ARM hardware requirements

[dan.m...@gmail.com]

Hi,

Does anyone know if Fennec would run smoothly on an ARM9 core? This is
what I have to figure out, so here is my question:

- what are the hardware requirements for ARM platforms in terms of
memory consumption, ARM core and CPU frequency?

Thanks,
Dan

[Guillaume Letellier]

I've run xulrunner with a very simple UI on an Xscale PX310 - an ARMv5
similar to the ARM9 but at higher speed (624MHz) - with a small resolution
LCD. And it ran relatively OK as far as I can remember.

The patch Ilpo wrote for ARM should work for ARM9 as long as it runs Linux
kernel version 2.6.13 or later, since it uses a kernel helper. (otherwise
Fennec can also be built without --enable-arm-kuser)

But I guess Fennec would be sluggish on an ARM9 at lower frequency.
I believe everybody uses at least an ARM11 (N800 @ 400MHz) or Cortex-A8
(OMAP3-EVM or beagle board @ 550MHz).

For the memory: my Xscale platform had only 64MB at that time but I think
128MB should be the minimum.

Regards,

Guillaume