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(In reply to Robert Mader [:rmader] from comment #27)
> 
> This specific issue should only concern Asahi, right. However:
> 1. Asahi / M\*s seem to be gaining popularity among technical advanced Linux users pretty fast - i.e. those users most likely to run nightly, reporting issues etc. That's why I'd be be more optimistic that it would have been spotted earlier. AFAICS the M*s are well on track to becoming the best supported Linux laptops on the market and I'm regularly surprised by how common they already are in the Linux dev bubble.
> 2. There are a bunch of other arm64 devices appearing lately that are attractive for Firefox nightly folks - be it the Thinkpad X13s, the Raspberry Pi 5 ([who's devs actively contribute to FF](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1833354)), new ChromeBooks (with good upstream Linux support). But they are all not covered by the official nightlies.
> 
> IMO Firefox risks losing testers/contributors from a small but, compared to its size, highly valuable group here - maybe the most Firefox-affine group out there. In any case, I just hope that issue will get addressed in a not too distant future :)


Yes, we are already (and have been) working for a while on native ARM64 Linux CI (see one of the bugs linked here under "See also"). Right now, there's an issue with the cloud provider and Ubuntu that's being worked on and should be resolved soon. That will unblock creating the required worker type in Firefox CI which then will allow us to deploy the regular CI chain needed for making this an official build.

(In reply to Robert Mader [:rmader] from comment #27)
> 
> This specific issue should only concern Asahi, right. However:
> 1. Asahi / M\*s seem to be gaining popularity among technical advanced Linux users pretty fast - i.e. those users most likely to run nightly, reporting issues etc. That's why I'd be be more optimistic that it would have been spotted earlier. AFAICS the M*s are well on track to becoming the best supported Linux laptops on the market and I'm regularly surprised by how common they already are in the Linux dev bubble.
> 2. There are a bunch of other arm64 devices appearing lately that are attractive for Firefox nightly folks - be it the Thinkpad X13s, the Raspberry Pi 5 ([who's devs actively contribute to FF](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1833354)), new ChromeBooks (with good upstream Linux support). But they are all not covered by the official nightlies.
> 
> IMO Firefox risks losing testers/contributors from a small but, compared to its size, highly valuable group here - maybe the most Firefox-affine group out there. In any case, I just hope that issue will get addressed in a not too distant future :)


Yes, we are already (and have been for a while) working on native ARM64 Linux CI (see one of the bugs linked here under "See also"). Right now, there's an issue with the cloud provider and Ubuntu that's being worked on and should be resolved soon. That will unblock creating the required worker type in Firefox CI which then will allow us to deploy the regular CI chain needed for making this an official build.