On 4/15/06, Anthony Sorace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > personally, i'd love firewire/ieee1394 support, although that's mostly > because i've got a small stack of such disks available to me, mostly > sitting idle. i believe someone (peter bosch?) was working on this a > few years ago.
I agree - firewire bus/device class drivers + at least ohci1394 would be a great thing... > for getting familiar with the plan 9 interfaces and such, you can get > started by just writing a driver that does something simple, > software-only. i found that quite educational getting started. go > write /dev/rot13 or something. for something trivial with real > hardware... has anyone ever bothered to write a driver for the PC > speaker? that should be fairly easy (but then, it is a PC, so i > wouldn't be shocked if not). > For a little project - why not create kernel mode port of linux coffee machine driver? (somewhere in the HOWTOs :D) Not so long ago I tried to plunge through SCSI code to make Plan9 work on my machine without Xen&co, but I decided to withdraw when I found I'd have to write a compiler for firmware (and possibly rewrite BSD/Linux firmware) in addition to driver itself... (Adaptec AIC-7892 - UltraWide2...) -- Paul Lasek
