Re: [9fans] porting p9p to Google's NaCl

2009-06-12 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
>> anyone working on this? > > What's so great about NaCl? Isn't it just a fancy way to start > QEmu/VirtualBox/VMWare? it has the advantages of JVM in the browser, but at native speed and using any language with a compiler that can produce code for the inner sandbox (restricted instructions and

Re: [9fans] Different representations of the same

2009-06-12 Thread lucio
> Sure, but if *each* file can have more than one representation then > where's the best place for the ctl thing to be? In each subdirectory? > At the top of the hierarchy (accepting the full path names, of course)? Well, assume you have a canonical representation for a given file, I'd have the ct

Re: [9fans] Different representations of the same

2009-06-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> > I thought you might want a "ctl" file into which you write the > > representation you want and that magically creates a new file or > > directory. > > Sure, but if *each* file can have more than one representation then > where's the best place for the ctl thing to be? In each subdirectory? >

Re: [9fans] critique of sockets API

2009-06-12 Thread Bhanu Nagendra Pisupati
do you have a comparison to other similar projects like 1. styx on a brick http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/rcx_paper.html 2. 9p for imbedded devices http://iwp9.inf.uth.gr/iwp9_proceedings08.pdf and or other information on your work? in particular, what hardware are you using?

Re: [9fans] Different representations of the same

2009-06-12 Thread Roman V Shaposhnik
On Thu, 2009-06-11 at 06:49 +0200, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote: > > but at that point it becomes no more appealing than the content > > negotiation techniques of HTTP. > > I thought you might want a "ctl" file into which you write the > representation you want and that magically creates a new file

Re: [9fans] porting p9p to Google's NaCl

2009-06-12 Thread Roman V Shaposhnik
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 13:04 -0700, Skip Tavakkolian wrote: > anyone working on this? What's so great about NaCl? Isn't it just a fancy way to start QEmu/VirtualBox/VMWare? Thanks, Roman.

Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-12 Thread James Tomaschke
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Balwinder S Dheeman wrote: > Great, but is in-compatible with QEMU. Using KVM(QEMU) it is working for me. At first I got some aux/vga error on init, after recompiling /sys/src/cmd it seemed to work just fine. Did not investigate any further. -BEG

[9fans] porting p9p to Google's NaCl

2009-06-12 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
anyone working on this?

[9fans] Audio recordings from a couple of IWP9 talks.

2009-06-12 Thread Uriel
A while ago I got around publishing the recordings of a couple of talks from last year's IWP9, unfortunately due to my general laziness and incompetence only a handful of talks could be recorded. Fortunately one of the recorded talks was Sape's semaphores talk, which was absolutely excellent. Noah

Re: [9fans] p9p venti problem

2009-06-12 Thread J. R. Mauro
On Jun 11, 2009, at 23:34, Venkatesh Srinivas wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 11:00 PM, J.R. Mauro wrote: I can't help with this in particular, but QEMU does some really low-level hackery to the point where it wouldn't compile with GCC 4, so it's possible something like that is going on her

Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-12 Thread erik quanstrom
> > I've just pushed out kernel sources and binaries to incorporate > > Aki's mtrr and vesa changes. The combination makes monitor=vesa > > run quite a bit faster; we saw a factor of three speed improvement > > in one case. > > > > It's still limited to a single processor, but we've got someone >

Re: [9fans] faster vesa driver

2009-06-12 Thread Balwinder S Dheeman
On 06/10/2009 02:51 AM, ge...@plan9.bell-labs.com wrote: > I've just pushed out kernel sources and binaries to incorporate > Aki's mtrr and vesa changes. The combination makes monitor=vesa > run quite a bit faster; we saw a factor of three speed improvement > in one case. > > It's still limited t

Re: [9fans] critique of sockets API

2009-06-12 Thread Eris Discordia
just to correct a basic fact, the size of the instruction set doesn't define RISC instruction set (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC "instruction set size"). Heh. I did refer to exactly that article and consequently inserted "adding to the complexity of each primitive" as well as the modifier "

Re: [9fans] critique of sockets API

2009-06-12 Thread Eris Discordia
s/could be/is/ From real world product experience across multiple operating systems and architectures. So there is at least one example to support the case for callbacks. I am pretty convinced there are many more examples. --On Thursday, June 11, 2009 19:34 -0400 "Devon H. O'Dell" wrote:

Re: [9fans] p9p venti problem

2009-06-12 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
> % unvac -t vac:8ab4746b0fb06da481158624afb7509cefc35e07 > unvac: vacfsopen: read too small 1: asked for 0 need at least 300 > > % venti/copy 'tcp!localhost!17034' 'tcp!localhost!17034' > vac:8ab4746b0fb06da481158624afb7509cefc35e07 > venti/copy: reading block 0

Re: [9fans] p9p venti problem

2009-06-12 Thread Venkatesh Srinivas
Inside plan9port/src/cmd/venti/srv/lump.c, in readlump(), could you check that the score being read is a sane one? (not the zero-score) Just printing it out for now would be enough. Thanks, -- vs

Re: [9fans] p9p venti problem

2009-06-12 Thread Adrian Tritschler
2009/6/12 Venkatesh Srinivas : > Adrian, how recent is you p9p checkout? A daily update from the mercurial repository. Perhaps I should be a little less bleeding edge... > Also, could you set 'verbose' to 1 in plan9port/src/cmd/venti/copy.c, > rebuild, and try to copy this score to another (temp