[9fans] Small Plan9 box suggestions.
Hi all, Can anyone help shed some light in my search for a low power minimal plan 9 hardware setup to start experimenting with. Has anyone had success running plan 9 on a Fit PC (the only atom box we have access to)? Gumstix would be ideal, but their plan 9 support is a bit half baked right now. Wireless support would be a huge plus. We are trying to do a bit of research into robotic applications of plan 9. The p9 filesystem protocol seems like a real neat method to acquire resources of nearby bots. Allowing for very minimal, modularized robot configurations. Any tips? Am I out of my mind? Thanks, Jason
Re: [9fans] Small Plan9 box suggestions.
Jason Dreisbach wrote: Hi all, Can anyone help shed some light in my search for a low power minimal plan 9 hardware setup to start experimenting with. Has anyone had success running plan 9 on a Fit PC (the only atom box we have access to)? Gumstix would be ideal, but their plan 9 support is a bit half baked right now. Wireless support would be a huge plus. We are trying to do a bit of research into robotic applications of plan 9. The p9 filesystem protocol seems like a real neat method to acquire resources of nearby bots. Allowing for very minimal, modularized robot configurations. Any tips? Am I out of my mind? Thanks, Jason Jason, I am currently attempting a little ROV using some 9p for control, but I am using inferno hosted on linux. That might be the quicker way to get your 'bots speaking 9p. I am doing this because right off the bat I need a webcam. I also need to prototype this very quickly so mucking about in hardware drivers and OS nuances is not an option. Sounds like fun! I'm curious what you come up with! -Jack
Re: [9fans] Small Plan9 box suggestions.
Does inferno have support for (a) webcam(s)? Or are you using linux for capturing things from the webcam? On Feb 25, 2011 9:14 AM, Jack Norton j...@0x6a.com wrote: Jason Dreisbach wrote: Hi all, Can anyone help shed some light in my search for a low power minimal plan 9 hardware setup to start experimenting with. Has anyone had success running plan 9 on a Fit PC (the only atom box we have access to)? Gumstix would be ideal, but their plan 9 support is a bit half baked right now. Wireless support would be a huge plus. We are trying to do a bit of research into robotic applications of plan 9. The p9 filesystem protocol seems like a real neat method to acquire resources of nearby bots. Allowing for very minimal, modularized robot configurations. Any tips? Am I out of my mind? Thanks, Jason Jason, I am currently attempting a little ROV using some 9p for control, but I am using inferno hosted on linux. That might be the quicker way to get your 'bots speaking 9p. I am doing this because right off the bat I need a webcam. I also need to prototype this very quickly so mucking about in hardware drivers and OS nuances is not an option. Sounds like fun! I'm curious what you come up with! -Jack
Re: [9fans] Small Plan9 box suggestions.
wireless support: se lucho's note about his almost-done wifi driver. That said, you might want wireless usb with the atheros chip (6000 series?) that does most of the wireless stack. Charles knows more. webcam: is this a usb webcam? USB support is getting better. low power -- is an atom mobo low enough? The interno + 9p approach is not a bad idea. In fact, inferno might be ideal for what you are doing. ron
Re: [9fans] Small Plan9 box suggestions.
Jacob Todd wrote: Does inferno have support for (a) webcam(s)? Or are you using linux for capturing things from the webcam? On Feb 25, 2011 9:14 AM, Jack Norton j...@0x6a.com mailto:j...@0x6a.com wrote: Jason Dreisbach wrote: Hi all, Can anyone help shed some light in my search for a low power minimal plan 9 hardware setup to start experimenting with. Has anyone had success running plan 9 on a Fit PC (the only atom box we have access to)? Gumstix would be ideal, but their plan 9 support is a bit half baked right now. Wireless support would be a huge plus. We are trying to do a bit of research into robotic applications of plan 9. The p9 filesystem protocol seems like a real neat method to acquire resources of nearby bots. Allowing for very minimal, modularized robot configurations. Any tips? Am I out of my mind? Thanks, Jason Jason, I am currently attempting a little ROV using some 9p for control, but I am using inferno hosted on linux. That might be the quicker way to get your 'bots speaking 9p. I am doing this because right off the bat I need a webcam. I also need to prototype this very quickly so mucking about in hardware drivers and OS nuances is not an option. Sounds like fun! I'm curious what you come up with! -Jack It's a USB webcam (logitech POS is the model I believe :) ). Right now I am leaving the webcam for last, so right now linux is providing the drivers and I am watching it 'quick and dirty' with a seperate xawtv window. The webcam is my last step because it really is just outside the reach of my personal programing capabilities (I'm a physicist -- god help you if I ever have to write code for you...). In all reality I may get as far as an ugly hack involving some host multimedia converters and file2chan, but that is optimistic at best right now. Once the concept is limping along, I can then really attempt a native webcam of some sort. In any event I've got the impression that inferno could be really cool in a robotics environment, hence the motivation. -Jack
