In message <1267480482.20513.200.ca...@duiker>
John-Mark Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 21:31 +0000, Dave Higton wrote:
> > I don't know if anyone else has tried it, but I have... NetSurf
> > r9799 on a BeagleBoard renders my (text only) web site!
>
> Good. We've been compiling with GCC4 for quite some time, which ensures
> that the code is automatically ARMv7 compatible. It occurs to me that
> noone's actually verified that the one bit of assembler (the Artworks
> binding) in the NetSurf sources is ARMv7 ready. Perhaps someone with an
> interest might take a look.
>
> > It falls over on the BBC News site a fraction of a second after
> > first drawing the window. I've caught a log and I'll attempt a
> > bug report.
>
> Most likely, it's exploding in Tinct, which is not ARMv7 ready.
> Unfortunately, we are not in a position to fix this as we don't have
> access to the sources for that module.
I tried it again tonight, and, lo and behold, no crash on the
BBC News website. Nor El Reg, Slashdot, Maplin, and a few
others.
If it continues to not break, I'll remove my bug report!
Dave
