As far as I understood it Linuxemu is a way to run GNU/Linux applications in a virtualized Debian on top of Plan9. The thing I was talking about was rather utilizing Linux (the kernel) for drivers etc like NDISwrapper used to be used to run Windows drivers in Linux until native drivers came along.
2010/5/19 Jorden M <[email protected]> > It's called Linuxemu. I'm sure the developer would love help. > > On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Jens Staal <[email protected]> wrote: > > [sorry about hijacking] > > Actually I was thinking a bit recently.... what about an "inverse > glendix"? > > That is, rather than porting Plan9 to Linux, how about porting Linux to > > Plan9? > > The thought was basically - would it be possible to make some sort of > Plan9 > > "NDISwrapper"/"FUSE" for Linux kernel modules for drivers, filesystems > etc > > that could be mounted/run in either Plan9 or Plan9/APE userspace? If I > have > > understood it correctly, this is what L4, Hurd and MINIX tries to do to > get > > good hardware support fast. I am not saying that this in anyway would be > a > > BETTER solution than Glendix, rather a complementary one geared towards > > people that are more Plan9 than Linux but still would like to be able to > run > > it on their toaster without writing every driver themselves. > > > > 2010/5/19 EBo <[email protected]> > >> > >> On Wed, 19 May 2010 11:51:44 -0700 (PDT), vh4x0r > >> <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > Hi, I'm interested in contributing to the project for creation of a > >> > distro based on Glendix and Gentoo. I have acquainted myself with > >> > Glendix, and also have a lot of experience with Gentoo. Can you please > >> > provide me with some pointers about where to start ? > >> > >> I have an experimental ebuild on sys-kernel/glendix-sources, and some > >> other stuff you can use as a basis to start if it would be at all > helpful. > >> For the next while I am focusing on my plan9 work which was accepted for > >> this years GSoC. Some of that work might also be of use to backport to > >> Glendix. > >> > >> EBo -- > >> > >> -- > >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > >> [email protected]<glendix%[email protected]> > >> For more options, visit this group at > >> http://groups.google.com/group/glendix?hl=en > > > > -- > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > [email protected]<glendix%[email protected]> > > For more options, visit this group at > > http://groups.google.com/group/glendix?hl=en > > -- > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<glendix%[email protected]> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/glendix?hl=en > -- To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/glendix?hl=en
