Oh. That's been discussed a bit on 9fans. Generally, the opinion is that since Linux breaks the kernel API every 3 months, it would be a useless effort. You'd have to provide a hell of a lot, too, since Linux drivers don't talk exclusively to something like Apple's DeviceKit.
On Wed, May 19, 2010 at 5:43 PM, Jens Staal <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] >> >> 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 >> >> -- >> 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 > > -- > 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 -- 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
