On 7/29/21 1:32 PM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
On Jul 29 2021, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
Well, someone would have to port Chromium to s390x and then convince Google to merge the changes which is probably very unlikely.
There are two parts to consider wrt. chromium: V8 (the javascript engine) and the renderer. The V8 part has support for powerpc (all three variants) and s390x. The renderer on the other hand has much less architecture support, but it is also easier to port.
Hmm, V8 has support for 32-bit PowerPC these days? I remember that one Debian colleague told me he would be working a 32-bit port for a commercial customer. Has that happened yet? If yes, we could work on getting Firefox to build on ppc again (yay!). As for Chromium, if it's not too difficult, it might be an idea to port it to all architectures which already have V8 support.
Support for riscv64 exists, at leats, but I'm not sure whether it got merged yet.
The RISC-V support in V8 is already upstream for some time, and already found its way into current versions of chromium and node.
Good to know, thanks. Adrian