KDrive compiled larger then expected

[Adam Jackson]

On 4/6/11 1:32 PM, ss griffon wrote:
> I recently compiled Xfbdev (the fbdev version of KDrive) and the final
> binary was 21MB in size.  I was a bit surprised at this size because
> the post linked below describes kdrive as 700K in size.
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2004-May/000799.html

If you built it with debugging symbols enabled, then those will be 
included in the binary on disk, even though they don't get loaded into 
memory at runtime.  strip(1) will fix that.

> 3) I noticed that in the most recent release of the XServer, KDrive
> only contains fake, fbdev and ephyr.  What happened to all of the
> others like i810, nvidia, vesa etc.

We deleted them because they were broken and in every way inferior to 
the corresponding Xorg drivers.

- ajax