On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 01:12:45PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote: > Hi, > > It's bugged me for a while that oe-core is shipping both "big" X.org > (in two variations) and "small" kdrive. A quick review shows: > > - oe-core is using X.org for the qemu images on all platforms > - meta-yocto is using big X.org for Atom, "lite" Xorg for beagleboard, > and kdrive for mpc8315e/routerstationpro. > - meta-ti is using xserver-xorg (and not the lite variation for > beagle). It also ships a binary kdrive-based Xsgx, but that doesn't > require kdrive in oe-core. > > I looked at a few other BSPs but the ones I found appeared to leave X > server choice to the user. I also see that meta-oe is shipping > another X.org server.
Is it? where? I've merged it to oe-core about year ago.. Cheers, > Some consolidation is required, obviously. > > Xorg lite is just X.org with --disable-dri --disable-glx > --disable-dga. I need to investigate how much a difference that > actually makes to the server binary and if it can be controlled by > machine features or more granular packaging. > > Here's my plan: > 1) Investigate differences between xorg/xorg-lite/kdrive, producing a > feature matrix and binary size comparison. Then assuming it's fine: > 2) Remove xorg-lite, switch beagleboard in meta-yocto to X.org as per > meta-ti's example > 3) Remove kdrive, switch meta-yocto's remaining machines to X.org > 4) Review differences between oe-core and meta-oe's X.org, merge, > unification at last, street party. > > I'm sure the combined members of oe-core and oe-devel have something > to say about this. Comments welcome! > > I'd obviously need to test X.org on the MPC8315e and RouterStation > Pro, so if anyone has one of these set up then offering to test would > be much appreciated. > > Cheers, > Ross > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-devel -- Martin 'JaMa' Jansa jabber: [email protected]
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