Hi Gunnar,

on a RPi4B with 8G RAM and two Full HD displays connected I am running bookworm. After upgrading firefox (102.15.1esr-1~deb12u1 to 115.3.0esr-1~deb12u1) recently, it failed to start and threw multiply:

```
DRM_IOCTL_MODE_CREATE_DUMB failed: Cannot allocate memory
Failed to create scanout resource
```

After setting CMA=128M in /etc/default/raspi-firmware, update-initramfs and reboot firefox started properly and is usable.

```
# grep -i cma /proc/meminfo
CmaTotal:         131072 kB
CmaFree:           48612 kB
```

And if I run mpv (with CMA=128M) in addition to firefox, I occasionally also get the above error.

I suggest removing the notice in /etc/default/raspi-firmware concerning RPi4, or referring to this bug, and maybe updating other docs and the image when you find time, because I guess firefox is a frequently used application on this device and if it fails, it would push off users.

Cheers,
ibu

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