diff --git a/.github/workflows/cross-build.yaml b/.github/workflows/cross-build.yaml
index edc413b5c..ec5627d48 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cross-build.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cross-build.yaml
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ jobs:
             toolchain: ${{ matrix.rust }}
             target: ${{ matrix.target }}
             override: true
+      - name: Install arm64 libfdt
+        run: wget http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/d/device-tree-compiler/libfdt-dev_1.6.0-1_arm64.deb && dpkg-deb -xv libfdt-dev_1.6.0-1_arm64.deb ./tlibfdtdev && sudo mkdir /tmmmp && mkdir target && mkdir target/debug && mkdir target/debug/deps && sudo cp ./tlibfdtdev/usr/lib/aarch64-linux-gnu/libfdt.a target/debug/deps/libfdt.a && echo "libfdt installed"
       - name: Disable "with-serde" in kvm-bindings
         run: sed -i 's/"with-serde",\ //g' vmm/Cargo.toml
       - name: Build