No plans for fennec on the FR
Seems there's no hope of seeing a native FR version of fennec right now. [0] Well, we already have nice browsers so, it's not a real big problem (IMHO). :P [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450929#c4 -- Marco aka Delian # On IRC freenode my nickname is: /marco -- I would love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code -- ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: No plans for fennec on the FR
2010/12/3 Delian deli...@gmail.com: Seems there's no hope of seeing a native FR version of fennec right now. [0] Well, we already have nice browsers so, it's not a real big problem (IMHO). :P [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450929#c4 Well, Mozilla is not very famous of having much interest themselves in building end-user binaries for Linux platforms. Distributions do that for them, and similarly if Fennec will get mature at some point to the point it's feasible to package it into distributions, we'll get them through distributions that support FreeRunner's ARMv4, like Debian. -Timo ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: No plans for fennec on the FR
On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 13:17, Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/3 Delian deli...@gmail.com: Seems there's no hope of seeing a native FR version of fennec right now. [0] Well, we already have nice browsers so, it's not a real big problem (IMHO). :P [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450929#c4 Well, Mozilla is not very famous of having much interest themselves in building end-user binaries for Linux platforms. Distributions do that for them, and similarly if Fennec will get mature at some point to the point it's feasible to package it into distributions, we'll get them through distributions that support FreeRunner's ARMv4, like Debian. Please read the comments in the bug report. The issue is not the lack of builds for armv4, the issue is that the code seems to have armv4 incompatible assembly code, so you can't just build it for armv4. Anyway, I don't think mozilla would object to a 3rd party patch that implements said code (if it indeed exists, haven't looked into it yet) in a reasonable way for armv4 aditionally. Otherwise distributions could patch their sources to provide a package if someone comes up with that patch. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: No plans for fennec on the FR
On Friday 03 December 2010, Thomas Gstädtner wrote: On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 13:17, Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com wrote: 2010/12/3 Delian deli...@gmail.com: Seems there's no hope of seeing a native FR version of fennec right now. [0] Well, we already have nice browsers so, it's not a real big problem (IMHO). :P [0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=450929#c4 Well, Mozilla is not very famous of having much interest themselves in building end-user binaries for Linux platforms. Distributions do that for them, and similarly if Fennec will get mature at some point to the point it's feasible to package it into distributions, we'll get them through distributions that support FreeRunner's ARMv4, like Debian. Please read the comments in the bug report. The issue is not the lack of builds for armv4, the issue is that the code seems to have armv4 incompatible assembly code, so you can't just build it for armv4. Anyway, I don't think mozilla would object to a 3rd party patch that implements said code (if it indeed exists, haven't looked into it yet) in a reasonable way for armv4 aditionally. Otherwise distributions could patch their sources to provide a package if someone comes up with that patch. I doubt they'd accept a patch. Support for old ARM architectures was actively dropped because it was causing a lot of problems while giving support for only a few extra devices, and even then those devices were too slow to get decent performance out of fennec. ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
Re: No plans for fennec on the FR
Thomas Gstädtner tho...@gstaedtner.net writes: Please read the comments in the bug report. The issue is not the lack of builds for armv4, the issue is that the code seems to have armv4 incompatible assembly code, so you can't just build it for armv4. The comment in the bug report does not identify this code. I was unable to find it. Where is it? ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
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Hello, I am looking for Openmoko hardware hackers from Toronto, Canada who have a great handle on VHDL, understand base-bands well and who have contributed specifically to the Openmoko project. If you fit this bill and looking for an interesting paid project to work on, we might have an opportunity for you. __ Shidan Gouran President CEO, Home Jinni Inc. Suite 600, 5775 Yonge Street Toronto, ON M2M 4J1 shi...@homejinni.com Phone: (416) 854-3017x101 __ ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
