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Then take the mini-sd card, insert it in HiFive, power on and it will boot (no need to change default jumper settings). This will be a minimal non-Debian busybox system. Login is root/sifive.

=== Configuring kernel ===

How to configure the kernel using SiFive's SDK, cloned in the steps above.

{{{
make linux-menuconfig
make
# Then install on mini-sd:
sudo make DISK=/dev/sdXXX format-boot-loader
}}}

Ya, that's it. :)

Configure options to enable to get Debian going:

FUSE -- not needed necessarily, but needed for sshfs which can be faster than the slow sd card.

NFS -- Same as FUSE.

If you are going to boot the Busybox system, use this:
{{{
CONFIG_CMDLINE="earlyprintk"
}}}

If you have a Debian system on the second partition, use the following. The rootdelay is so the mmc has time to start up to be used as a root device. It may need just 2 seconds or so.
{{{
CONFIG_CMDLINE="earlyprintk root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=5
}}}

You can change this to set a local version to keep track of your kernel revisions:

CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-99foobar"

One problem is systemd doesn't spawn a login terminal.... There's a few that systemd requires, this isn't the full list:

CONFIG_CGROUPS=y
CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y
CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y

If you are booting Debian, not the Busybox system, you can disable:

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD

CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y

This is the ethernet card and enabled by default:

CONFIG_MACB=y

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Models covered
Generic Computer

  • Generic SubModel, 13.3", 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 2GB DDR3 SDRAM, 128 GB SDD, NVIDIA GeForce 9400M

Overall Status

Core Components

[ATTACH]

Boot Standard Kernel:

{-}

LAN network card (Generic Ethernet):

{-}

Detect hard drives:

{-}

Xorg

{-}

Extra Features

CPU Frequency Scaling

{-}

Hibernation

[-]

Sleep / Suspend

[-]

Legend :
{OK} = OK ; {X} Unsupported(No Driver) ; /!\ = Error (Couldn't get it working); [?] Unknown, Not Test ; [-] Not-applicable
{i} = Configuration Required; X-( = Only works with a non-free driver and or firmware

Important Note

Debian on the ?HiFive is very new. There are no public images available yet.

See: RISC-V

Installing Debian on HiFive

The easiest way at present to run Debian binaries on a ?HiFive is to boot the official ?SiFive image with a Debian install on the second partition and chroot into it. From there Debian's apt, ssh, apache, etc. can be run. A Debian chroot can be created with debootstrap or multistrap, each with some caveats. Multistrap leaves more of the system to configure. Debootstrap at present requires a version of qemu that is newer than what is in sid.

Creating a chroot with multistrap

apt install multistrap debian-ports-archive-keyring

cat >/tmp/multistrap-riscv64.conf <<EOF
[General]
arch=riscv64
aptsources=Unstable Unreleased Sid-main
bootstrap=Unstable Unreleased Sid-main

[Sid-main]
source=http://deb.debian.org/debian
suite=unstable
omitdebsrc=true
keyring=debian-archive-keyring
packages=XXX

[Unstable]
source=http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports
suite=unstable
omitdebsrc=true
keyring=debian-ports-archive-keyring
packages=XXX

[Unreleased]
source=http://deb.debian.org/debian-ports
suite=unreleased
omitdebsrc=true
packages=XXX
EOF

multistrap -d /tmp/riscv64-chroot -f /tmp/multistrap-riscv64.conf

That will make a chroot you can copy to the second partition of the mini-sd card. Then boot that up, log in as root/sifive. By default, the image does DHCP and starts ssh.

mount /dev/mmcblk0p2 /mnt
chroot /mnt
cat /etc/debian_version

mount proc -t proc /proc

You may have to do this to clean up the package system:

export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN=true
export LC_ALL=C LANGUAGE=C LANG=C
/var/lib/dpkg/info/dash.preinst install
dpkg --configure -a
# Make sure all is ok
apt -f install

Building a Kernel

The stock kernel from ?SiFive won't boot Debian as it is missing a few modules. A kernel from ?SiFive's git repo can be built which will (mostly) boot Debian. Run this to build a kernel and bootloader under Debian Stretch. (Buster and Sid had build issues for me.) This is a big download (multi gig) and takes a long time to compile. It is much faster to re-build ccache is installed.

# Install build dependencies:

apt install build-essential ccache gawk texinfo bison flex libmpfr-dev libgmp-dev libmpc-dev zlib1g-dev bc unzip libssl-dev python wget gdisk libncurses5-dev

# Set up ccache. Not necessary, but makes re-builds much faster.
echo 'PATH=/usr/lib/ccache:$PATH' >> ~/.bashrc
. ~/.bashrc
ccache -M 2G

git clone https://github.com/sifive/freedom-u-sdk.git

cd freedom-u-sdk
git submodule update --init --recursive
make

Install this image on the mini SD card. Change /dev/sdXXX to your mini SD card (see dmesg | tail after inserting for device name). Note, be sure to get the right device name as this will overwrite data.

sudo make DISK=/dev/sdXXX format-boot-loader

Then take the mini-sd card, insert it in ?HiFive, power on and it will boot (no need to change default jumper settings). This will be a minimal non-Debian busybox system. Login is root/sifive.

Configuring kernel

How to configure the kernel using ?SiFive's SDK, cloned in the steps above.

make linux-menuconfig
make
# Then install on mini-sd:
sudo make DISK=/dev/sdXXX format-boot-loader

Ya, that's it. :)

Configure options to enable to get Debian going:

FUSE -- not needed necessarily, but needed for sshfs which can be faster than the slow sd card.

NFS -- Same as FUSE.

If you are going to boot the Busybox system, use this:

CONFIG_CMDLINE="earlyprintk"

If you have a Debian system on the second partition, use the following. The rootdelay is so the mmc has time to start up to be used as a root device. It may need just 2 seconds or so.

CONFIG_CMDLINE="earlyprintk root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootdelay=5 

You can change this to set a local version to keep track of your kernel revisions:

CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-99foobar"

One problem is systemd doesn't spawn a login terminal.... There's a few that systemd requires, this isn't the full list:

CONFIG_CGROUPS=y CONFIG_AUTOFS4_FS=y CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y

If you are booting Debian, not the Busybox system, you can disable:

CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD

CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y

This is the ethernet card and enabled by default:

CONFIG_MACB=y

Info

Console

There is no display output hardware on the ?HiFive. Use minicom to connect via USB serial port. Settings 115200 baud, 8N1.

minicom -D /dev/ttyUSB1

Keyboard, Video, Mouse

There is no USB or PS/2, so no keyboard or mouse. Video output is serial console.

Power Management

The units default to running at 1GHz. Units that shipped to the Crowdsupply can run up to 1.4GHz (may be unstable).

Network

Ethernet Cadence GEM.

There is no wifi.

System Summary

Resources

Attachments

Some configuration files and sample outputs.

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