[Gta04-owner] Firefox OS (was: Upgrade to GTA04)

[Adrien Dorsaz]

Le lun 24 nov 2014 à 9:58, Sebastian Krzyszkowiak <dos at dosowisko.net> 
a écrit :
> On 11/24/14, Lukas Maerdian <luk at slyon.de> wrote:
>>>>  (5) Did anybody actually try to create a Replicant-based Firefox 
>>>> OS for
>>>>  GTA04 et al.?
>>> 
>>>  I am not aware of, but if someone works on it, please raise your 
>>> hand!
>> 
>>  All I know is this project:
>>  https://redmine.adorsaz.ch/projects/b2g-manifest
>> 
>>  It wasn't officially announced, yet and doesn't seem to be very 
>> active.

Well, I've tried to work on it last summer and I confirm,  as noticed 
by Sebastian, someone without any experience in Android build system 
can't easily build FxOS ;)

That's why I've tried to build Replicant later and why I've never 
spread out this URL : it was just a try to port FxOS from Replicant 4.2 
by reading the FxOS port documentation. This documentation wasn't 
enough for me and I need to take time to understand kernel and Android 
build process.

Although I think the simplest way is to build directly FxOS for GTA04 
without porting from Replicant, so we won't have a conflicts between 
dependencies of Replicant and FxOS and we'll avoid to build not needed 
applications.

> 
> Also, FxOS seems to require some OpenGL - so it'd need closed SGX
> drivers on GTA04. How usable it is without it - I have no idea (my
> FxOS build produced only damaged binaries :P), but given that Firefox
> The Browser doesn't even launch without it I'm not very optimistic.

I had same conclusion indeed. It will be good to ask on Firefox OS dev 
mailing list these two questions :

*) Is OpenGL support needed for FxOS too ?
*) Is porting from Android 4.2 feasible ?

As I've no experience neither in OpenGL nor in Android build process, I 
didn't ask it to them.

Best regards,
Adrien



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