On 7/17/12, Bakul Shah <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:51:13 BST Ethan Grammatikidis <[email protected]> > wrote: >> Actually I've toyed with the idea of a "Plan 9 from 8-bit space". It >> would be a fun challenge, I think, and I'd be interested to find >> exactly what compromises would be needed. It may even be less of a >> challenge than writing drivers for the crap peripherals ARM SOCs always >> seem to be burdened with, but what could you do with it when it was >> done? > > What would be possible is to build a general purpose > building block. Something like this: > - provide a tiny thread library > - provide 9p over USB|serial|UDP > - implement a simple 9p server framework & export a server > side interface where one can plug in sensor/actuator > specific routines and specify the FS layout via a string. > - implement a namespace convention for discovering > capabilities (for example a "help/" dir) > - it should be implementable as a verilog block some day! > may be not but imagining that keeps the design simple. > > Actually it doesn't have to be 9p. It can be something > simpler.
well, then do it if you think so.
