From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Korsgaard Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 23:59:20 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Packet menu: X.org X Window System In-Reply-To: <20121226094719.64380938@skate> (Thomas Petazzoni's message of "Wed, 26 Dec 2012 09:47:19 +0100") References: <20121226022529.GA5440@zuhnb712.ap.bm.net> <20121226094719.64380938@skate> Message-ID: <87ip7o5sjb.fsf@dell.be.48ers.dk> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net >>>>> "Thomas" == Thomas Petazzoni writes: Hi, Thomas> In fact, the X.org server can be compiled in two different flavors: Thomas> * The modular X.org flavor, which is the one used on virtually all Thomas> Linux distributions. In this flavor, the device drivers (video, Thomas> input, etc.) are compiled separately from the X.org server and can Thomas> be dynamically loaded. Thomas> * The TinyX variant, in which drivers are directly bundled into the X Thomas> server. Those drivers are more limited (in number), and are directly Thomas> part of the X.org server code base (as opposed to the modular X.org, Thomas> where each driver is a separate project, separate tarball. Also notice that Tinyx/kdrive is deprecated, and there's been talks about completely removing it several times, most recently afaik was: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2012-March/030059.html Thomas> It would probably be more clear to have the Server Type Thomas> selection as a sub-option of the X.org server selection. Agreed. -- Bye, Peter Korsgaard