On Monday 17 Nov 2008 11:24:55 am John Lee wrote: > On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:05:16AM +1100, Carsten Haitzler wrote: > > x's internals are definitely up for improvement - callium3d is there to > > try and fix this by providing a better more organised and better > > accelerated driver layer - but again - they aren't going to replace x... > > just clean up internals. what it means is - the rest of us can continue > > happily writing x apps and just "wait" for an improvement to pop out the > > pipeline. indeed x's internal acceleration layer could be improved. it > > has in the past (especially with xaa) proved an impediment if you have to > > code AT the driver layer. as such - x was originally designs (as a system > > - not specifically the xorg tree etc.) to allow full freedom to implement > > the internals of x any way you like - so as such if you wanted to spend > > the effort x could accelerate just about everything as long as hardware > > can do it, somehow - but the points at which that acceleration knowledge > > need to go into might be much higher up than xaa/exa. you'd have to write > > a "forked" x with all sorts of hooks higher up. - but it's possible... > > and then x client work as they always did - and get more use of the > > hardware :) > > MicroXwin ? > > http://www.microxwin.com/ > > "MicroXwin is binary compatible to the Xlib API. However it is niether > client server nor network oriented. Graphics operations are > implemented in the linux kernel via a kernel module. An open source > Xlib library sends graphics commands to the kernel. There is no > network overhead and no context switch from X client to X server. This > makes our solution smaller and faster than traditional X Windows."
Looks good and is a direct binary compatible replacement. Perhaps the proprietary licence for the kernel module is what is keeping it from being used? -- Cheers! Kishore _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
