[OE-core] [oe] RFC: One X Server To Rule Them All

[Martin Jansa]

On Fri, Aug 17, 2012 at 01:12:45PM +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It's bugged me for a while that oe-core is shipping both "big" X.org
> (in two variations) and "small" kdrive.  A quick review shows:
> 
> - oe-core is using X.org for the qemu images on all platforms
> - meta-yocto is using big X.org for Atom, "lite" Xorg for beagleboard,
> and kdrive for mpc8315e/routerstationpro.
> - meta-ti is using xserver-xorg (and not the lite variation for
> beagle).  It also ships a binary kdrive-based Xsgx, but that doesn't
> require kdrive in oe-core.
> 
> I looked at a few other BSPs but the ones I found appeared to leave X
> server choice to the user.  I also see that meta-oe is shipping
> another X.org server.

Is it? where? I've merged it to oe-core about year ago..

Cheers,

> Some consolidation is required, obviously.
> 
> Xorg lite is just X.org with --disable-dri --disable-glx
> --disable-dga.  I need to investigate how much a difference that
> actually makes to the server binary and if it can be controlled by
> machine features or more granular packaging.
> 
> Here's my plan:
> 1) Investigate differences between xorg/xorg-lite/kdrive, producing a
> feature matrix and binary size comparison.  Then assuming it's fine:
> 2) Remove xorg-lite, switch beagleboard in meta-yocto to X.org as per
> meta-ti's example
> 3) Remove kdrive, switch meta-yocto's remaining machines  to X.org
> 4) Review differences between oe-core and meta-oe's X.org, merge,
> unification at last, street party.
> 
> I'm sure the combined members of oe-core and oe-devel have something
> to say about this.  Comments welcome!
> 
> I'd obviously need to test X.org on the MPC8315e and RouterStation
> Pro, so if anyone has one of these set up then offering to test would
> be much appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> Ross
> 
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