On Friday 03 December 2010, Thomas Gstädtner wrote: > On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 13:17, Timo Jyrinki <[email protected]> wrote: > > 2010/12/3 Delian <[email protected]>: > >> 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 [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
