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.
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. Archetech ________________________________ From: Clfs-support <clfs-support-boun...@lists.clfs.org> on behalf of Andrew Bradford <bra...@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, January 2, 2020 9:01 AM To: CLFS Support <clfs-support@lists.clfs.org> Subject: Re: [Clfs-support] Desire for updated ARM book-contribution Hi Tom, On Sun, Dec 22, 2019 at 2:55 AM Tom Willhite <trw2...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > 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. I don't know that a lot of armv8 work has been done yet for CLFS, but if you'd like to contribute then I think it would be welcomed! I don't personally have much experience with armv8, but if you want any changes pulled into the embedded CLFS book, please feel free to fork the embedded book github repo and send a pull request and I'll have a look at it. The OE/Yocto Project recipes as well as Buildroot scripts should give some good direction on what's needed for a 32/64 bit armv8 toolchain which may be helpful. CLFS development has definitely slowed in recent times, but it still moves forward when people have time and energy. Thanks, Andrew _______________________________________________ Clfs-support mailing list Clfs-support@lists.clfs.org http://lists.clfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-support-clfs.org
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