Re: firefox52 core dump on RPI2 NetBSD9.1

[Bodie <bodie%bodie.cz@localhost>]

On 19.11.2020 10:54, Mayuresh wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2020 at 10:14:29AM +0100, Bodie wrote:
> > And did you notice during those years how browsers requirements raised
> > regarding HW and got thin regarding range of supported OSs?
>
> pkgsrc maintains older versions say firefox52 which helps.

They can't maintain something what is over 2 years old when vendor 
support
it only for over 1 year

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-esr-release-cycle

It just happens to be build mostly and runs somewhat so that there is 
some
"modern" GUI web browser available on the platform

> raspbian has a custom build of FF which is lightweight - what exactly 
> they
> do, I do not know, but it works pretty well.

https://archive.raspbian.org/raspbian/pool/main/f/firefox-esr/

they have all those versions because Firefox is providing browser for
Windows, Apple, Linux and nothing else.

Code and performance between BSD are very different plus reading this
https://wiki.netbsd.org/ports/evbarm/raspberry_pi/

it still seems that there is some work ahead for full support (even if 
it
is in "cornerstone" areas)


> > So you have fallback, even more reasons to not report as critical. One
> > package issues is very different from eg. port not booting at all
>
> Fair enough. Whoever has the access, please feel free to revise. My
> perspective is this: It's happening on a formally released image and is
> something that was supposed to have been fixed. Is potentially a wrong
> image lurking around (note wrong armv7.img i.e. _potentially_, and I 
> hope
> it's untrue, hence I adjudged it so.)

I do not know internals, but building those packages takes a lot of time
on these platforms or somewhere in the chain wrong toolchain version was
used so everything is possible.

Or because earm, earmv6hf and evbarm does not have any Firefox at all
then maybe someone just forgot to remove it from infrastructure for
building on earmv7hf ;-)

> Just 1 correction to my mail, though it doesn't matter to the problem
> description. I reported the device as RPI2, but it's RPI3B (I actually
> have 1 each, and am migrating both from raspbian to 9.1 simultaneously, 
> 3B
> as a desktop and 2 for some other use. Hence I might have erred when
> reporting.)

Nice model, however still only 1GB of RAM. Will be interesting for the 
check
of the problem to install current on it and trying to compile Firefox.
Plus you will have Bluetooth supported there :-)