[oe] [meta-browser] firefox not working for me (only)

[Max Krummenacher]

> > * firefox fails with illeagal ARM instruction

That sounds familiar, I thought then that it was specific to our setup
with the binary Tegra X driver and the armv7a without neon setup, that's
why I did not upstream my patches.

> > On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 3:32 PM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> >>> Hmm - I was wondering why nobody took care.
> >>>
> >>> All my plattforms fail:
> >>> * i.MX6 base
> >>> * gumstix
> >>> * raspberry Pi2
> >>>
> >>> I'll put this browser issue on my TODO currently I have no further
> >>> time to take care.
> >>
> >>
> >> BTW, I just tested both chromium and firefox on the i.MX6Q and RPi2
> >> and they worked just fine.  Built from meta-browser:0cc0419a
> >>
> > Thanks for information. Let's focus on firefox's illegal ARM
> > instruction crasher:
> >
> > * Last time I felt the only one facing a specific error it was caused
> > by angstrom enabling thumb(2) for ARM (long story @meta-fsl-arm).
> > Gary: I assume, you don't have thumb enabled - right?
> > * firefox doesn't crash with "--safe-mode"
> 
> I am not using thumb - off the shelf configurations for RaspberryPi2 and
> BoundaryDevices nitrogen6x built with $DISTRO=poky are the ones I've tested.
> 
Actually I use Angstrom with the instruction set defaulting to ARM.

> >
> > Looking into meta-browser I saw that firefox pins ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET
> > = "arm" but firefox-l10n does not. When having some time left over
> > (=never) I will test with thumb disabled for firefox-l10n and
> > chromium.
> >
> > Andreas

Have a look at
http://git.toradex.com/cgit/meta-toradex.git/tree/recipes-mozilla/firefox?h=V2.4-next

alignment.patch,
Prevent-SIGILL-crashes-on-ARMv6-builds-built-with-the-NDK_10.0esr.patch .

If usefull I could send a patch for meta-browser.

Regards,
Max