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

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

To add to what seamlik said, this code is all free software, so it can
be ported.  Pushing those patches upstream would be ideal, but we also
recognize that it is difficult to get patches accepted into Android, so
if someone is willing to do the work to port and maintain to a given
architecture, we would welcome that contribution.

.hc

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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>> Neil Williams
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