Subject: Kdrive and XFree86
To: None <port-hpcmips@netbsd.org>
From: Jeff Bolle <jbolle@bucknell.edu>
List: port-hpcmips
Date: 02/22/2003 13:46:05
I've been reading some about this Kdrive server and it looks
interesting.  How big is our current x server? Basically I am trying to
determine whether it would be worth my time to take a look at trying to
port it.  Thanks.

Jeff




On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 11:41, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 12:28:58AM -0500, Miles Nordin wrote:
> > >>>>> "ms" == Mattias Sandstrom <mattias@beauty.se> writes:
> > 
> >     ms> can i expect to get out of 32 megs? 
> > 
> >     ms> rxvt, dillo and abiword at the same time,
> > 
> > Here's a screenshot of 'top' on my 32MB MC-R700A if it helps you.  As
> 
> <snip>
> 
> >   PID USERNAME PRI NICE   SIZE   RES STATE      TIME   WCPU    CPU COMMAND
> >   351 carton     2    0  3716K 2712K select    28:47  8.35%  8.35% Xhpc
> 
> 
> Matthias, you may find it worthwhile to look into Kdrive/TinyX for your x86
> laptop. This is a stripped-down version of X, which you can compile from the
> regular XFree86 sources. supposedly the binary is <1MB; and while executing
> it's not much larger. haven't gotten around to messing with it myself, so I
> don't really know anything more about it.
> 
> I'm certain it won't work on hpcmips tho. :)
> 
> Carl Soderstrom.

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Jeff Bolle <jbolle@bucknell.edu>