[Clfs-support] Desire for updated ARM book-contribution

[Tom Willhite]

Hi all.   I'm a long time (5 years)  builder-tester of LFS/BLFS books on x86_64.   I currently build full KDE Plasma and Gnome BLFS DE's for daily personal use.    That being old hat I'm now focusing that experience on aarch64 platform.
I'm the new owner of a Pine Rock64 1GB armv8 board $20.00 kit off ebay.   So far I've installed and prefer Arch based arm images from Arch Arm and Manjaro.   My immediate goal has been accomplished of getting a full KDE Plasma Wayland running Wayland EGL instead of Xorg using the latest mainline kernel 5.4.x and Lima drivers for the rock64 mali-450 gpu.  It runs/looks ok but its early in the way of driver functionality so it crashes quite easily.

Now that background is given I'm ready and eager to get and give anything I can for inclusion into a CLFS ARM book that's specific to armv8 aarch64.   I only have time atm for that platform but i'm sure whatever I can get done on this board is transferable to others like armv7 and older book steps wise.

1)    I first need an up to date BLFS based x86 cross compiler toolchain so I can build my packages for a complete bootable LFS build like I get on x86 now.

2)    Nothing else matters until that gets done in my hobby atm.

As you would expect I get errors using a combo of the lfs systemd v9 embedded and pure 64 systemd v3.0 books in glibc so i'm halted there.  Done a ton of googling on this.  There's demand but few up to date guides on building a baremetal x86-64 to armv8 cross-compiler.  Guys at Arch want it because they the devs use a slow qemu VM to build on or a farm of arm boards.

I know Berzerkula has a tools image for rpi3  but I really want a fresh start of this and dont want to debate/mix rpi and other previous work with this idea.  Just want an updated way to get an LFS build for aarch64 from the cross lfs book(s).

I'm available quite often to help on this time wise.    Suggestions,  comments ideas?    Thanks to Berzerkula and the others for keeping CLFS alive.

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