Hi Pranav,

On Tue, 2026-11-03 at 14:41 +0530, Pranav P wrote:
> > 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.

Great, thanks a lot! I'm testing this patch [1] by Oracle now.

Adrian

> [1] 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/oracle/solaris-userland/refs/heads/master/components/desktop/firefox/patches/Bug1888396.patch

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