On Sun, Dec 31, 2017 at 7:27 AM, Rui Carmo <rui.carmo@gmail.com> wrote:

> I honestly don’t think Plan9 or Inferno will become “general use” without
> (at the very least) a modern browser, but that was not what motivated me to
> post here.
>
> Inferno, dis and 9p seem like a good fit for embedded devices, and having
> run it successfully on a Raspberry Pi a few months ago (
> https://bitbucket.org/infpi/inferno-rpi), I was wondering if the kernel
> and network stack would be shrunk down to something like an ESP8266
> (although don’t think that has enough heap space).
>

I started porting a 9p library and writing an fs for esp8266 using
espressif sdk, but stopped once I found out tls1.2 isn't supported (not
fixable; bug in firmware).
I think esp32 is a better choice, but then, why not use rpi-zero or other
ARM, MIPS devices. Arguments for esp32 for power budget reasons might be
exaggerated a little (see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDpuBJYFJ7Y&t=131s
)
there is also proprietary firmware involved.

In my opinion, esp8266 should be categorized as an "attractive nuisance".


> A while back there was the Aijuboard (https://www.indiegogo.com/
> projects/aijuboard#/), but nothing else seems to have popped up since
> 2015, and any industrial applications of Inferno that might be interesting
> are likely squirreled away in commercial companies...
>
> So I’d like to know if anyone here knows about recent efforts to run
> Inferno on other tiny machines...
>
> Happy New Year,
>
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