[iPAQ] Re: [Linux] pocketlinux

jg@pa.dec.com (Jim Gettys) writes:

> Given that v.12 makes lots of memory available, it would be very nice
> to have pocketlinux code linked to use the X server.

We should do that. I'm all for distributing both versions. It's open
source, right?

> People would like to be able to run other software in addition to
> yours, not to mention the X implementation smokes the very slow
> implementation I saw running last week directly to the
> framebuffer....

Don't let Peter hear you say that... :-)

The version at the show that was rotated 90 degrees so that it could
work in portrait mode used a pretty crude hack to get it to work in
time for the show.

Peter had previously made the assumption when writing fgl that the
screen orientation would always match the memory orientation (which
doesn't hold true on the iPaq). So he's got a bit of work to do
there.

I didn't see X running in portrait mode yet (not to say it hasn't been
done yet, I don't know).

And Peter's story on the video demo (which ran in landscape) is:

  The video demo was a bit "jerky" because I didn't check the mpeg
  decoder makefile (the decoder uses FGL to directly render into the
  framebuffer, simulating chroma-keying). There was a "-fno-inline" in
  there! Replacing it by "-O2" speeds up the framerate about 30% on
  i386, and the same is probably true for the iPAQ.

Cheers,

 - Jim

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