Building an Arch Linux aarch64 port for Holo Core (Collabora blog)

Collabora has published a blogpost about its work with Valve on Holo Core, which is a port of Arch Linux toaarch64 to be used as the the operating system on Valve's64-bit Arm Steam Frame gaming system. Collabora has released thesources,binarypackages, and a container image for aarch64 devices. The postdescribes some of the challenges in porting Arch Linux to a newarchitecture, and what remains to be done:

Whilst the infrastructure developed to this point is capable ofbuilding from first principles up until a point-in-time snapshot, thenext step is to build this into a system which can track Arch Linux asit is developed. This work will serve as the basis of acontinuously-operating CI system capable of shadowing Arch Linuxitself. We will work with the upstream Arch Linux project to help Archwith their efforts to port the distribution to aarch64 architectureand work towards automated repeatable builds.

The post also includes instructions on how to create and test anaarch64 build container on an x86_64 host, for users who would like tofollow along at home but lack a 64-bit Arm device.