AM625: Mozilla Firefox as a Wayland's browser

Hello,

In general, please share how are you building the firefox project? We have Chrome running on AM625 and we used the following repo: https://github.com/OSSystems/meta-browser/tree/master/meta-chromium. The repo also has firefox recipes and I have not tried it but I don't see any issues in enabling it.There are some HW acceleration issues that we are working through but it should not prevent you from running a browser. 

Regards,
Krunal

Hi Krunal,

I mostly utilize techniques obtained from "Linux From Scratch" project. It is fully manual compiling and installation on native machine (AM625, 2 GB RAM with swap), sometimes in restricted or chroot environment. Since my personal experience was bad with Yocto Project (huge RAM requirements, huge internet traffic >100GB), I decided to solve all problems manually, mostly in offline way.

Regards,

Alexey

And one more thing: I need development environment with full documentation on installed programs, sometimes with debug symbols and headers, working international 'bash' support, so Yocto is not good choice for me. Yocto is good to produce final production image as I understand.

Regards,

Alexey

Hi Alexey,

At the moment, we only support building filesystems through Yocto distribution. In general, do you prefer other distribution like debian? 

Regards,
Krunal

Hi Krunal,

I'd rather prefer LFS manual building through command line interface, as it gets slow but best experience for development environment. I resolved mostly all my needs for audio/video, wireless network, UI, AI, 3D capabilities (including full support for advanced scientific research without conda environment). There are some server side capabilities that still need to resolve (mail server, php-http server, sql server,  etc). For a full potential I have powerful Windows PC, - no need for additional production like UI. I concentrate my experience on low-power, simple, smart dev solutions for specific tasks not achievable on ordinary PC.

I have minimal trace and debug capabilities, power monitoring tools for 6 voltage rails. Debian system does not provide such flexibility. Not to mention immunity for long delay or off-link communication, installation etc.

My original projects was even for MCU devices, with very limited amount of RAM, flash and processor capabilities. The ability to program CPU optimized code, taking in account every cycle of CPU and limited amount of RAM was helpful, power consumption was exceptionally low, but it was time that 48 MHz was not enough for high quality real-time practical application.

Regards,

Alexey

Thanks, Krunal.

By the way, it will be good if your company makes available for sale M.2 wireless cards on chips CC3301 and CC1352 and provide network Linux drivers for LoRa as well.