Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-05 Thread David Arroyo
> (1) Porting the Plan 9 kernel to a microkernel architecture, such as > Mach. This would give Plan 9 instant access to the whole range of > hardware supported by the underlying microkernel. This is kind of the opposite idea, but you could port the NetBSD rump kernel to Plan 9. It can the

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-05 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Mon, Feb 1, 2021, at 7:16 AM, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: > Anthony Sorace writes: > > (6) Incorporating Inferno's Dis virtual machine into the Plan 9 kernel, > so Plan 9 can run Dis binaries natively, without having to run the > Inferno emulator (emu) as a user process.

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-03 Thread Skip Tavakkolian
Here is some earlier work by Tim Newsham using a styx library by Charles/Vita Nuova: https://github.com/9nut/styxbrowser > Android-related: > > (a) An Android "app" that presents an Android phone's telephone and SMS > messaging facilities as a 9P filesystem. This would enable Plan 9 > a

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-03 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Tue, Jan 19, 2021, at 11:08 AM, pouya+lists.9f...@nohup.io wrote: > [eeke...@fastmail.fm] > > I specifically say "more popular" because popularity affects the > number of developers available. > > Off-topic and perhaps unpopular view, but I *like* the fact that Plan > 9 is not (significantly) m

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-03 Thread ori
> > 1. Project ideas. One of the key parts of the application is the > > project ideas page. If you’ve got ideas that seem like they’d be a > > Plan 9-related: > > (1) Porting the Plan 9 kernel to a microkernel architecture, such as > Mach. This would give Plan 9 instant access to the whole

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-03 Thread pouya+lists . 9fans
[eeke...@fastmail.fm] > I specifically say "more popular" because popularity affects the number of developers available. Off-topic and perhaps unpopular view, but I *like* the fact that Plan 9 is not (significantly) more popular. Popularity has ruined many a promising creation. Although please d

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-03 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Tue, Feb 2, 2021, at 8:29 AM, tlaro...@polynum.com wrote: > > > > Plan 9-related: > > > > (1) Porting the Plan 9 kernel to a microkernel architecture, such as > > Mach. This would give Plan 9 instant access to the whole range of > > hardware supported by the underlying microkernel. A

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-03 Thread Ethan Gardener
On Mon, Feb 1, 2021, at 8:46 PM, Steve Simon wrote: > > Inferno-related: These should be posted to inferno-os too, but some are there already. (It's on Google Groups.) Note that they're starting work on a 64-bit DIS; Charles has just announced a fork for working on it.

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-02 Thread tlaronde
Hello, On Mon, Feb 01, 2021 at 07:16:58AM +, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: > Anthony Sorace writes: > > > Hello! After a few years away, we?ll be applying to Google?s Summer of Code > > program again this year. > > ... > > > 1. Project ideas. One of the key parts of the applic

Re: [9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-01 Thread Steve Simon
someone at the land (peter bosch?) dis a haupage video capture card. i am pretty sure i have a copy of the driver and user level app somewhere. this worked on an old pci card i had at one time. -Steve On 1 Feb 2021, at 8:32 pm, cigar562hfsp952f...@icebubble.org wrote: Anthony Sorace write

[9fans] GSoC 2021 project ideas (WAS: Re: Plan 9 Applying to GSoC 2021)

2021-02-01 Thread cigar562hfsp952fans
Anthony Sorace writes: > Hello! After a few years away, we’ll be applying to Google’s Summer of Code > program again this year. ... > 1. Project ideas. One of the key parts of the application is the > project ideas page. If you’ve got ideas that seem like they’d be a Plan 9-related: (1) Port