[Libre-soc-dev] Installing an X terminal on an Android phone

[Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton]

On Sunday, December 3, 2023, Jacob Lifshay via Libre-soc-dev <
libre-soc-dev at lists.libre-soc.org> wrote:

> well with a touch screen. (e.g. you can have the soft keyboard open, but
> then 50% of your screen is gone, this is less of a problem on a terminal
> since you can just set the font size to pretty small)

my friend phil solved this 20 years ago on an openmoko
by writing and installing a *full screen* transparent
keyboard. that was a resistive touchscreen.

he didn't care in the least bit about android "apps" and
their bullshit (driven by google)

> . Also, the remote X11
> protocol doesn't support most of the modern features that apps have come
to
> expect, e.g. Vulkan or fast OpenGL using memory mapping.

horseshit.

whomever told you that is (a) lying through their teeth and
(b) it is completely irrelevant.

direct access to /dev/fb0 is trivial and managed in some
cases triple-buffered such as with the allwinner a10/20
which has a separate CODEC VPU plus picture-in-picture HDL,
and the OLPC XO-1's Geode LX500 processor which handled the
last part of YUV2RGB conversion in hardware but the rest
of CODEC  in pure software allowing it to
do 720p at 25fps *on a 500 mhz processor*.

i ran and watched DVDs on Foxconn Geode LX500 CPUs back in
2006, using only 0.5 watts, on 1280x800 monitors and it worked
perfectly well.  yes running XServer.

if you think these quotes slower quotes CPUs are incompetent
and inadequate when running an X-Server you have *seriously*
been lied to.

no the more serious issue with the java-based implementation
of X11 is that it is java-based, and simply does not get
enough (world-wide) usage time to make it a truly stable
piece of software. for exactly the horseshit reasons you
believe, jacob, which come down to google's dominance,
it is "relegated" to "curiosity for those morons
still stupid enough to not go with google's way of doing
everything".

l.


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