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Support for ARM64 on Linux?
Description
I recently bought a PineBook Pro from Pine64 and I obviously want to use Brave just like on my Intel powered Laptop that runs Gentoo Linux.
Though sadly Brave only seems to support ARM-HF powered Android devices. PineBooks run on Linux though, also they use a ARM64 processor.
As PineBooks have a ARM64 (64 bit) processor, I cant really run/use armhf (32 bit) builds as one would on a Raspi.
I tried to run armhf applications before, but after 6 hours of trying without success I gave up.
For what I know, Chromium has ARM64 support. I have Chromium running on here.
As the ARM processor in PineBooks is not ment for heavy load I will not attempt to compile Brave myself on here.
I've got a PR pending at https://github.com/brave/brave-core/pull/6927 if anyone wants to try building. It needs more testing from our side and a few fixes.
Is there a relatively easy way to test the above PR as a part of building brave-browser repo? The documentation states that brave-core is mounted at src/brave, but I'm not sure I know how to shim that into place.
I did attempt to follow the build instructions, but apt couldn't find libgnome-keyring-dev and npm run init errored out when trying to find the module "chalk".
My build environment:
System:
Host: ubuntu Kernel: 5.8.0-1015-raspi aarch64 bits: 64
Desktop: MATE 1.24.1 Distro: Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)
Machine:
Type: ARM Device System: Raspberry Pi 400 Rev 1.0 details: BCM2835
I agree, Brave should port to ARM64 Linux.
I will try and see if I can build/run it on my pi 4 with Manjaro Arm64
The comments on this are ultra confusing and comments and statements appear to contradict each other.
Simple yes/no: Is there a working Aarch64 Brave Browser version?
If not, when can we expect it?
Asking as Aarch64 linux (Manjaro) user.
The comments on this are ultra confusing and comments and statements appear to contradict each other.
Simple yes/no: Is there a working Aarch64 Brave Browser version?
If not, when can we expect it?
Asking as Aarch64 linux (Manjaro) user.
No sadly there isn't a working version for aarch64, there just has been developments on debugging issues to get it working currently.
No sadly there isn't a working version for aarch64
It's a shame that Brave has walked away from the Arm64 Linux community.
@coreybruce what are the issues?
There isn't a working version of Brave for AArch64 or arm7l
@mihaiplesa is there any news regard the ARM64 support implementation? When can we expect to see it working?
Can't wait to use it on my pinebook pro 😎
As a PinePhone and 64-bit booting RPi owner I would love a proper ARM/Aarch64 build of brave too.
Brave really should support this. There's literally dozens of us 😅
@coreybruce what are the issues?
There isn't a working version of Brave for AArch64 or arm7l
But why?
- Toolchain bug?
- nobody built it?
As there is an android arm64 build, I assume the code work on arm64
Also interested in using Brave on an arm64 (Pi Model 4B).
same .. thought i would find some hope here
Another Raspberry Pi 4B user here. Brave support would be awesome. Please make it happen.
Another Raspberry Pi 4B user here (ArchLinux ARM64).
Currently using Chromium that annoys me because I need lots of extensions to achieve brave-browser feature parity. And since all those extensions run in javascript, it really burdens the chromium, making it even slower.
Please, please, please, add official ARM64 support for Linux 🙏. You already have ARM64 support for Android, and Android also uses the Linux kernel. Why is it so difficult to add generic ARM64 Linux support?
