Hey, as far as I know there's a special modified version of kdrive (called xglamo) to accelerate the glamo-chip within the device. These (hardcoded) changes are based on kdrive and I think that's the reason why kdrive is used instead of xorg.
Please correct me if I'm wrong. Greets mirko Abelenda wrote: > Hi I just recieved an interesting mail in the Xorg MailingList this was > the contents : > >>> Why not just go for the full X11? Memory wise I found no difference >>> in the memory usage between X11 and kdrive on the OMAP. >> I am told that the full Xorg isn't very happy when built against >> uClibc. > > > So here's my question, if the memory footprint of kdrive is the same as > the full xorg, why choose kdrive over the full xorg ? > > There might be interesing features in the full server that aren't there > in kdrive. Plus I've read here that the X driver has got duplicate code > in the X driver from the framebuffer, so there's no really gain in term > of size of the driver either... > > So here's my question if I am totally wrong or asked a totally stupid > question I am sorry, as I don't know all the implications. > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > community@lists.openmoko.org > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community