David SIORPAES wrote: > Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> David SIORPAES wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> >>> I tried to run powertop from within an Android shell, but I ended up >>> with the following message: >>> >>> Error opening terminal: unknown. >>> >>> Which is thrown out by the initscr() ncurses initialization call. >>> I have managed to work this around by installing relevant terminfo >>> files in /usr/share/terminfo/ and by setting TERM=linux, but I was >>> wondering whether there could be a cleaner way to fix this. >>> >> realistically powertop is designed to run on linux, in a linux >> environment. >> if you try hard to make your environment not look like linux.. it's >> not going to work well. >> so yes, fixing your environment is the right way to do this. > > > Hi Arjan, > > > thanks for your kind reply. I understand your point. I guess my question > could be reformulated as "Would it be possible to make Powertop run in > other non-Linux environments as well ? ". I think this could be very > useful, especially in the embedded domain. > > For example, I can install Busybox in Android and then utilize a bunch > of very useful tools such as "top", and "vi" without a problem, even if > I am not in a full fledged Linux environment.
I gladly accept patches, but neither Arjan nor me have the time or even the embedded environments in hand that you are referring to. Auke _______________________________________________ Power mailing list [email protected] http://www.bughost.org/mailman/listinfo/power
