Of course old binaries exist but why trust an old binary to be exactly what's needed when that negates to a large extent the point of having source code.
While non accelerated devices are getting rarer they still exist and in many cases the kernel fbdev driver provides the lowest common denominator for graphics in the environments. I would rather move forward not backwards and getting XF86 to a usable memory footprint and startup time would certainly be moving forward (unacceptible startup time being any noticable delay between starting /usr/bin/X and completing vt switch). I have a very vague initial proposal for replacing kdrive ddx with a more modular and XF86 compatible replacement and am also researching optimization options for XF86, simplifiying probing and replacing with bus enumeration and maybe flattened device trees which Ubuntu/Linaro have shown interest in. Understand that my goal is not friction in one of the oldest free software projects on the planet but having this body of code be as useful to as many people as possible showing the way to open NIX on very closed devices, like smartphones. I would prefer that people use X, as would Raster, Micky Lauer and others, as opposed to new display servers like those used in Android and webOS. Flexibility in policy decisions would go a long way to that goal. Thanks for your time. - tmzt #htc-linux Sent from my HTC smartphone -----Original Message----- From: Mikhail Gusarov <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2010 11:22 AM To: Abdoulaye Walsimou Gaye <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove xcalibrate and tslib support Twas brillig at 17:06:19 08.07.2010 UTC+02 when [email protected] did gyre and gimble: AWG> Please don't do that. I use Kdrive (Xfbdev) with tslib. Old binaries and source code will not magically disappear :) Given amount of changes in Kdrive last couple of years new versions of X server don't bring anything valuable to Xfbdev. AWG> Xfbdev + tslib is extremely useful for embedded systems without AWG> keyboard, which are driven by a pen. This is the case for many new AWG> smart phones for example. Are there new smartphones which don't feature hardware-accelerated graphics? Xfbdev is quite useless for anything except plain old framebuffer. There was CELF project proposal this year targeting optimization of Xfree86 server to match memory consumption of Kdrive, while keeping KMS, newer Xrandr and other features valuable for embedded development. This project was rejected by the CELF board due to lack of funds. If you are worried about the development of X server and somehow connected to smartphones development industry you might want to propose funding of this proposal instead of reviving Kdrive. -- http://fossarchy.blogspot.com/
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