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

[Saul Wold]

On 08/22/2012 08:15 AM, Burton, Ross wrote:
> On 17 August 2012 13:12, Burton, Ross <ross.burton at intel.com> wrote:
>> 1) Investigate differences between xorg/xorg-lite/kdrive, producing a
>> feature matrix and binary size comparison
>
> Some rough numbers: a core-image-sato rootfs for RouterStation Pro
> using kdrive is 25959477 bytes.  Change kdrive to Xorg (Xfbdev and a
> few important modules) and it grows to 26342094 bytes, approximately
> 380kb growth.
>
> It appears that we're also shipping libexa in the core server package,
> when I think that can be split into a separate package as fbdev isn't
> using it.  That will give us another 90kb back.
>
> I'm happy with this size increase as a trade-off for using an X server
> that is actually maintained.
>
+1

> Ross
>
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