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 <a...@9srv.net> 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) 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. (2) A Zoom/video conferencing application for Plan 9. Enough said. :) (3) Happauge/Brooktree BTTV/video capture drivers. AFAIK, Plan 9 can only use USB Web cams. (4) Port SANE (Scanner Access Now Easy) tools as a Plan 9 file system. That would give Plan 9 instant access to a huge range of flatbed & sheet-fed document scanners. (5) An NFS sever for Plan 9. Unix machines have a lot of trouble handling edge cases encountered on 9P filesystems (such as the number of hard links to directories). An NFS server would make it much easier for Unix/Linux and Plan 9 to get along happily. (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. Inferno-related: (A) A 64-bit version of Dis, which was designed as a 32-bit (31-bit?) architecture. (B) Porting Inferno to modern video game consoles, such as the Nintendo Switch family. Coolness. (C) Creating a secure version of Dis. The way that Dis handles allocated/freed memory isn't particularly safe, and can leak sensitive data (such as encryption keys). It doesn't have a way to whiten memory, or to mark ranges of memory as non-swappable. This could be done by adding new VM instructions, or on a per-module basis by adding new module flags. (D) Porting Nemo/LSUB's "OSHAD" to Plan 9. OSHAD is an authentication system (implemented in Inferno) which allows you to provide passwords or acknowledge actions from a separate, wireless hand-held device. (E) A postscript/PDF viewer for Inferno. Enough said. :) 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 and Inferno applications to place/receive voice calls and send/receive text messages across a network. This could be done by extending bhgv's existing Android port of Inferno, or as a separtate, stand-alone server app. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T1c300cdbd9941edb-M627e2da16ac2f567361984f0 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
