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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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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.</div>
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2) Nothing else matters until that gets done in my hobby atm.</div>
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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. </div>
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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).</div>
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I'm available quite often to help on this time wise. Suggestions, comments ideas? Thanks to Berzerkula and the others for keeping CLFS alive.</div>
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