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From: "Ethan Gardener" <eekee57@fastmail.fm>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] CDC ACM nusb/serial driver
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2020 16:34:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1637706c-a288-42bb-8027-a2775d8a7214@www.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200801053512.GA11004@alice>

On Sat, Aug 1, 2020, at 6:35 AM, Anthony Martin wrote:
> Ethan Gardener <eekee57@fastmail.fm> once said:
> > i remember being told you can't use 9p over serial directly, you need
> > another layer. i can't clearly remember what that layer should do,
> > but i think it was preserve message boundaries. this was all long ago,
> > before 9front.
> 
> Before the 9P2000 rewrite, the kernel required the underlying transport
> protocol to preserve message boundaries. You needed a little something
> extra between 9P and TCP, for example, but not for IL.
> 
> To quote Charles, "all you need is a transport protocol that reliably
> preserves content and order".

Ah, that's good to know. Thanks.


  reply	other threads:[~2020-08-01 15:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-07-30 21:18 Eli Cohen
2020-07-30 21:48 ` Eli Cohen
2020-07-31 15:38   ` [9front] " ori
2020-07-31 11:18 ` [9front] " Ethan Gardener
2020-08-01  5:35   ` Anthony Martin
2020-08-01 15:34     ` Ethan Gardener [this message]
2020-08-01 16:45       ` Eli Cohen
2020-08-01 20:32         ` Ethan Gardener
2020-08-02 13:34           ` cinap_lenrek
2020-08-03  6:27             ` Eli Cohen
2020-10-05 21:53               ` Eli Cohen
2020-08-01 15:34 ` cinap_lenrek

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