From: ori@eigenstate.org
To: 9fans@9fans.net
Subject: Re: [9fans] Solo factotum
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2025 12:31:53 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <FE370983FDDEEBABD062C7D9FFF1BEA3@eigenstate.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8a60199a-6f49-490c-b299-6455f0981b8a@app.fastmail.com>
Quoth David Arroyo <david@arroyo.cc>:
>
> Honestly, my own motivations are not security related. I just think it's
> cool. I like the idea of attaching a little computer to my computer to
> extend it with almost zero configuration. One could imagine a class of USB
> devices that only speak 9P, which operating systems would automatically
> mount when they're plugged in. In the same vein, I'm interested in
> adding 9p over virtio-vsock support to 9front, as a zero-config way for
> a hypervisor to expose a factotum, or a /dev/draw, to a 9front guest.
fwiw, I've done this before -- for a startup, I wrote firmware that talked
9p over a bulk usb pipe. It wasn't really worth doing the USB serial bits,
a dumb bulk endpoint was enough.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-12-31 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-12-29 10:57 [9fans] Solo factotum (was: Enterable namespaces: /proc/pid/$ns/srv) David Arroyo
2025-12-29 14:40 ` sirjofri via 9fans
2025-12-30 6:28 ` David Arroyo
2025-12-30 17:56 ` [9fans] Solo factotum Dworkin Muller
2025-12-30 21:37 ` sirjofri via 9fans
2025-12-30 23:29 ` ori
2025-12-31 4:24 ` Steve Simon
2025-12-31 5:21 ` David Arroyo
2025-12-31 17:31 ` ori [this message]
2025-12-31 21:47 ` Steve Simon
2025-12-31 9:40 ` sirjofri via 9fans
2025-12-31 16:26 ` ori
2025-12-31 8:51 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2025-12-29 15:32 ` [9fans] Solo factotum (was: Enterable namespaces: /proc/pid/$ns/srv) Shawn Rutledge
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