Why kdrive ?

2008-10-15 Thread Abelenda
Hi I just recieved an interesting mail in the Xorg MailingList this was the contents : Why not just go for the full X11? Memory wise I found no difference in the memory usage between X11 and kdrive on the OMAP. I am told that the full Xorg isn't very happy when built against uClibc. So

Re: Why kdrive ?

2008-10-15 Thread Abelenda
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:29:38 +0100 Graeme Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I may have mangled the history a little here, but this is the basics I hope. When we first started on this kdrive/tinyX was the playground for new features within the xorg/xf86 family. xorg didn't support

Re: Why kdrive ?

2008-10-15 Thread Mirko Vogt
Hey, as far as I know there's a special modified version of kdrive (called xglamo) to accelerate the glamo-chip within the device. These (hardcoded) changes are based on kdrive and I think that's the reason why kdrive is used instead of xorg. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Greets mirko

Re: Why kdrive ?

2008-10-15 Thread Graeme Gregory
Ok, I messed this email up :-) On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 11:27 +0100, Graeme Gregory wrote: Hi I just recieved an interesting mail in the Xorg MailingList this was the contents : Why not just go for the full X11? Memory wise I found no difference in the memory usage between X11 and