RISC-V Adventures, Part 2

2023-01-15•systems risc-v embedded visionfive

Prerequisites

StarFive VisionFive 2 (Super Early Bird edition in my case)
version 2.5.0 of the bootloader software

Process

Flash sdcard.img to an SD card
Copy the u-boot SPL and firmware to the device

scp -O u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out visionfive2_fw_payload.img scp://root@192.168.1.195:22

Verify the mtd layout

# cat /proc/mtd
dev:    size   erasesize  name
mtd0: 00020000 00001000 "spl"
mtd1: 00300000 00001000 "uboot"
mtd2: 00100000 00001000 "data"

Update firmware:

# flashcp -v u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out /dev/mtd0
Erasing blocks: 32/32 (100%)
Writing data: 124k/124k (100%)
Verifying data: 124k/124k (100%)

# flashcp -v visionfive2_fw_payload.img /dev/mtd1
Erasing blocks: 682/682 (100%)
Writing data: 2727k/2727k (100%)
Verifying data: 2727k/2727k (100%)

Now you can boot the Image-69 Debian

Things to note:

Logging in to a graphical session as root is not recommended, there's actually an undocumented user in the image, with the creative name user, using the same password ('starfive')
At the very first login, it will fail. This is a known issue, they will probably fix it at some point, just log in one more time.

debian

And that's it. Next time, actual building of stuff.

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