[Android-tools-devel] arm64 & armhf builds?

[殷啟聰]

adb and fastboot are part of the Android SDK which are only officially
supported on x86 platforms. Strictly speaking, Google only supports
its i386 version, because the official SDK are mostly 32-bit
softwares. Although the Android OS runs on x86, ARM and MIPS, the SDK
does not.

We don't want to maintain too many ports of them, there's too much
work. More importantly, even if we can successfully build them on
other platforms, we can't assure that they will work on other
platforms. For example, we used to let android-libunwind build on
other platforms but it FTBFS on MIPS. Another example, 64-bit dexdump
won't work and we can only use its 32-bit version.

You can surely use adb and fastboot on a x86 computer to debug ARM
phones, and I think most people do this?

2016-03-25 4:58 GMT+08:00 Neil Williams <codehelp at debian.org>:
> What is the reason for the removal of the ARM builds of adb and
> fastboot? It seems odd to not support debug tools for ARM devices from
> ARM devices.
>
> i386 is still supported, so it doesn't seem to be a 32bit issue - even
> if it was, there should be no particular reason to drop arm64.
>
> Is there an upstream link or reference for why 6.0.1 cannot support
> non-x86 architectures?
>
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