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 ```
 3. Build u-boot.bin
 ```
-make CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu-
+CROSS_COMPILE=aarch64-linux-gnu- make
 ```
 
 You now have a u-boot.bin that you can flash to a target with using fastboot.