Chromium on POWER9 ready to land
Chromium is an important dependency for many tools, such as QtWebEngine, so this port definitely improves the T2's viability and compatibility as a workstation. However, I'll say as a personal note, and with full disclosure as a long-time member of the Mozilla community, moves like Chrome 69's forced integration with Google web services (even cookies won't be cleared unless you log out) continue to make me unwilling to support this project myself even though I'm glad it exists. At least there are alternatives like Ungoogled Chromium, at least for right now.
Firefox doesn't have a JIT, but it also doesn't have Google or its general untrustworthiness and it otherwise works fine, and my goal is to get ppc64le supported in SpiderMonkey eventually. Meanwhile, if you really do prefer Chromium, you now have a fully-working port and this hard work should be commended.
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