On Tue, 17 Jul 2012 15:33:59 EDT erik quanstrom <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > what i was trying to say before, is that there is already > some research in the area. it doesn't have to be proven possible. > > see: > > "9p for embedded devices" http://iwp9.inf.uth.gr/. > and "levitating across the river styx" > http://4e.iwp9.org/papers/levitation.pdf
I have read the styx papers. The concept is of course not new. What I am talking about is packaging up as a reusable component. Specifically - server side api - ability to discover capabilities. no new client side drivers for each new device. As for "simpler than 9p" I had a different thing in mind from what is in various iwp9 papers. Not worth talking about in the abstract.
