Using Chromium in Embedded Boards (iMX6Q)

[Suwaibith Suhail]

Hi,

I am hoping to get some insight with regard to using chromium in embedded board such as Wandboard that is running on IMX6 Quad processor with 4GB of RAM. The idea is to run a simple standalone web application that will be accessible by only user at a given time using a touch screen (ATM like terminal). I was wondering if anyone here has any prior experience of using chromium in an embedded board for simple use cases and how was their experience using the stack - Issues encountered, reliability and durability.

I found similar posts online unfortunately no one could share some insights or talk about their experience

1. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!mydiscussions/chromium-dev/uvUVGNmRUG8
   
2. https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!mydiscussions/chromium-dev/KYzTOma4pGQ
   

Proposed Architecture for the use case:

        Single User

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:::::: Chromium :::::: 

:::: Tomcat [app] :::: 

::::::::: MySQL :::::::: 

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Thank you in advance for your inputs and thoughts

Thanks & Regards,

Suhail

[Claudio deSouza]

I use the chromium code in a raspberry pi running on ubuntu and it works fine, but we are talking about arm...

[Suwaibith Suhail]

yes, I am guessing you did not run tomcat or mysql in the same system right? Regardless I would like to know your two cents with respect to the endurance of the browser and how long was the up time. Thank you 

[Carlos Rafael Giani]

Baseline chromium should work on the imx. But - you won't get hardware accelerated video decoding. Also, you must make sure that OpenGL ES is used, not regular OpenGL.

For the hardware acceleration you must apply patches. Upstream currently does not have imx support.

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[Suwaibith Suhail]

Thank you Carlos, my current expectations do not require any additional decoding and i do run chromium with the flag --disable-gpu, yes Chromium does work on imx6 and i was able to install it on top of an arch distro along side mysql and tomcat services. The entire stack works fine and since my expectations do not require any multi user sessions or concurrency, the stack is stable for most part. I am of course curious as to the stability of running chromium continuously for a long time with occasional active single user sessions like accessing an ATM terminal. By any chance have you worked or experienced issues with chromium that was running continuously for long periods of time, and do you know of any similar domains that uses similar stack in an embedded board. Thank you for your time.