Thanks for the replies. I will give it a whirl.
It's funny to me that there is support for RPi's and IMX6's, but that the arch that's [arguably] almost certainly still the #1 architecture around the world has had support for it dropped. I know x86_64 is the next best thing, but with such an abundance of these machines lying around, one would imagine it would still very much in demand.
Could be that I'm out of touch of course.