raspberry-pi Chromium

[Lewis Cowles]

Any chance the raspberry pi is ever going to get updates, and if it does, what is the likelihood of getting that pushed up to overlay-raspberrypi?

I've been building using the FydeOS/FlintOS repo and am currently troubleshooting the r60 branch after a successful r56 branch build and some problems with r67

Anyone interested in helping out, pointing to why raspberrypi form-factor was discontinued please let me know

[Adam Kearn]

[+1]

I'm a big fan of the raspberry pi and would love to see this implemented.

[Mike Frysinger]

the raspberry pi overlay tracked the original raspberry pi which is an armv6.  honestly, at this point, no one tests armv6 in Chrome or Chrome OS and no one seems to really care anymore.  the likelihood of that running a full CrOS build anymore is pretty low.  that said, if someone wanted to contribute patches, we'd probably merge them since we don't have any official builds for the platform.

for the raspberry pi 2 which is an armv7, we prob should just start an entirely new overlay.  but that too would require someone to contribute it as i don't think many devs here have spare time or interest in getting the platform going.

-mike

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[Lewis Cowles]

Hi Mike,

Over the past few days a small group I'm affiliated with has picked up development from the FydeOS and FlintOS chromium for raspberry-pi.

I personally don't plan on building for anything less than a pi3 as I believe even that will struggle. I know there are ARM64 releases of linux for that and the 3b+

The problem I personally would like to solve is build complexity (5 steps and one type-in takes a potential dev-user from git clone to fully built chromium OS).

Some of the problems I'm running up against at the moment are build nuances, where to find facts (everyone in the chromium for rpi believes x11 is dead, it very much seems to be an option to turn off).

Currently 56 is the only build that boots, so it's not new. But I'm sure with more help from internal Chromium teams and expert users of chromium build we could easily get a system up and running, merged as rpi3 or similar.

[Alpha Tang]

Lewis, Adam, et al,

We have put together a working Chromium OS r68 to work with Raspberry Pi 3B, with updated documentation and a pre-built binary.

https://github.com/FydeOS/chromium_os_for_raspberry_pi

If you are still interested in picking up the development for Pi, this may be another source of reference.

Best

Alpha

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