diff --git a/layers/meta-opentrons/recipes-graphics/wayland/files/imx-nxp-bsp/increase-cma.conf b/layers/meta-opentrons/recipes-graphics/wayland/files/imx-nxp-bsp/increase-cma.conf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..eb860536
--- /dev/null
+++ b/layers/meta-opentrons/recipes-graphics/wayland/files/imx-nxp-bsp/increase-cma.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# increase the amount of contiguous memory area for buffer allocations
+[Service]
+ExecStartPre=/bin/echo '671088640' > /sys/module/galcore/parameters/contiguousSize
diff --git a/layers/meta-opentrons/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bbappend b/layers/meta-opentrons/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bbappend
index 234aeb9c..b92a0ce4 100644
--- a/layers/meta-opentrons/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bbappend
+++ b/layers/meta-opentrons/recipes-graphics/wayland/weston-init.bbappend
@@ -1,8 +1,12 @@
 FILESEXTRAPATHS:prepend := "${THISDIR}/files:"
-SRC_URI += " file://manage-users.conf"
+SRC_URI += " file://manage-users.conf file://increase-cma.conf"
 
 do_install:append() {
     install -D -p -m0644 ${WORKDIR}/manage-users.conf ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}/weston.service.d/manage-users.conf
+    install -D -p -m0644 ${WORKDIR}/increase-cma.conf ${D}${systemd_system_unitdir}/weston.service.d/increase-cma.conf
 }
 
-FILES:${PN} += " ${systemd_system_unitdir}/weston.service.d ${systemd_system_unitdir}/weston.service.d/manage-users.conf"
+FILES:${PN} += " \
+    ${systemd_system_unitdir}/weston.service.d ${systemd_system_unitdir}/weston.service.d/manage-users.conf \
+    ${systemd_system_unitdir}/weston.service.d ${systemd_system_unitdir}/weston.service.d/increase-cma.conf \
+"
diff --git a/layers/meta-opentrons/recipes-robot/opentrons-robot-app/files/opentrons-robot-app.service.in b/layers/meta-opentrons/recipes-robot/opentrons-robot-app/files/opentrons-robot-app.service.in
index 3efd57ae..4f7e70a4 100644
--- a/layers/meta-opentrons/recipes-robot/opentrons-robot-app/files/opentrons-robot-app.service.in
+++ b/layers/meta-opentrons/recipes-robot/opentrons-robot-app/files/opentrons-robot-app.service.in
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ ExecStopPost=/bin/systemctl start opentrons-loading.service
 TimeoutStartSec=30
 ExitType=cgroup
 NotifyAccess=all
+Restart=on-failure
 
 [Install]
 WantedBy=multi-user.target