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DirectFB was great for small embedded systems projects where you didn't want the full weight of X. Unfortuntaely I don't think there's any alternative to X any
by ashleyn 9y ago
DirectFB was great for small embedded systems projects where you didn't want the full weight of X. Unfortuntaely I don't think there's any alternative to X any longer for these kinds of projects, probably because the cost of a SoC capable of running X has fallen to the point where it doesn't make sense to economise anymore.
- craftyguy 9y agoThis was primarily the reason why I chose to write the disk decryption keyboard/unlocker for postmarketOS to use directFB (by way of SDL2). Putting X into an initramfs is absurd. It's very unfortunate that DirectFB seems to be abandoned now.