Wow, That sounds cool.
Thanks, Chris > On Sep 22, 2016, at 6:49 PM, michaelian ennis <michaelian.en...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > Not exactly what you meant but Coraid did implement a something like this > that had 9p on it. Sort of. It was an ARM based PCIe card spoke 9p over > something like IL without the IP (bwc called it EL) using network ports on > the card. > > Sometimes they appear on ebay as "coraid mass storage NIC" or some such. Not > the repurposed SuperMicro Cards but something that looks mor complicated with > a SO-DIMM socket on it. > > The ARM CPU was also used for other services running on/for the platform that > were performed by the card. The card could be powered by POE so the chassis > could be powered down and the card could still be accessed. The firmware on > the card was, IIRC, not quite plan9 but constructed mostly from plan9. > > Ian
