I'm wanting to start low level programming on ARM chips. I've installed qemu and followed a few example programs for hello world type stuff, but now I want to target the latest Raspberry Pi, which has the ARMv8 `cortex-a53` and `neon-fp-armv8` FPU. I'm currently running Debian:

```
$ lsb_release -a
    No LSB modules are available.
    Distributor ID: BunsenLabs
    Description:    BunsenLabs GNU/Linux 8.5 (Hydrogen)
    Release:    8.5
    Codename:   bunsen-hydrogen

$ cat /etc/debian_version
    8.5

```

I've currently installed the following toolchain:

```
binutils-arm-none-eabi
gcc-arm-none-eabi
gdb-arm-none-eabi

```

However, when I try to compile with `-mcpu=cortex-a53`, I receive the following error:

`arm-none-eabi-gcc: error: unrecognized argument in option '-mcpu=cortex-a53'`

```
$ arm-none-eabi-gcc --version
    arm-none-eabi-gcc (4.8.4-1+11-1) 4.8.4 20141219 (release)

```

I assumed I had an older GCC that did not contain that target CPU, so I tried to download the source for binutils, gcc, and gdb but I am unable to build binutils. It always fails when trying to `make all`. 

binutils configuration:

```
$../../src/binutils-2.26.51/configure \
 --target=arm-none-eabi \
 --disable-nls

```

Build error:

```
$make -j4
    checking for bison... /home/nathan/development/tools/arm/src/binutils-2.26.51/missing bison -y
    checking for flex... /home/nathan/development/tools/arm/src/binutils-2.26.51/missing flex
    checking lex output file root... configure: error: cannot find output from /home/nathan/development/tools/arm/src/binutils-2.26.51/missing flex; giving up
    Makefile:3545: recipe for target 'configure-binutils' failed
    make[1]: *** [configure-binutils] Error 1
    no
    checking for bison... /home/nathan/development/tools/arm/src/binutils-2.26.51/missing bison -y
    checking for flex... /home/nathan/development/tools/arm/src/binutils-2.26.51/missing flex
    checking lex output file root... configure: error: cannot find output from /home/nathan/development/tools/arm/src/binutils-2.26.51/missing flex; giving up
    Makefile:4834: recipe for target 'configure-gas' failed
    make[1]: *** [configure-gas] Error 1
    make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/nathan/development/tools/arm/build/binutils-2.26.51'
    Makefile:844: recipe for target 'all' failed
    make: *** [all] Error 2

```

What are the proper steps I need to take in order to get a toolchain setup to compile for an aarch64 `cortex-a53` architecture?

**Edit 1**

Discovered through the comments, I need to install the aarch64 toolchain, not the arm toolchain. Still clueless.