Bug#763695: console-setup: even worse than assumed

[Samuel Thibault <sthibault@debian.org>]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -2 kbd
Control: retitle -2 Uses 14000 ioctls to load a complete map, needs a better kernel interface

Samuel Thibault, le Tue 25 Aug 2015 20:53:36 +0200, a écrit :
> Eduard Bloch, le Tue 25 Aug 2015 20:24:22 +0200, a écrit :
> > And about 70% is spent by loadkeys executing the mentioned storm of ioctls.
> 
> We could try to optimize that now by not loading the whole table,

I forgot to add that we could implement in Linux a KDSKBENTS which sets
an array of entries, instead of just one, and then make loadkeys use it.
It's a bug in the kbd package then.

Samuel