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

 ->14.2-RELEASE does not officially support any RPi* but what is listed...

Why isn't there a specific version of FreeBSD for the raspberry pi zero 2W
? I see that there is another image that I can install,this one :
FreeBSD-14.2-STABLE-arm64-aarch64-RPI-20250320-84ca9ab010dc-270791.img. Is
there any chance that it works better than this one ? --->
FreeBSD-14.2-RELEASE-arm64-aarch64-RPI.img
?

->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 .

I can setup the swap space following this tutorial :

https://docs.vultr.com/how-to-add-swap-memory-on-freebsd-14-0

How many GB of swap do you suggest to add ?

On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 11:30 PM Mark Millard <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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:
>
> QUOTE
> 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. . . .
> END QUOTE
>
> 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 .
>
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
>
>

-- 
Mario.