On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 22:37 +0000, brian m. carlson wrote: > On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 08:23:15PM +0000, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > > * Package name : python-portio > > Version : 0.4 > > Upstream Author : Fabrizio Pollastri <f.pollas...@inrim.it> > > * URL : http://portio.inrim.it/ > > * License : GPL-3+ > > Programming Lang: Python, C > > Description : low level port I/O for Linux > > > > Wrapper for the port I/O macros like outb, inb and other provided by the C > > library on Linux x86 platforms. > > Honestly, this doesn't sound like something that should be encouraged. > inb and outb are the source of much incompatibility between > architectures, and any package depending on this one will be (likely > permanently) stuck to i386.
They're not really the source of much incompatibility, because people rarely try to use them! I have written a module like this myself for testing some new hardware. On top of the low-level I/O, I defined classes for PCI devices and register sets, and then wrote test cases using them. It was a lot easier to write those test cases in Python than it would have been in C. > Is there something that you want to package that depends on this? I do hope not; this should never be used in production. But it may yet be useful in hardware development. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Logic doesn't apply to the real world. - Marvin Minsky
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