffa632@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:08:28 -0400 Message-ID: <509071940903300708r6c477fb2he6ed869f0ba57650@mail.gmail.com> From: Anthony Sorace To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] GSOC: Drawterm for the iPhone Topicbox-Message-UUID: cd0683d0-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 to ron's latest point: seeing it on the G1 would be great, too. but we have a student with an iPhone who's said he'd like to do it, and at least a handful of people here have said they'd like to see it, and have the device. if the same conditions get met for the G1, i see no reason we wouldn't entertain applications from students for that port, too (although it seems likely we'd end up picking one or the other). on the unrelated 9p-on-darwin idea: no, there's no theoretical reason it couldn't be done. getting a Darwin kernel module would also be of broader use than the iPhone, obviously. i'd be pretty worried about that being a summer project unless the student already had intimate knowledge of the Darwin filesystem hooks.