Re: Very small X for embedded systems

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Jonatan Antoni wrote:
> Hello Group,
> 
> I'm searching for a simple way to get some rough graficfunctions on a small 128x64 pixels display, but I have no
> working results by now.
> I know the GPE-Project via openzaurs.org. I own a Zaurus SL5500G and it is really similar to what we are building,
> except the display is much smaller.
> 
> To give you a rough overview about my target system:
> - Atmel AT9RM9200, ARM9-based system-on-a-chip
> - 16 MB Flashrom, jffs-filesystem
> - 32 MB SDRAM
> - 4x UART, USB-host and -gadget, ethernet, aso.
> - 128x64x1 lc-display, framebuffer-device

Twin (http://keithp.com/~keithp/talks/twin-ols2005/twin-ols2005www/)
might be a better option for such a system.

> - linux-kernel 2.6.15
> - glibc 2.3.4
> 
> By now we use only a linux framebuffer console and ncurses for our user-interfaces, but we want to use some gafics.
> I tried to build a tiny-x/kdrive server for the target and it works, but with all the needed stuff it gets up to 5 mb
> to run e.g. xclock.
> Now I have to shrink it down to about 1mb, but I have no ideas how to do that.  There are functions we do not need,
> like antialiasing or font randering.

Are you using diet-x11 already? That's about 3 times smaller as regular
xlib (150kB vs 500kB). Not the 4mb you hoped for, but it's a start :)

hopes this helps,

Koen
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