> > What target hardware do you have? Is it something fairly standard? > > For example, getting it to work on top of an OMAP device like a > > beagleboard is an easy "Just Works out of the box" type of thing. > > > > My hardware is ARM9 400MHz CPU with 32MB ram. However, > only about 12MB > are free for used. I have tried to run a mini gtk program on Directfb. > It takes up about 18MB already........ And what I observe on PC, X > program is huge. I admit that X itself is small (KDrive claim > it can run > on 4MB). However, X has bad behavior that its memory usage will be > easily jump to several times larger even it runs a very small > program....
I'd still suggest that you try it on your hardware. It is probably as easy (maybe even easier) to set up than the DirectFB stuff, and should Just Work. Remember that a lot of the "bad behaviour" that you ascribe to X is often not X per se but the application's use of X. Also, remember that the allocation of memory, on systems with lots of it, is such that both X and the underlying OS favour utilising lots of memory to cache things for performance reasons. In a memory constrained system, you will of course not do that, so the memory footprint that you see on your desktop machine is not a meaningful representation of what KDrive would do on your target hardware. The only way to know for sure is to try. > Maybe I should try out DirectFB+FLTK first and see if > it is usable in my constraint first. I see Nikita has already posted a response about DirectFB, who I think is the best person to help you with that. If it were me, I'd also (first) give Kdrive a test to see how well that worked, since that would allow you to use a "stock", supported, fltk build. If you go the DirectFB route, you will be treading exciting new ground....! SELEX Galileo Ltd Registered Office: Sigma House, Christopher Martin Road, Basildon, Essex SS14 3EL A company registered in England & Wales. Company no. 02426132 ******************************************************************** This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient please delete it from your system and notify the sender. You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose or distribute its contents to any other person. ******************************************************************** _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
