TODO (Plan 9 wiki)

Please list the software you are working (or plan to be working) on in the first sections below. Listing the date and your name or email address for contact would be good too.

The WISH LIST section below is for stuff in your to-do list that you would like others to do.

IN PROGRESS

htmlfmt to understand tables. - I am working on it now. You can find the latest update at /n/sources/contrib/pietro/htmlfmt.tgz -- pietro

IBM Research Hypervisor Support for x86/ppc kernels (11/2004) -- ericvh

Making the fmt library more portable by safer use of varargs and adding %'d and %4$d POSIX extensions for internationalization. -- rob

9P2000.u (9/2004) UNIX extensions to the 9P2000 prototocol -- ericvh & ron minnich

CIFS Server. Early days, but some usable functionality.

TinyGL. A very light implementation of a subset of the OpenGL graphics library. Already ported to several non-X windowing environments -- mirtchov@cpsc, stalled, better shoot for the real thing and port MesaGL. This has also stalled for a year -- the software rendering compiles with ape/pcc, but the driver for draw() is half-done.

LinuxBIOS Mods needed to get Plan9 to load directly from flash (no 9load) via LinuxBIOS. Also see if I can get POST codes into the startup code -- makes debugging new platforms tons easier. No impact once the node is up.

Read-only FFS (both UFS1 and UFS2) -- wkj

Native port of GSL (GNU Scientific Library): numerical integration almost working, random distributions in progress -- -- ++pac 2005Apr29

64-bit MIPS port. Currently targeted towards SGI's R4K+ systems. -- tim at nop dot cx

802.1x supplicant. in progress, /n/sources/contrib/axel/8021x . Only supports ttls-pap. I can now also test peap here; no clue yet whether it is worth to add support for it. -- axel.belinfante@cs.utwente.nl

DFS layer to go on top of aux/cifs - currently a working DFS client has been bodged into cifs, the separate layer will grow from this -- Steve

Centrino wifi driver, mostly written, needs to be finishd, see /n/sources/contrib/rsc/ipw2200

Add client authentication to TLS in libsec -- ckeen

HARDWARE DRIVERS ALLEGEDLY IN PROGRESS

PPC970 Port (in faith, haven't started yet, but going to shortly) -- ericvh

GigE driver for the SysKonnect family of cards (work in progress) -- cnielsen@pobox.com

Broadcom BCM5751M Gigabit ethernet. George Gensure was working on this, see 9fans passim. Overview

Centrino wireless ethernet - see above

STALLED

Port to iMac http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~412/projects/9mac/. Apparently stopped in 2005.

WISH LIST

SSH v2. There are several attempts but they all have problems. One is /n/sources/contrib/rsc/sshv2.tar.gz. In particular, do not use openssl: the code is lousy and enormous, 20MB of source. One of the resulting ssh2 binaries is 6MB. This is not acceptable. libsec has most of the crypto support you need. Try to use factotum and secstore to hold keys, not x.509 nor asn.1 nor object-id goo.

Implement some form of compression in devssl and make drawterm use it.

tiff(1) in a similar vein to jpg(1), png(1) etc. Andrey has already ported libtiff see /n/sources/contrig/andrey/libtiff.tgz which should help.

More ACPI support, see http://www.acpi.info/

x86 emulator to run the VESA BIOS on PCs, basic emulator already exists in /n/sources/contrib/rsc/8i

webdavfs - for MS Exchange

Kerberos 5 client

replica/pull to have a -m (3 way merge) option

GUI image manipulation program - page(1) crossed with sam(1) which calls resample(1) and crop(1) (and other tools) would love to see this implemented in Acme.... -- [++pac

A basic http/ftp proxy - maybe cache/regex advert stripping too.

A new option to the fossil console snap command, allowing an already ingested vac score to be inserted into the /archive tree.

upas/fs modified to leave mail messages on remote media rather than loading them into RAM; see p9p's upas/fs.

cryptfs (see http://www.crypto.com/papers/cfs.pdf).

GEOM-Based Disk Encryption (GBDE); see http://phk.freebsd.dk/pubs/bsdcon-03.gbde.paper.pdf and http://lists.cse.psu.edu/archives/9fans/2005-February/040378.html.

LDAP File System Server

Linux binary emulator linuxemu in theory, linuxemu ld-linux.so.1 bin/a.dynamic is supposed to work, but unfortunately ld-linux.so.1 wants to be loaded where the linuxemu text segment is. you'd need to move the linuxemu text segment somewhere else and then segdetach it before calling elfload. it's entirely doable, especially since x86 code is position independent. ... The libraries have changed since I did the initial work ... looks like there are new system calls to implement! -- Russ Cox

Tk emulator/port.

Input server for Chinese/Japanese/Korean.

Some sort of user space emulator, like qemu, for Plan 9.

A way for acme applications to set the 'scratch' flag (especially for win)

Acme graphics capability & turning Acme to full UI Command window instead of menus, or taglines, everywhere. Maybe a single system cmd win connected to the last touched win -- ++pac

DOS binary emulator, just plain DOS, not Win -- ++pac

tarfs, and scuzz not limited by 2GB, to allow to burn tarDVD's -- ++pac. I think this is done; what's still needed?

HARDWARE DRIVERS WANTED

EHCI high-speed USB

Bluetooth, probably via USB

dual-display VGA support

IRDA comms

AC97 support

Nvidia Forcedeth Gigabit ethernet

DONE PROJECTS

64-bit PowerPC compilers done: forsyth@vitanuova.com; gradually moving into distrib

Currently at sources: /nemo Redirfs: Fail over from one file server to another. Working. Still on testing. -- nemo@plan9.escet.urjc.es.

A read-only version of upas/fs that you can export via 9P2000 to be used for people to browse/search 9fans and plan9dev without having to use Google: Use exportfs -R; the TIP9UG guys plan to set this up on their public servers.

A port of AT&T GraphViz - open source graph drawing software (see http://www.graphviz.org/). Compiled graphviz-1.10 with mk and pcc (dot, neato, twopi). The plan9 source is at http://www2.davidashen.net/graphviz-p9.tbz -- dvd@davidashen.net

64-bit (or 32-bit) version of /sys/src/fs with IDE DMA and RWM, Intel Gbe driver, longer filename components and more http://www.collyer.net/sys/doc/fs64/fs.ps. The distribution is http://www.collyer.net/who/geoff/9/fs64.tgz. -- geoff

Unionfs. To merge several trees without binding each directory. For example, to make a patch for a read only media. (see Divergefs)

Snmpfs v1 and v2. To access snmp tables from devices. The source is in http://www.9grid.es. -- gabidiaz

SPF Sender Policy Framework parser/checker for use in /mail/lib/validatesender. http://www.9grid.es. -- gabidiaz

SATA driver: Intel ICH7-M chipset with an 82801GBM AHCI SATA interface Datasheet Updates

USB disk support, allowing access to IPods and other usb storage devices.

USB keyboard driver. (Some motherboards provide BIOS options to emulate USB keyboards as PS2 keyboards, but this doesn't work for everyone.)

a mechanism to lock-focus in ACME (particularly for locking focus in the menu bars) to help make things more useable in the face of mouse drift: acme -b.

cdfs capable of writing DVDs & Blu-ray discs.

SFTP client that will give file access to a remote ssh server

(The following sections are to be moved to their own page)

PROJECTS

BLUE SKY

Collaborative Environments

TODO