Porting X to PowerPC platform

Porting X to PowerPC platform

[Paolo Scaffardi]

I am writing a framebuffer device for my MPC823FADS platform, and i need to
port a simple X-server based on the framebuffer to my PowerPC.

I looked at the XFree86 sources but it's not clear hot to compile them for
PowerPC targets!

Are you already done this?
How can i proceed?

I'm in a hurry... please help me soon!

Bye,
Paolo Scaffardi.

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Re: Porting X to PowerPC platform

[Matthew Locke]

Paolo Scaffardi wrote:
>
> I am writing a framebuffer device for my MPC823FADS platform, and i need to
> port a simple X-server based on the framebuffer to my PowerPC.

nothing in X is ever simple :-)

>
> I looked at the XFree86 sources but it's not clear hot to compile them for
> PowerPC targets!

I guess size is not important for you.  We (Montavista) are supporting
Microwindows, which is a small footprint open-source windowing system
for embedded systems (I must have said this a thousand times at
LinuxWorld).  you can find a srpm and a rpm for 8xx on our ftp site
ftp://ftp.mvista.com.  It is very light weight, but has several widgets
(listbox, buttons, etc).

> Are you already done this?
> How can i proceed?
>
> I'm in a hurry... please help me soon!
>
yeah, if you are in a hurry, I suggest trying microwindows. It has both
a Win323 API and a "X like" API into its graphics engine.  If you are
familiar with either one, you can have a simple app running in no time.

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