Re: [9fans] Writing drivers in Plan 9

2008-09-04 Thread hugo rivera
Sadly I cannot find time for Plan 9 for now. I am just too busy with my job in the university and preparing me for some tests in October. Hopefully I can start this thing in November. 2008/9/3 Tom Lieber [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:40 AM, hugo rivera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

[9fans] Writing drivers in Plan 9

2008-04-15 Thread hugo rivera
Hello: I've been using Inferno and Plan 9 for almost a year. I certainly love Plan 9's ideas and concepts, and I'd be glad to finally move forward and leave Unix behind, but for now it is imposible for me, since my work does not allow me this (I do data analysis for some physics experiment using

Re: [9fans] Writing drivers in Plan 9

2008-04-15 Thread erik quanstrom
Given that you're already into Inferno as well as Plan 9, I think a really nice way to get into driver development is with emu drivers for Inferno. The basic structure is the same as for native OS drivers in either system: implement a small set of entry points (fooattach, fooread, c), making

Re: [9fans] Writing drivers in Plan 9

2008-04-15 Thread a
i think this confuses implementing a Dev interface with writing a device driver. for many devices, the Dev interface is already taken care of. for example, serial, ethernet, disk devices using sd implement an interface to devsd, ethernet. i think the Dev interface is still the right place