Re: Bug#1053767: chromium: please to add support for s390x or armel

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hello William!

On Tue, 2023-10-10 at 20:34 +0200, William Desportes wrote:
> Chromium could be built on Debian s390x or armel, but it would probably 
> require some upstream work.
> 
> For now when trying to build on my Linux One s390x VM I got this:
> 
> ERROR at //base/allocator/partition_allocator/partition_alloc.gni:25:3: 
> Assertion failed.
>    assert(false, "Unknown CPU: $current_cpu")
> Unknown CPU: s390x
> 
> Let me know what direction to go if it's worth trying to add support for 
> s390x or not.
> I would definitely like to have armel supported, maybe it's a more 
> suitable target. (https://wiki.debian.org/RaspberryPi)
> 
> Once both architectures are built DEP-8 tests will be able to use 
> chromium-driver on them.

I'm afraid this is far beyond the possibilities that a Debian maintainer
has. Unless Chromium upstream has full support for a given architecture,
it's next to impossible to support the browser or its engine on that
particular platform.

WebKit and KHTML are currently the most portable browsers followed by Firefox
while Chromium really only works on the targets that Google supports.

And unless you have a dedicated maintainer, it's next to impossible to get
Google upstream support a new architecture.

Adrian

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