Re: Firmware for Broadcom BCM4318 Wireless LAN Controller

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <9262d4915faf1cfea669d879c3db54a7e251a929.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Hello,

On Thu, 2024-09-26 at 22:47 +0200, Claudia Neumann wrote:
> @John: If I can help looking for the reason why firefox gives a segmentation
> fault, tell me what I should do. Compiling software is not a problem to me.

Firefox crashing on big-endian systems is a known issue, see:

> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1845669

See also this meta-bug for big-endian related bugs:

> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1602836

I actually wonder whether Oracle has any custom patch to fix Firefox
for their big-endian Solaris SPARC port:

> https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/tree/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches

Some needs to take up the work and see if any of these patches help
fixing Firefox on ppc64.

Adrian

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