On 28 April 2010 09:59, Martin Langhoff <martin.langh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Our chvt() is in pyrex, and all it does is call ioctl() on > /dev/console. If there's a better way to call ioctl() then we can get > rid of pyrex in our initramfs completely.
It's not quite that simple, see e.g. pyfb/pyvt. But yes, I believe that most or all of the stuff could be rewritten using ctypes and fnctl without much effort. The code was written before ctypes existed. > In the meantime, I am following the approach already in use in our > initramfs, and Hal Murray's posted in private a very nice pyrex > wrapper around those two that I plan to test/merge/use today. I don't have any ctypes experience, but from what I read, it looks like it really would be trivial. Hal, would you be interested in trying this alternative approach for the 2 new bits that we need? :) Daniel _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
