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

--> I haven't checked recently, but one of the issues I've seen preventing
a fully-functioning Zero 2 W on FreeBSD is the lack of the wireless
driver...

Sorry I don't have the proper knowledge for porting a wireless driver to
FreeBSD. Actually I'm using an adapter,from USB to ETH....


On Mon, Apr 14, 2025 at 12:41 AM Mario Marietto <[email protected]>
wrote:

> ->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 .
>
> by default,the FreeBSD image that I've installed on the sd card has the
> SWAP memory already configured like this :
>
> # swapinfo
>
> Device                    1K-blocks     Used    Avail    Capacity
>
> /dev/label/growfs_swap    872444        13024   859420   1%
>
> but I suspect that these values are wrong. Can someone help me to fix them
> ? thanks...
>
> Mario.
>
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2025 at 11:47 PM Mario Marietto <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> ->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.
>>
>
>
> --
> Mario.
>


-- 
Mario.