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RE: Looking to commission a new Chromium build - tophneal - 01-14-2020
Cross posting here for the sake of gathering potential resources. Yesterday a Gentoo release was posted to the site: https://forum.pine64.org/showthread.php?tid=8765
Hopefully, with Gentoo running, and hopefully later fine-tuned, we may be able it use it as a better base for a new Chromium build, since Chrome OS is based on Gentoo.
RE: Looking to commission a new Chromium build - brent.thierens - 01-14-2020
I have found that it seems that arc has been open sourced: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/master/arc
The question however is, how do we start this development? I think it is helpful if we can for now just compile the code from @ayufan build, and if we know how we can integrate the official Rockchip kernel (which has complete support for all the features) with CrOS 77 and thus also with CrOS79/80. Once we can do that, it might be possible to have a go at this.
RE: Looking to commission a new Chromium build - tophneal - 01-14-2020
(01-14-2020, 08:54 AM)brent.thierens Wrote: I have found that it seems that arc has been open sourced: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromiumos/platform2/+/master/arc
The question however is, how do we start this development? I think it is helpful if we can for now just compile the code from @ayufan build, and if we know how we can integrate the official Rockchip kernel (which has complete support for all the features) with CrOS 77 and thus also with CrOS79/80. Once we can do that, it might be possible to have a go at this.
I wonder if we should use the official Rockchip kernel. I believe the ayufan CrOS already uses a fork of it, and it still lacks some of the kernel flags required to run ARC. I wonder if it might be better to use MrFixit2001's kernel fork instead. It seems to have much more of the necessary stuff for CrOS.
RE: Looking to commission a new Chromium build - aaspectre - 01-14-2020
ill be adding to the pool soon as my paycheck comes around! i suggest another with bounty in the title to call attention
RE: Looking to commission a new Chromium build - tedium - 01-14-2020
I’ll throw in. It’d be nice to have this.
RE: Looking to commission a new Chromium build - tophneal - 01-14-2020
(01-14-2020, 03:23 PM)aaspectre Wrote: ill be adding to the pool soon as my paycheck comes around! i suggest another with bounty in the title to call attention
It's more of a "pledge" it turns out. You won't have it withdrawn immediately. I'm going to move any money i pledge to my PayPal acct to avoid any issues.
Are you suggesting another pool or post?
(01-14-2020, 04:04 PM)tedium Wrote: I’ll throw in. It’d be nice to have this.
Great! The more the merrier, and enticing.
RE: Looking to commission a new Chromium build - rossk - 01-14-2020
I'm sure I'm a little out of my depth, but I'd be interested in trying to get this hooked in to ChromiumOS auto-update mechanisms (to me, one of the most compelling features of the OS) https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/filesystem-autoupdate
RE: Looking to commission a new Chromium build - tophneal - 01-14-2020
(01-14-2020, 04:58 PM)rossk Wrote: I'm sure I'm a little out of my depth, but I'd be interested in trying to get this hooked in to ChromiumOS auto-update mechanisms (to me, one of the most compelling features of the OS) https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/filesystem-autoupdate
I ended up leaving that off, b/c from what I read about porting it to devices, it apparently requires having a dedicated build machine to distribute the updates. I thought it might not have been appealing to ask for future upkeep.
RE: Looking to commission a new Chromium build - brent.thierens - 01-15-2020
If a dedicated machine is the only problem, maybe Pine64 can us help out there
RE: Looking to commission a new Chromium build - tophneal - 01-15-2020
Possibly, but that's something we'd need to talk to the Pine team about. We should also consider that this build server would likely need to be x86_64.