Re: Firefox crashes all the time on the RaspBerry Pi Zero 2W

On Apr 13, 2025, at 12:37, Mario Marietto <[email protected]> wrote:

> I don't know if it is relevant or not,but this is the image file that I've installed on the sd card of my raspberry pi zero 2W
> 
> FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img

It brings up a very good point, in part based on your earlier:

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Mario Marietto <[email protected]> escreveu (sábado, 29/03/2025 à(s) 22:32):
Hello to everyone.

I've installed FreeBSD 14.2 on my Raspberry Pi Zero 2W. 
The problem that I'm having is that Firefox crashes all the time. . . .
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14.2-RELEASE does not officially support any RPi* but what is listed
in:

https://cgit.freebsd.org/src/tree/release/arm64/RPI.conf?h=releng/14.2

as having support files that it supplies for the release media,
such as the *.dtb files copied from the RPi* firmware. What is
listed for the DTBs is:

DTB="bcm2710-rpi-2-b.dtb bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb bcm2710-rpi-3-b-plus.dtb bcm2710-rpi-cm3.dtb bcm2711-rpi-4-b.dtb"

The file bcm2710-rpi-zero-2-w.dtb is not listed.

There is also no FreeBSD port for a U-boot that is explicitly
for the RPi Zero 2 W:

# ls -dC1 /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi*
/usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi
/usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi-0-w
/usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi-arm64
/usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi2
/usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi3
/usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi3-32
/usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi4

I've no clue if /usr/ports/sysutils/u-boot-rpi-arm64 would
support the RPi0-2-W or not. sysutils/u-boot-rpi-arm64 was
used to supply U-Boot for arm64 for 14.2-RELEASE.

It seems you likely have a non-standard/adjusted
configuration in order to use the RPi0-2-W with the
correct RPi* firmware-related files (and possibly
more).

Separately, you do not mention any configuration of swap
space. With so little RAM you may well need RAM+SWAP.

I've no clue what the minimum RAM might be for firefox use
in your context. For all I know, 512 MiBytes might be too
little. How little may well depend on which graphics
environment you are using, as it all competes for RAM+SWAP .

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Mark Millard
marklmi at yahoo.com