On Tue, Oct 10 2023 at 08:34:51 PM +02:00:00, William Desportes
<william...@wdes.fr> wrote:
Source: chromium
Version: 117.0.5938.149-1
Severity: wishlist
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Usertags: s390x
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Usertags: armel
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Dear Maintainer,
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.
You have several options. If upstream is hostile to adding support for
your architecture (as is the case for ppc64el, which has roughly 50
architecture-specific patches in debian), you're welcome to become a
chromium co-maintainer and maintain a set of patches that enable s390x
or armel or whatever. Once a month or so, you'll probably need to
refresh your patches to ensure they apply/build/function properly. And
if you stop maintaining the patch set, your architecture will be
dropped from the chromium packages.
If upstream is receptive to adding support for your architecture, you
can send patches upstream to get chromium building on it. Once it can
successfully build on your architecture with minimal or no changes, I'd
be happy to enable the architecture. For example i386 is currently
supported because it mostly works, and only requires 1-2 patches to get
it building. If your architecture is already in that state, let me know
and I can give it a try on a porter box and then upload to experimental.
