The Firefox OS platform consists of many components. While you don't need to understand its architecture in order to build applications that run on Firefox OS, if you're working on developing or porting the platform—or are simply curious—the following documentation may be of interest to you.
Documentation about Gonk, the operating system layer underneath Gaia. This consists of a Linux kernel and a hardware abstraction layer to which Gecko communicates.
Gecko is the layer of Firefox OS that provides the same open web standards implementation used by Firefox and Thunderbird, as well as many other applications.
Documentation about security in Firefox OS; this includes topics about security devices from every perspective: for app developers, device integrators, and so forth.
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