Hi John,

> The reason for disabling big-endian targets was that Skia is
> supposedly not supported
> on big-endian targets. However, Skia has always had some issues on
> big-endian targets
> but there were always easy to fix.
> 
> Oracle Solaris always ships a recent version of Firefox also for SPARC
> and there are
> definitely patches for fixing Skia on big-endian patches [1].
> 
> Please let's work out fixing Skia and webkit2gtk on big-endian targets
> and not just
> disable such an important package so many architectures for just a bug
> that can
> be fixed.

I am currently working on a patch that fixes Skia on big endian
architectures. I have got it build and have fixed some test-cases and is
currently working on the rest. I'll update you as I go forward.

Thanks,
Pranav

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