Since most of the hardware-related APIs have only gonk port, what we can do with Mulet on RPi is very limited. We require a out-of-band hardware control.
By the way, if we already have firefox up and running on certain platform, doesn't Mulet just work? On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 9:57 AM, Fred Lin <[email protected]> wrote: > Sorry but I think it worth to pump the question again to get some insight. > > Port Mulet instead of port AOSP to run on Raspberry Pi/Other embeded > linux devices reduce the duplicate efforts. For example, gonk did some > graphic acceleration on FxOS, if we bring that to X11 or wayland, the same > code will directly improve the performance of Firefox on linux. > > > regards > -- > Fred > > On Fri, Dec 25, 2015 at 1:54 PM, Fred Lin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Since most Raspberry Pi runs *nix system (like respbian), and I saw >> there's a youtube video already demo how to install firefox on it >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cODs3ft8Xc >> >> It comes to my mind that is it possible to compile Mulet to run on >> Raspberry Pi and therefore we are able to run gaia upon it and do most >> things the Raspberry Pi is capable of (which comes without telephony, >> geolocation, ...) >> >> If we open Mulet as fullscreen by default when the OS is booted, it just >> works like other Firefox OS devices. >> >> WIth that approach we may save foreseable devices porting efforts, bring >> more focus on our platform, and user still able to run any app (read >> 'Node') they can't just give up on their device(sounds a bit like B2Gdroid). >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> regards >> -- >> Fred >> >> >> On Wed, Dec 9, 2015 at 12:55 PM, Sam Foster <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I cant wait for a working Raspberry Pi port - is >>> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225139 the best bug to >>> track that? It seems like it unlocks a lot of potential in this new context >>> of prototyping around connected devices. RPi brings an existing community >>> and tools, and would be a great base to build on with parts and expansion >>> modules readily available for doing lots of fun and useful stuff. The RPi >>> foundation seems well aligned on mission as well. >>> One thing we'll run into almost immediately is that Gaia is >>> predominately touch-centric - touch exclusive even. More reasons to merge >>> the tv system app. >>> >>> > > _______________________________________________ > dev-fxos mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-fxos > >
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