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Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 21:20:55 +0200
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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.