On Sunday 25 June 2006 06:18, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > Timothy Miller wrote: > > How much benefit do we really get from ToE? I'm sure that offloading > > TCP/IP is much simpler than offloading X11, but if ToE helps a huge > > amount, then offloading X11 will help even more (assuming the > > relatively slow embedded CPU doesn't become a bottleneck). > > I don't see that offloading the X server would be difficult. Isn't it > already designed for the client and the server to run at the opposite > ends of a communication link? And with a _minimum_ of a 33 MHz 32 bit
Absolutely. That's all built-in. > PCI communication link, we are going to have rather rapid communication > between the client and the server. > > The only thing that I would need some more info about is how much of an > OS is needed to support running the X server. With Linux, I am > presuming that you would need the Kernel with not much installed in it. A copy of an embedded linux distribution is a good start. About 4-8MB probably. In fact I know it can be done in 16MB with room to spare (e.g. Zaurus), but that doesn't include fonts etc... You'd want to do something clever there, like local fon'ts from a fontserver on the main CPU. Hamish.
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