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

[Andre McCurdy]

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 4:47 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
> On 2016-02-22 13:32, Pascal Bach wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>>
>>> 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)
>>
>>
>> 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.

Yes. Maybe update the cef3 recipe too, since it will have the same issue.

>>>> On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 11:30 AM, Gary Thomas <gary at mlbassoc.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 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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