From: hiro <23hiro@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] apparently nice summary of small linux pcs
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:20:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFSF3XNe601BQd15oA5sJumf+KWo4ZTYJ_pHpWY9v5jfWk_+bQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120717191240.7D7B3B827@mail.bitblocks.com>
On 7/17/12, Bakul Shah <bakul@bitblocks.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:51:13 BST Ethan Grammatikidis <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
> wrote:
>> Actually I've toyed with the idea of a "Plan 9 from 8-bit space". It
>> would be a fun challenge, I think, and I'd be interested to find
>> exactly what compromises would be needed. It may even be less of a
>> challenge than writing drivers for the crap peripherals ARM SOCs always
>> seem to be burdened with, but what could you do with it when it was
>> done?
>
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-07-17 19:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-17 17:20 arnold
2012-06-17 18:49 ` Nick LaForge
2012-06-17 19:00 ` hiro
2012-06-17 21:20 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-06-17 21:36 ` hiro
2012-06-17 21:44 ` hiro
2012-06-18 10:52 ` Yaroslav
2012-06-18 11:33 ` pmarin
2012-06-18 12:21 ` Nicolas Bercher
2012-07-16 8:44 ` opryymak
2012-07-16 10:16 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2012-07-16 10:35 ` Lluís Batlle i Rossell
2012-07-16 13:49 ` Wes Kussmaul
2012-07-17 16:51 ` Ethan Grammatikidis
2012-07-17 16:53 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-17 17:33 ` Paul Lalonde
2012-07-17 17:40 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-07-17 17:34 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-07-17 18:16 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-17 18:20 ` Kurt H Maier
2012-07-17 18:43 ` Anthony Sorace
2012-07-17 18:49 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-17 19:09 ` Eli Cohen
2012-07-17 19:11 ` hiro
2012-07-17 20:10 ` Eli Cohen
2012-07-17 20:33 ` Steve Simon
2012-07-17 20:49 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-17 22:01 ` hiro
2012-07-17 17:36 ` Charles Forsyth
2012-07-17 19:12 ` Bakul Shah
2012-07-17 19:16 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-17 19:54 ` Oleksandr Iakovliev
2012-07-17 20:12 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-17 19:20 ` hiro [this message]
[not found] ` <CAFSF3XNe601BQd15oA5sJumf+KWo4ZTYJ_pHpWY9v5jfWk_+bQ@mail.gmail.c>
2012-07-17 19:33 ` erik quanstrom
2012-07-17 20:02 ` Bakul Shah
2012-07-16 15:08 ` Jack Norton
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