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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?
