On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 22:05, David C. Jedynak wrote: > The app needs to be a small as possible to be able to fit into flash > memory along with everything else. Tight is too loose a term. ;) I > would love to see it shrink down to, say, less than 400K. We aren't > using *any* input drivers or video stuff. Just freetype2 for a single > font, jpeg, png, and gif, in addition to the epson driver. I was > wondering if directfb could be shrunk anymore if the whole input driver > subsystem could be eliminated completely. Also, since that is gone, it > looks like perhaps pthreads could be eliminated. I'd love to see how > lean I can get this thing, realizing that all the inputs to the system > are via an internal API, and not keyboards, mice, nor anything else. > > I could put the epson driver out there, but it is sort of goofy because > of the way it is hanging off our processor via a slow memory interface > requiring 16 bit readbacks and masks to write 8 bits.
sounds a lot like geode (DMA) > It would require > rework and debugging to be used as a normal driver. I'm still banging > on it, and I think eventually, it might be usable for someone as a > starting point, but for now, it would be kind of scary. I'll take a > closer look when the final software using it is released later this > year. > > Thanks for the help with this thing - darn uclibc bug with the > constructors had us spinning since last Friday. > -David > > -----Original Message----- > From: Denis Oliver Kropp [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 7:46 PM > To: David C. Jedynak > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [directfb-users] Re: Problems with static build > > > Quoting David C. Jedynak: > > Ok - that explains the issue with the static build example. > > > > As for the Home Media Player, yes, it runs Linux. Currently, the GUI > is > > running a non-accelerated (software rasterizer) version of GTK + > > DirectFB (a forward looking rapid development build from last year), > but > > is almost completely replaced with a directfb only app using a custom > > accelerated driver for the Epson s1d13506 for an upcoming release, > > Great ;) > > > depending on if we can get it all working and sized small enough. So > > far, the app, with freetype2, png, gif, jpeg, and the epson driver is > > just under 900k using uclibc (stripped). > > How small is the app supposed to be? > > Would you consider releasing the driver as open source?
