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Hi Andrew. Ty for the reply. Glad to see there's one person around at least. I am currently building PiLFS on my Rock64. He has 2 versions; one armv7-32bit one aarch64-64 bit. See how this goes.</div>
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I'm kind of surprised he hasn't mentioned any interest on his website about improving-contributing here, He does give a credit. My guess is he's into raspian pretty heavy. I'm not much of a writer-editor but I can do build book testing and experiemtal
builds like this one. That gives me alot of ideas for book edits-entries. I'll post back after this build fails or succeeds.</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Clfs-support <clfs-support-bounces@lists.clfs.org> on behalf of Andrew Bradford <bradfa@gmail.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, January 2, 2020 9:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> CLFS Support <clfs-support@lists.clfs.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Clfs-support] Desire for updated ARM book-contribution</font>
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On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 2:55 AM Tom Willhite <trw2006@hotmail.com> wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
> 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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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> 2) Nothing else matters until that gets done in my hobby atm.<br>
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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.<br>
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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).<br>
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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.<br>
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I don't know that a lot of armv8 work has been done yet for CLFS, but<br>
if you'd like to contribute then I think it would be welcomed!<br>
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I don't personally have much experience with armv8, but if you want<br>
any changes pulled into the embedded CLFS book, please feel free to<br>
fork the embedded book github repo and send a pull request and I'll<br>
have a look at it. The OE/Yocto Project recipes as well as Buildroot<br>
scripts should give some good direction on what's needed for a 32/64<br>
bit armv8 toolchain which may be helpful.<br>
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CLFS development has definitely slowed in recent times, but it still<br>
moves forward when people have time and energy.<br>
Thanks,<br>
Andrew<br>
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