From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20091126225334.GA25437@nibiru.local> References: <20091124180118.GB31148@nibiru.local> <20091126225334.GA25437@nibiru.local> Date: Fri, 27 Nov 2009 08:24:53 +0100 Message-ID: From: hiro <23hiro@googlemail.com> To: weigelt@metux.de, Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [9fans] 9P via serial links or USB Topicbox-Message-UUID: a39c73dc-ead5-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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 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 > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > =C2=A0Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ > > =C2=A0phone: =C2=A0+49 36207 519931 =C2=A0email: weigelt@metux.de > =C2=A0mobile: +49 174 7066481 =C2=A0 icq: =C2=A0 210169427 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 = =C2=A0 =C2=A0 skype: nekrad666 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > =C2=A0Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >