[yocto] [oe] [OE-core] Webkit-gtk will be updated to latest upstream; midori browser to be replaced with Epiphany

Alexander Kanavin alexander.kanavin at linux.intel.com
Tue Jun 16 06:40:37 PDT 2015


On 06/16/2015 04:37 PM, Alexander Kanavin wrote:
> Latest epiphany will be provided as a replacement for midori. It
> works fine here in the core-image-sato under qemu. I can't promise it
> will work on ARM, but any ARM-specific issues are almost certainly
> in webkit's (or other web engine's) javascript JIT code and have
> nothing to do with the browser.

Oh, and with webkit it's trivial to disable JIT at compile time; in fact
I have to do it for ARMv5 and ARMv6 because it has bitrotten for those
architectures due to lack of upstream testing.

Alex




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