From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes Message-id: From: dave.l@mac.com To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> In-reply-to: Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 00:03:06 +0100 References: Subject: Re: [9fans] apropos of the glendix post Topicbox-Message-UUID: 0d0a8e5a-ead4-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 This gets punted around every few months and nothing happens. I've done some basic information-gathering but got no further for the usual reasons, so, in an effort to stimulate some inertia, here's a small suggestion ... Is there anyone out there who's gonna be in Volos and wants to participate in a driver-writing BOF? DaveL On 4 Sep 2008, at 06:47, lucio@proxima.alt.za wrote: >> if linux can use binary blobs, why can't plan9 do it too? > > I think the BLOBs are platform specific, but I may be mistaken. If > I'm right, there's no way that we'd get any momentum to turn this > around. > > But your earlier comment is extremely valid, too few people are > working on drivers. Without wishing to fan Discordia's flames, it is > true that the 9fans community does not seem focused on solving > problems, but rather on the academic value of the ease in which > problems could be solved if one followed the 9 True Ways :-) > > That said, how do we mobilise the community to focus on useful > drivers? I suppose we start with Ron's wish list, then we explore > Russ' partially complete postings (i386 emulation, Centrino drivers, > I'm sure I've forgotten many more) and thirdly we post a list of > willing contributors, possibly split into code writers and advisors. > > Any takers? > > ++L > >