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firefox: missing RISC-V port

Bug #1945173 reported by Heinrich Schuchardt on 2021-09-27

This bug affects 1 person

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	firefox (Ubuntu)	Triaged	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Currently no major browser is available for the RISC-V architecture on Ubuntu.

In https://github.com/makotokato/gecko-dev/tree/riscv64 26 patches are available to build Firefox for the RISC-V architecture.

Please, consider if we can create a RISC-V build for Ubuntu.

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote on 2021-09-27:

As explained here: https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/feature-freeze-exception-seeding-the-official-firefox-snap-in-ubuntu-desktop/24210, we're moving to a snap package for firefox.

The good news is, that snap is based on core20, which supports riscv64.

There will probably be build dependencies that need work though, starting with clang, which doesn't appear to be distributed as a binary package for RISC-V (from a cursory glance at https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/releases).

Packaging for the firefox snap is at https://code.launchpad.net/~mozilla-snaps/+git/firefox-snap, contributions welcome!

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status:	New → Triaged
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist

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Heinrich Schuchardt (xypron) wrote on 2021-10-01:

Bugzilla has the tracking bug 1717203 [1]. When [2] and [3] are landed the trunk tree of Firefox (https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/) should build without patches.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1717203
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1731773
[3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1732474