Re: [9front] Thoughts on Wayland?

[Eli Cohen <echoline@gmail.com>]

no, draw or anything else can be anywhere on the network, at least as
long as the interconnection is fast enough for it to work properly

On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 1:04 PM Eli Cohen <echoline@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> also as far as mmap goes and what it even means, I have no idea, but a
> stupid younger version of me, who was myself at the time, managed to
> change this audio driver
> http://git.9front.org/plan9front/plan9front/HEAD/sys/src/9/pc/audioac97.c/raw
> to support some mmap'ed I/O ac97 chips. the part where it says ismmio
> = 1, that's a flag that those chips are mmap'ed ac97 chips. but now
> I'm older and still honestly have no idea what you're talking about
>
> On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 12:59 PM Eli Cohen <echoline@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > actually, drawing fast locally (and GPU stuff especially for
> > computation) is definitely a plan 9 concept too and is also being
> > worked on separately from wayland, and possibly on linux... so... plan
> > 9 is an OS for networks that may include plan 9 machines, linux
> > machines, iPhones, etc... it's a "unix made out of a network of
> > computers" not a "network made out of unix computers"
> >
> > On Sun, Aug 4, 2024 at 12:54 PM Eli Cohen <echoline@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > always better to be a willow that bends than the strongest oak in a storm :)
> > >
> > > there's a common misconception that plan 9 is an OS for a computer. plan 9 is an OS for a network. drawing fast locally is not a plan 9 concept. plan 9 is a 9P multiplexer. a wayland shim for linux/mac/bsd/etc that renders to draw somewhere else on the network would be good and appreciated and a relevant plan 9 concept and people are working on it... but for a fast local wayland implementation, that's what linux is, and linux can be and is a part of plan 9 which is an OS for a network
> > >
> > > On Sun, Aug 4, 2024, 12:46 PM Stuart Morrow <morrow.stuart@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> How do you share memory over rcpu?