[ECOS] X-windows on ecos

[ECOS] X-windows on ecos

[Rajeev murthy]

hello,
       is there any X-windows support for ecos as yet?
if not will it be part of it in its future releases?

thanks
rajeev


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Re: [ECOS] X-windows on ecos

[Bart Veer]

>>>>> "Rajeev" == Rajeev murthy <rajeev50@lycos.com> writes:

    Rajeev>        is there any X-windows support for ecos as yet? if
    Rajeev> not will it be part of it in its future releases?

From an earlier response
( http://sources.redhat.com/ml/ecos-discuss/2000-05/msg00146.html )

 > X is not appropriate for most embedded systems, it is just too big.
 > Also, a typical X installation involves at least two processes, the
 > server and the client, which does not map well on to eCos. There
 > are other graphics libraries, e.g. NanoGUI
 > ( http://www.linuxhacker.org/nanogui/ ), which might be more
 > appropriate. An important issue here is the kind of display you are
 > targetting - TV, large LCD, small LCD, ... - since something
 > suitable for a small LCD might look rather poor on a larger
 > display.

 > So far there has not been a contributed port of NanoGUI or anything
 > similar, and none of the customers paying Red Hat for a supported
 > eCos port have specified a GUI library as a requirement.

An updated URL for the above is http://www.microwindows.org/
and there have been recent postings about porting microwindows to
eCos.

Bart