Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-09-21 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021, at 12:05 PM, sirjofri wrote: > 9front on pinephone is actually a project I'm interested in. I checked > out some details: > > The pinephone boot loader can boot from ext4 partition, so it seems > possible. We'd have to use some ext4 filesystem (eg the one made by > sigrid)

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-09-21 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Mon, Sep 20, 2021, at 9:23 AM, hiro wrote: > i think the main reason people are willing to fall for the android > platform is bec. there is no good long-term supply of updated phone > hardware with backwards-compatible interfaces. Probably, but when do Linux kernel interfaces remain

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-09-20 Thread sirjofri
Re ext2: Afaik sigrids ext stuff also supports ext4, and only ext4 (and a non-ext format) is mentioned on the supported filesystems list on the pinephone wiki. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-09-20 Thread Conor Williams
ext2 is around much longer and seems to use the same driver mount thingy on pmint On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 11:06 AM sirjofri wrote: > 9front on pinephone is actually a project I'm interested in. I checked > out some details: > > The pinephone boot loader can boot from ext4 partition, so it

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-09-20 Thread Conor Williams
ethan you think your no-one driver/mobule is not too bad i also something something something /c2021081105:37 On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:58 AM Conor Williams wrote: > and dr john nelson in University Limerick -- a fine reputable uni down > south ireland (with > loads of good professor types and

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-09-20 Thread sirjofri
9front on pinephone is actually a project I'm interested in. I checked out some details: The pinephone boot loader can boot from ext4 partition, so it seems possible. We'd have to use some ext4 filesystem (eg the one made by sigrid) and add it to the boot filesystem. With a bit of luck (and

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-09-20 Thread Conor Williams
and dr john nelson in University Limerick -- a fine reputable uni down south ireland (with loads of good professor types and students (most of them anyways) stole my fyp and bought me lunch and said nothing about nothing and then told me to fuck off over the phone when i was enquiring about doing

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-09-20 Thread Conor Williams
and tim roberts on an unrelated topic is a bunch of un-ethical hackers diminishing the intellect of the humanity /c:202109200851 hack the planet my fiends... On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:45 AM Conor Williams wrote: > i figured out the random hack which messed me up 12 years ago 2 days ago > /c:f20

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-09-20 Thread Conor Williams
i figured out the random hack which messed me up 12 years ago 2 days ago /c:f20 and the buda bug is fixed on my system - took me 3 days strait to find it... and the fuseblk hack took a while /c:2021 On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:39 AM Conor Williams wrote: > if it is a vfat filesystem it is ok

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-09-20 Thread Conor Williams
if it is a vfat filesystem it is ok On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:37 AM Conor Williams wrote: > some of the fuseblk disc/k drivers/modules on peppermint which is a > flavour of ubuntu > are not even in the kernel space and there are mount.XYZ processes left > open which are > wide open to

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-09-20 Thread Conor Williams
some of the fuseblk disc/k drivers/modules on peppermint which is a flavour of ubuntu are not even in the kernel space and there are mount.XYZ processes left open which are wide open to attack (with # fuser -p ) /c09 for those chips tings On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:24 AM hiro <23h...@gmail.com>

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-09-20 Thread hiro
i think the main reason people are willing to fall for the android platform is bec. there is no good long-term supply of updated phone hardware with backwards-compatible interfaces. a lot of qualcomm and mediatek chipsets are being built, but instead of documentation they only ship half-baked

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-09-20 Thread Ethan Gardener
tl;dr: forget inferno, port plan 9 to the pine phone. On Mon, Sep 20, 2021, at 6:43 AM, Dave Eckhardt wrote: > > Anyone know if this project went anywhere? > > > > https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/lectures/L05_Purge_Proposal.pdf I had to laugh at one of the slides. Inferno running natively on "x86

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-09-19 Thread Dave Eckhardt
> Anyone know if this project went anywhere? > > https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/lectures/L05_Purge_Proposal.pdf Sadly, not. One issue is that modern Android releases don't support 32-bit executables, and at the time that project was attempted Inferno was somewhat 32-bit (I haven't looked since).

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-08-19 Thread unobe
Quoth Jack Johnson : > Anyone know if this project went anywhere? > > https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/lectures/L05_Purge_Proposal.pdf > > A Hellaphone revisit. Maybe e-mail davide+reception...@cs.cmu.edu , since it's one of his lectures? -- 9fans: 9fans

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-08-06 Thread Jack Johnson
Anyone know if this project went anywhere? https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/lectures/L05_Purge_Proposal.pdf A Hellaphone revisit. On Mon, Feb 1, 2021 at 12:48 PM sirjofri wrote: > Hello, > > many many really cool ideas. Most of them get a big heart icon, but I > don't want to repeat your ideas. So

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-02-08 Thread Jeff Sickel
See http://mirtchovski.com/p9/dis/ > On Feb 8, 2021, at 6:26 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > > there was a native plan9 dis interpreter that would run simple command line > applications. on Andrey’s website i think. -- 9fans: 9fans Permalink:

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-05 Thread David Arroyo
> (1) Porting the Plan 9 kernel to a microkernel architecture, such as > Mach. This would give Plan 9 instant access to the whole range of > hardware supported by the underlying microkernel. This is kind of the opposite idea, but you could port the NetBSD rump kernel to Plan 9. It can

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-05 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Mon, Feb 1, 2021, at 7:16 AM, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: > Anthony Sorace writes: > > (6) Incorporating Inferno's Dis virtual machine into the Plan 9 kernel, > so Plan 9 can run Dis binaries natively, without having to run the > Inferno emulator (emu) as a user process.

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-03 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
Here is some earlier work by Tim Newsham using a styx library by Charles/Vita Nuova: https://github.com/9nut/styxbrowser > Android-related: > > (a) An Android "app" that presents an Android phone's telephone and SMS > messaging facilities as a 9P filesystem. This would enable Plan 9 >

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-03 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021, at 11:08 AM, pouya+lists.9f...@nohup.io wrote: > [eeke...@fastmail.fm] > > I specifically say "more popular" because popularity affects the > number of developers available. > > Off-topic and perhaps unpopular view, but I *like* the fact that Plan > 9 is not (significantly)

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-03 Thread ori
> > 1. Project ideas. One of the key parts of the application is the > > project ideas page. If you’ve got ideas that seem like they’d be a > > Plan 9-related: > > (1) Porting the Plan 9 kernel to a microkernel architecture, such as > Mach. This would give Plan 9 instant access to the whole

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-03 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
[eeke...@fastmail.fm] > I specifically say "more popular" because popularity affects the number of developers available. Off-topic and perhaps unpopular view, but I *like* the fact that Plan 9 is not (significantly) more popular. Popularity has ruined many a promising creation. Although please

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-03 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, at 8:29 AM, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > > Plan 9-related: > > > > (1) Porting the Plan 9 kernel to a microkernel architecture, such as > > Mach. This would give Plan 9 instant access to the whole range of > > hardware supported by the underlying microkernel.

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-03 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Mon, Feb 1, 2021, at 8:46 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > > Inferno-related: These should be posted to inferno-os too, but some are there already. (It's on Google Groups.) Note that they're starting work on a 64-bit DIS; Charles has just announced a fork for working on it.

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-02-03 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Mon, Feb 1, 2021, at 9:47 PM, sirjofri wrote: > > (a) An Android "app" that presents an Android phone's telephone and SMS > >     messaging facilities as a 9P filesystem.  This would enable Plan 9 > >     and Inferno applications to place/receive voice calls and > >     send/receive text

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-02 Thread tlaronde
Hello, On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 07:16:58AM +, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: > Anthony Sorace writes: > > > Hello! After a few years away, we?ll be applying to Google?s Summer of Code > > program again this year. > > ... > > > 1. Project ideas. One of the key parts of the

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas

2021-02-01 Thread sirjofri
Hello, many many really cool ideas. Most of them get a big heart icon, but I don't want to repeat your ideas. So consider this one large heart for all of them ♥️. My annotations are inline. 01.02.2021 08:16:58 cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org: (2) A Zoom/video conferencing application for

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-01 Thread Steve Simon
someone at the land (peter bosch?) dis a haupage video capture card. i am pretty sure i have a copy of the driver and user level app somewhere. this worked on an old pci card i had at one time. -Steve On 1 Feb 2021, at 8:32 pm, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: Anthony Sorace

[9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-01 Thread cigar562hfsp952fans
Anthony Sorace writes: > Hello! After a few years away, we’ll be applying to Google’s Summer of Code > program again this year. ... > 1. Project ideas. One of the key parts of the application is the > project ideas page. If you’ve got ideas that seem like they’d be a Plan 9-related: (1)