[oe] [meta-browser] ARM support in Chromium

[Gary Thomas]

On 2016-02-22 13:32, Pascal Bach wrote:
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> Am 22.02.2016 um 11:44 schrieb Gary Thomas:
>> On 2016-02-22 11:32, Martin Jansa wrote:
>>> Yes it can, because cortex-a7 is armv7a.
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>> My build failed listing the board as not compatible
>>    ERROR: Nothing PROVIDES 'chromium'
>>    ERROR: chromium was skipped: incompatible with machine teton-p0381 (not in COMPATIBLE_MACHINE)
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> I think it might be worth to have a look at your MACHINEOVERRIDES variable.
> bitbake -e should be of assistance here.
>

Good pointer - the ARM architecture is being set to armv7ve, not armv7a

This was changed (by Martin Jansa) in Poky commit c6a19917ec5350cdfc4053d14462609782613bbc

I suppose a patch to the chromium recipe to allow armv7ve is in order.

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>>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
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>>>> A recent change to the chromium recipe restricts it to only
>>>> armv6 and armv7a.  I've built (and successfully run) previous
>>>> versions of chromium on my LS102x board which is cortexa7hf.
>>>> It's not clear to me what arm revision that works out to be
>>>> (where does one look for this info?) but I'd like to see if
>>>> chromium can still be used on my board?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any pointers
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