From: Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] CDC ACM nusb/serial driver
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2020 22:35:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200801053512.GA11004@alice> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5a20aa0c-7882-404c-ae40-6542542cea6f@www.fastmail.com>
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".
Cheers,
Anthony
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-01 5:35 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 [this message]
2020-08-01 15:34 ` Ethan Gardener
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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