Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks
by izacus on Friday May 20, 2016 @04:31AM
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What "other archs"? Android only supports 3 ARM architectures (all of them will load armeabi binaries), x86 and MIPS (with 0 MIPS devices or phones being on the market).
Chromebooks run only ARM or x86.
Again, this is an issue that's relevant to a tiny minority of the applications since vast majority do not ship native binaries.
Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks
by azakai on Friday May 20, 2016 @11:16AM
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Even if no official Android devices use MIPS today, that could change tomorrow. And there are lots of Android forks, I would be very surprised if none of them use MIPS.
Re:Play Store and Android Apps Coming to Chromebooks
by lallysingh on Thursday May 19, 2016 @11:37PM
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I don't think it's a major blocker, qemu already let's you emulate any arch that you need. Replacing libhoudini with a qemu based version would likely be straightforward.
1. This depends on closed-source code (libhoudini is Intel code, and it's not open, last I heard). I guess it's not the first piece of closed-source code in Chromebooks, but it's a crucial piece.
2. This code is still not portable, it just runs on 2 archs, unless someone writes a libhoudini for all other archs as well.