From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: erik quanstrom Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:33:59 -0400 To: 9fans@9fans.net Message-ID: <914a84fe95d4ae24fb7517ce2ca795d1@brasstown.quanstro.net> In-Reply-To: References: <201206171720.q5HHKZSl015160@freefriends.org> <75a40a79-2828-47c3-9b76-76f3dcf1e9ea@googlegroups.com> <1342446560.3514.133.camel@wes-HP-Pavilion-g7-Notebook-PC> <20120717175113.6ce22c1b@vardo.ethans.dre.am> <20120717191240.7D7B3B827@mail.bitblocks.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [9fans] apparently nice summary of small linux pcs Topicbox-Message-UUID: a2d98fc8-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > > 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. > > well, then do it if you think so. what i was trying to say before, is that there is already some research in the area. it doesn't have to be proven possible. see: "9p for embedded devices" http://iwp9.inf.uth.gr/. and "levitating across the river styx" http://4e.iwp9.org/papers/levitation.pdf - erik