Re: [9fans] 9P via serial links or USB

[hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com>]

There was some stuff available even before 2004
I think I've used once one of these:
http://intr.overt.org/gphotofs/
http://www.hep.phy.cam.ac.uk/~lester/gphoto2-fuse-fs/

On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 11:53 PM, Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de> wrote:
> * hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> There already is a gphoto2 fs for fuse if I remember correctly.
>
> Last time I heared, it was just planned.
> Perhaps I'm not up2date and you've got a pointer for me ?
>
>> Though I haven't heard of any camera with 9p yet.
>
> Yep, that would be the next step: provide a toolkit for embedded
> developers and encourage them to use it instead of the bogus
> pptp+proprietary stuff.
>
>
> Meanwhile I've made up another front:
> I'm negotiating with an developer/producer of power meters and
> similar products, which log their data to SD cards and have an
> ethernet/IP interface.
>
> At this point I'm thinking about an more thin approach for those
> devices: put 9P on the lowest level possible, no IP, but a very
> thin protocol (eg. somethink like IL, but directly ontop of eth ?),
> just enough to carry 9P messages. Just an error-correcting (not
> necessarily in-order) datagram protocol, which does not need an
> explicit address assignment (eg. builtin 64bit device addresses ?).
> These devices essentially just speak 9P - multiple devices on
> the same network interface are represented within the fs hierachy.
>
>
> cu
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