Mozilla Boot to Gecko

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陳鵬宇 (float)<a13524000@gmail.com>

May 19, 2012/MOSUT

 什麼是 Boot to Gecko(B2G)
● Mozilla's open source mobile operating
system based on Linux and Mozilla's
Gecko technology.

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 概念
● The idea is essentially to have all user-
accessible software running on the
phone be a Web app that uses advanced
HTML5 techniques and device APIs to
access the phone's hardware directly via
JavaScript.

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 系統介紹
● Gaia
● Gecko
● Gonk

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 Gaia
● The user interface of b2g. Everything
drawn to screen after b2g starts up is
some part of Gaia. Gaia implements a
lock screen, home screen, telephone
dialer, text-messaging application,
camera app, ... and many more.

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 Gaia
● Gaia is written entirely in HTML, CSS,
and JavaScript. Its only interface to the
underlying operating system is through
Open Web APIs, which are implemented
by Gecko. Gaia works well when run on
top of b2g; however, since it only uses
standard web APIs, it works on other
OSes and in other web browsers.

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 Gaia

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 可能會有人想問

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 可能會有人想問
為什麼只有一張圖？

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 因為 ... 改版了

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 Gecko
● The "application runtime" of b2g. At a
high level, Gecko implements the open
standards for HTML, CSS, and JS and
makes those interfaces run well on all
the OSes that Gecko supports.

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 Gonk
● The lower-level "operating system" of
b2g. Gonk consists of a linux kernel and
userspace hardware abstraction layer
(HAL).

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 …......

Gaia Web app

Gecko
b2g

Gonk

kernel

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 比較

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 Boot

Boot Loader Kernel init

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Userspace process architecture

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Gecko: Processing input events
● input-device drivers
● Gonk app shell
● EventHub
● DOM

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 Gecko: Graphics
● At the very lowest level, Gecko uses
OpenGL ES 2.0 to draw to a glcontext
that wraps the hardware framebuffers.
● Gecko draws directly to VRAM.

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 Web app
● Web apps are apps built using standard
Web technologies.
● manifest.json

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 manifest.json

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Apps/Manifest
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 Intsall app
● navigator.mozApps.install(manifestURL)

or

● Put app in gaia/apps/

● make install-gaia

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 Marketplace

https://marketplace.mozilla.org/

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 Demo

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 Run B2G

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 Firefox Nightly + gaia

http://alivedise.github.com/blog/2012/05/05/gaia/

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 Emulator
● QEMU Emulator

http://www.figuiere.net/hub/blog/?2012/03/13/818-building-b2g-on-fedora-field-notes

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 Device
● Samsung Galaxy S2
● Samsung Nexus S

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 Reference
● https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Mozilla/Boot_to_Gecko
● https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Architecture
● http://pydoing.blogspot.com/2010/12/javascript-example.html
● http://mozlinks-zh.blogspot.com/2012/05/gaia-mozilla-b2g.html
● http://www.slideshare.net/robhawkes/mdn-hackday-london-boot-
to-gecko-the-future-of-mobile

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 Thank you
Question?

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