10 Aug
2012
10 Aug
'12
9:55 a.m.
If you really want to pursue porting the X server to
this chip as a
project, then get an older X11 distribution like X11R5 and use this book:
X Window System Server: X Version 11, Release 5,
by Elias Israel and Erik Fortune
I like Israel and Fortune, but then, I'm a trifle biased. :-) (I was a
prepublication accuracy-check reviewer for a book of theirs, and I
think it was this one. I'm in the wrong city to check right now.)
If you pursue this, I can help you, I have done X
server work in the
past.
Me too. I did the first port of X to NeXT 2bpp hardware; more
recently, I built a dual-depth DDX layer to support the Sun cg14
("dual-depth" = 24bpp and 8bpp on the display at the same time); even
more recently, I managed to bludgeon a peecee X server into working
with a Sun keyboard on a serial port (with external level shifters).
This is not to say I'd be a better person to ask than Richard. There
are many plausible reasons I might not be. Just offering myself as a
possible resource.
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