Howdy folks. I'm part of a development project which works on a
bootable business card (LNX-BBC, at www.lnx-bbc.org). At present
with some config work (and a scalpel during the install phase of
or builds) we use a tinyX/Kdrive based framebuffer server, and a
seriously trimmed down set of fonts.
(Specifically, we wanted modifiable as well as
free-to-distribute, and needed to trim space a lot)
We're moving our build system towards being a cross-compilation
style build. I say "style" because even though the build hosts
are linux-i386, and the normal build of the disc is for linux-i386,
making it treat the environment as if cross-compiled is resulting
in far better self-consistency. However, it's hell on anything that
thinks it can spot being cross-compiled by deciding that some small
sample binary doesn't work - because it would.
Some of our dev team are also working on other platforms - not very
far along yet - and those will *actually* be cross-compiled.
I would expect that Kdrive should be especially amenable to this sort
of teasing since it would normally be cross-compiled into say,
handhelds. But if I can get something which is nearly as tiny and
still contains the TTF rendering ability while supporting a config
file then we can treat mice much more kindly too.
I realize it's a bit vague as yet, but I'm looking into the following
experiments, so if anyone has already gone into these, feel free to
point me into the applicable archive thread or chime in. (And yes,
I'm on the list; no need to cc me unless you're taking stuff private.)
So I'm wondering if:
1. anyone has been experimenting with X that's almost so tiny as
tinyX, and liked what they got?
2. kdrive is an easier option instead of a patch kit in newer code
than 4.2.1?
3. anyone else has tried this weird thought towards cross compile,
or if anyone with "normal" cross compile experience has a
pointer to avoidable gotchas.
4. anyone knows a truetype/scalable cursor font? (the plan is to
build an X server with *only* the TTF renderer, and tweak the
limited number of X apps in our environment to use fonts we
have present. For "fixed" there's a TTF 6x13 font that uses X's
glyphs and ought to do if scalable fonts do poorly there.)
At present we seem to get a clean build but the install is funny, and
that's not in the part where I'm trimming font files out. A server
imply oesn't end up in the final build tree.
TIA everyone.
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