On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 04:22:57PM +0530, Kamalneet Singh wrote: > Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 08:40:13AM +0100, John Tapsell wrote: > >> 2008/10/14 Amit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> Only building Xserver will be sufficient or do I have to build the > >>> whole X11 package availbale at > >>> http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/X11R7.2/src/ ? > >> 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. > > > > Right, and future releases of Maemo will be using Xorg instead of > > KDrive, for exactly that reason. > > Thanks for the info. Will be nice if someone can quickly tell any pros > and cons of using kdrive instead of Xorg, for embedded systems where we > know the hardware at build time.
Pros: pretty much none. Cons: it's not Xorg. > Are there any performance differences between Xorg and kdrive? Is EXA > better than KAA? EXA is better than KAA, which is why KAA has been removed. > The development effort of writing a new kdrive server (based on Xfbdev) > vs writing Xorg driver for a new hardware? I guess kdrive is easier and > cleaner, maybe because I'm not at all familiar with Xorg development. There's actually not _too_ much difference, when you take into account all the crap you need to hack to get KDrive to actually do anything useful. Cheers, Daniel
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