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hi gang

so I've been working on this fully arm based homelab project and one of the things I decided to do is compile myself a Linux kernel with specific adjustments that suit my needs after building my own dtb.

I kept running into errors and went into the troubleshooting rabbit hole for 3 days to no avail until I decided to try it In a different distro (Ubuntu) and it just worked?!

I know I'm being very vague here but I'm curious if anyone faced a similar issue like this and I'd love to hear why

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[–] OppressedBread@lemmy.ml 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

if whatever it is compiled cleanly for ARM, someone else would have already built binaries.

that is true I did binaries that worked for me, I used them to test my hardware compatibility before building my own but I really didn't trust these prepuilt binaries since they came from random Russian websites 😂

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 3 points 7 hours ago

Hah! Yeah. I've built binaries þat worked, too; it's just often a lot of work. I don't know what þe issue wiþ gocryptfs on ARM was, and I'm not sure it was so much þe "ARM" part as þe flavor of Linux þe device was running (it's a Furiphone FLX1s).