I am porting some awkward patches I have against the old olpc initramfs to the new dracut-based, all bling initramfs.
The python part is mostly done, but the fun part is that we're trying to set the clock (both system clock and rtc) based on network messages. The general approach in our initramfs when we need some specific calls to potent magic hidden (as we often do in our voodoo initramfsen) is to unleash The Power of Pyrex. So that's what I plan to do. Does anyone really know Pyrex, and is eager to help? My C is rickety and my Python is Perlish. Save the world from my implementation... help me with a sane version ;-) http://linux.die.net/man/2/settimeofday http://linux.die.net/man/4/rtc [ Yes, there are alternatives... including in hwclock (with some bulky libraries) or busybox (which is bulky when brought in just for this). We could rebuild a minimalistic hwclock from busybox but that is too much goo for the build -- I did it for the old initramfs and it was definitely not pretty nor maintainable. Smallest, most maintainable, most effective, following the current style and approach: Pyrex. ] cheers, m -- martin.langh...@gmail.com mar...@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
