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Re: X-windows on ecos
- To: rajeev50 at lycos dot com
- Subject: Re: [ECOS] X-windows on ecos
- From: Bart Veer <bartv at redhat dot com>
- Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2001 16:54:44 GMT
- Cc: ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com
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- Reply-To: bartv at redhat dot com
>>>>> "Rajeev" == Rajeev murthy <rajeev50@lycos.com> writes:
Rajeev> is there any X-windows support for ecos as yet? if
Rajeev> not will it be part of it in its future releases?
>From an earlier response
(http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss/2000-05/msg00146.html)
> X is not appropriate for most embedded systems, it is just too big.
> Also, a typical X installation involves at least two processes, the
> server and the client, which does not map well on to eCos. There
> are other graphics libraries, e.g. NanoGUI
> (http://www.linuxhacker.org/nanogui/), which might be more
> appropriate. An important issue here is the kind of display you are
> targetting - TV, large LCD, small LCD, ... - since something
> suitable for a small LCD might look rather poor on a larger
> display.
> So far there has not been a contributed port of NanoGUI or anything
> similar, and none of the customers paying Red Hat for a supported
> eCos port have specified a GUI library as a requirement.
An updated URL for the above is http://www.microwindows.org/
and there have been recent postings about porting microwindows to
eCos.
Bart