Hi Adrian,
On 02/25/2014 07:53 AM, Adrian Custer wrote:
> There is lots of community work going on around Firefox OS and that
> could well be brought together into a community umbrella project. This
> is very much needed so as to concentrate our efforts, to provide a
> single reference point for the various efforts, and to address the needs
> of the community which are so low in the Mozilla priorities. There is
> lots of work going on in South America already so bringing that into a
> common project would be doable.
Can you point us to these South American projects?
>> I'm thinking along the lines of the port for RasPi that Oleg Romashin
>> developed - executing Gecko on top of a vanilla Linux kernel with
>> only the essential drivers/libraries loaded.
>>
>> Supposedly this method would let us run FF-OS on an x86 PC like other
>> Linux distros; e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora; just that its UI would be Gecko
>> instead of KDE or Gnome.
>>
>> This way we should also be able to reduce our dependence on Android
>> as the backbone of FireFox OS.
>
> The dependence on 'Android' is more at the level of build infrastructure
> than anything else. There is a 'fake dalvik' needed for some reason I
> have not yet understood. Apart from that 'AOSP' is merely a convenient
> place to get source code and the NDK is simply used as a build
> infrastructure for the project. The code for Gonk is essentially
> linux + rootdisk binaries + firmware + glue
> so that 'Android' should not cause you concern. With a clean, well
> designed build and configuration system, the original source should be
> changeable at will.
I suspect the x86 build from geeksphone to be based on android-x86,
which is likely not what we want to reuse on laptops/desktop. All the
HAL will be different and unsupported on non-mobile hardware. I don't
think this will be a Gonk build at all, but either a "usual" linux build
or once we land Oleg's work a build based on that widget implementation.
Fabrice
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Fabrice Desré
b2g team
Mozilla Corporation
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