In XFree86 3.x there was a LinkKit, that basically consisted of a distribution of object files, that could be linked into a binary by the user and/or system configuration.
Personally, at that time, I used it a lot, as I was running a low end computer, and LinkKit could make running XFree86 on a computer with like 8MB main memory, and a card with 256Kb memory "smoothly". Xorg (and to some extent XFree86) loadable modules aren't really of much use, as modules cannot be properly unloaded, there is no dependency information; a module doesn't list it's dependencies in any form, causing frequently one to need to load a lot more code/data then required. This is just brainstorming, but something I thought some time ago; instead of having a xorg.conf as a configuration file, it, or an alternate name, could be a makefile, and then one could choose what driver and features to link into it. Any comments? Thanks, Paulo _______________________________________________ xorg mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg
