Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Shane Morris
Oh, I didn't say the Gizmo for a GSoC, it was a passing comment... I'd probably pay someone to do it, and give me the time for it... Now to make money building widgets at uni... On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:28 PM, Steven Stallion wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Shane Morris > wrote: >

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Steven Stallion
On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:24 AM, Shane Morris wrote: > Steve, Krystian in Poland has tackled GPIO on the RaspberryPi. I can fish up > his repos if needed... Very cool! I need to find some time to boot the pi I have at the house. It's been sitting in the box since I picked it up. Steve

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Steven Stallion
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:37 PM, Shane Morris wrote: > http://www.gizmosphere.org/why-gizmo/gizmoboard/ > > I'd like to see Plan 9 fully support this board. The chipset is a closed > ecosystem with embedded microcontroller capabilities, such as GPIO. Anything > you add on the PCI-e would need fur

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Shane Morris
Steve, Krystian in Poland has tackled GPIO on the RaspberryPi. I can fish up his repos if needed... On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 5:22 PM, Steven Stallion wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Salman Javaid > wrote: > > Steven, this USB 3 [0] device driver implementation seems to be an > > inter

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Steven Stallion
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 10:38 PM, Salman Javaid wrote: > Steven, this USB 3 [0] device driver implementation seems to be an > interesting project. Is this something you will be interested in? > > [0] http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/TODO/index.html That's going to be a bit much to chew o

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Salman Javaid
Steven, this USB 3 [0] device driver implementation seems to be an interesting project. Is this something you will be interested in? [0] http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/TODO/index.html Best Regards, Salman Javaid On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 9:33 AM, Steven Stallion wrote: > On Sat, Jan

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Shane Morris
http://www.gizmosphere.org/why-gizmo/gizmoboard/ I'd like to see Plan 9 fully support this board. The chipset is a closed ecosystem with embedded microcontroller capabilities, such as GPIO. Anything you add on the PCI-e would need further drivers, obviously. On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 3:33 PM, Stev

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Steven Stallion
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 8:37 PM, Conor Williams wrote: > ·A device driver for Plan 9 for an unsupported device I'd love to see this - device driver work can be difficult, though rewarding. I would be happy to mentor anyone willing to take up this challenge. Steve

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Shane Morris
Good work! On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 3:15 PM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Sat Jan 25 23:05:56 EST 2014, edgecombe...@gmail.com wrote: > > > It did something, I recall. It was on the list much time after the GSoC > had > > finished, mostly working I believe. Looked good! > > the draw device in js wa

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread erik quanstrom
On Sat Jan 25 23:05:56 EST 2014, edgecombe...@gmail.com wrote: > It did something, I recall. It was on the list much time after the GSoC had > finished, mostly working I believe. Looked good! the draw device in js was completed. the student continues to make good and steady progress and is worki

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Shane Morris
It did something, I recall. It was on the list much time after the GSoC had finished, mostly working I believe. Looked good! On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 3:00 PM, Calvin Morrison wrote: > Did anyone post a recoup of the GSOC 13 results? I'd like to see what > happened, what process was made. Did that

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Calvin Morrison
Did anyone post a recoup of the GSOC 13 results? I'd like to see what happened, what process was made. Did that draw(3) html frontend ever get finished? On 25 January 2014 22:37, Shane Morris wrote: > My vote is on the GUI builder - I'd like to see that one happen. Sorry, I > don't think I'm GSoC

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Shane Morris
My vote is on the GUI builder - I'd like to see that one happen. Sorry, I don't think I'm GSoC material, I just build hardware, and put the minimum level of software on it to work... On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 1:37 PM, Conor Williams wrote: >·A device driver for Plan 9 for an unsupp

[9fans] GreenArrays and Plan 9/ Inferno

2014-01-25 Thread Shane Morris
Hello 9fans, I saw reference to the GreenArrays chips on the list a while back, had a look, and was mighty impressed. Then I wondered, "Exactly what does Plan 9 or Inferno have to do with these chips, and how do they relate?" I considered you could have the 144CPU chip with mini-Styx processing r

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Conor Williams
·A device driver for Plan 9 for an unsupported device ·A GUI builder for the Plan 9 control graphics library ·Porting of the Tcl tool-kit Tk and the Tk GUI builder Xf ·VRML support for the Httpd ·Writing of an editor similar to Vi for Plan 9 ·

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Steven Stallion
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 7:42 PM, Conor Williams wrote: > ok... Feel free to send your ideas to the list in the meantime... Steve

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Conor Williams
ok... On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 12:09 AM, Anthony Sorace wrote: > Yes, I am expecting to put forward an application on our behalf again. > It's not as early as you might think: much of the schedule is shifted > earlier this year. Org applications open in ~3 weeks. > > > i have some suggestions fo

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Anthony Sorace
Yes, I am expecting to put forward an application on our behalf again. It's not as early as you might think: much of the schedule is shifted earlier this year. Org applications open in ~3 weeks. > i have some suggestions for projects... would you like to hear them?... Sure. You are, of course,

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Conor Williams
i have some suggestions for projects... would you like to hear them?... On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 3:42 PM, Steven Stallion wrote: > On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Jessica Yu wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I realize it's probably a bit early to be asking, but I'm curious if > Plan 9 > > will be a

Re: [9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Steven Stallion
On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 4:03 AM, Jessica Yu wrote: > Hello all, > > I realize it's probably a bit early to be asking, but I'm curious if Plan 9 > will be applying to participate in this year's GSoC. I'd definitely be > interested in participating as a student! Welcome Jessica! Do you have a feel

Re: [9fans] networking, qemu, and telnet

2014-01-25 Thread erik quanstrom
On Fri Jan 24 21:22:07 EST 2014, p...@fb.com wrote: > Hi, > > I'm able to ping from plan9 the host (the macos machine running qemu). > After > % ip/ipconfig > % ndb/dns -r > > I have something in /net/ndb > and running ndb/dnsquery > and entering address like www.google.com works. > > ip/ipconfi

[9fans] GSoC '14

2014-01-25 Thread Jessica Yu
Hello all, I realize it's probably a bit early to be asking, but I'm curious if Plan 9 will be applying to participate in this year's GSoC. I'd definitely be interested in participating as a student! Thanks! Jessica.