On Wed, 21 Oct 1998, Alf Katz wrote:
> G'day Guys and Gals,
> As part of a new embedded development project (a scientific
> instrument) we are currently trying to settle on an OS. Linux is being
> considered along with NT, WinCE, QNX and ThreadX. One of the important
> factors in the decision will be size of Flash required (we'll be using Disk
> On Chip).
>
> Does anyone out there have a good feeling (experience based is best)
> on how many megabytes of DOC will be required to run Linux on a PC104 board
> with the following services:
>
> X-windows for VGA LCD (we need a gui front end, though not the actual
> windowing, drop down lists etc).
hmmm. any idea what chipset the LCD is?
If you just want VGA support I'd actually suggest the GGI project
(www.ggi-project.org) which has a small VGA kernel driver... If you have
any questions or anything, email me and I'll forward it onto the list (or
a number of other people can too - check out the WWW page).
mind you, svgalib should do the trick. But you'll need to pick up a
rendering toolkit for fonts (will truetype do? There's a good kit called
"Freetype" for this :)
There's a few free windowing toolkits floating around too - anyone?
> Unicode support
> touch screen drivers (we can work this out separately).
Unicode support? What level? Linux handles filesystem-based Unicode just
fine (defaults to UTF8). The display on the other hand.... fonts can get
quite large - especially if you're dealing with Asian languages.
G'day, eh? :)
- Teunis
