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

[Otavio Salvador]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Max Krummenacher <max.oss.09 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > * 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.

An upgraded version would be awesome :-)

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