On 1/28/22, Bakul Shah <ba...@iitbombay.org> wrote: > The idea: > - make it very easy to create hardware gadgets by > providing a firmware/hardware building block that > talks 9p on the host interface side & interfaces > with device specific hardware. > > [ ... ] > Sounds very appealing.
There's a UEFI-based development that puts 9P2000 inside the modern BIOS - excuse the imprecise language: I played with it and my ignorance caused me to get frustrated before I could accomplish anything with it. I'll dig up a github reference if anyone asks. I found it while searching for something quite different. > This will probably have to ride on USB first. A verilog > implementation would be useful in an FPGA! > I never understood why USB receives so much attention (but thanks to all those who valiantly tried to tame that wild beast!). What does it do that PoE doesn't do infinitely better? > Would this be a useful component? If such a thing were > available, what would you want to build with it? > What I would want from such a tool is its availability within educational institutions so we stop teaching greed technology to learners and lower the knowledge entry bar that Intel and Microsoft - and their allies - have created (that, I make no apologies for, is Politics, the Politics of Technological Domination). Lucio. ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/Ta4e584a373b05553-Ma773a08b767b5dc5e0cf85f4 Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
