> He is most likely using armv7 and that comes with its own issues, ie > cpu type and floating point (hard/soft, neon and simd). aarch64 much > easier to build on.
I'm using Debian armhf here on various machines (most of them with ARMv7
CPUs but some one of them with an ARMv8 CPU (and kernel)).
I haven't encountered any particular problem (both in terms of using and
installing Debian and in terms of "manually" building software from
source) that seems related to ARMv7 vs ARMv8.
Stefan
