From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <3E5CE502.4050307@devcom.cz> Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 17:02:10 +0100 From: Jan Damborsky MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org Subject: Re: X windows for Linux PPC embedded References: <20030224214813.6D2FAC6E0C@atlas.denx.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Wolfgang Denk wrote: >In message <3E5A528A.4020805@devcom.cz> you wrote: > > >>I would like to ask, if there is some project >>for porting X windows system to Embedded >>PPC Linux. I use board with MPC823E with >>VGA TFT display+touch screen, 32MB RWM, >>4MB FLASH, Ethernet, serial RS232,.... >>I would like to use it as remote graphic terminal >>communicating via Ethernet by means of X protocol. >>Does somebody know how to make it work ? >> >> > >There is nothing much to "port". Just use a system with as much as >possible RAM, and a local harddisk, so you can enable swap space, and >run the standard "make" procedure on the target (native!). > >I once looked into this trying to find out if you could prepare X11R6 >for cross compilation, but found it too difficult / not worth the >effort. I ran a build on a MPC860P with 64 MB RAM and a 20 GB >harddisk attached to the PCMCIA slot. It took _ages_ (> 48 hours, >IIRC) but except for some minor issues the build went through. I >think this was in the age of HHL 1.2 JE, so any decent build >environment should work fine, too. > > >Best regards, > >Wolfgang Denk > > > Thank you for information, HANYS ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/