Firefox alone does not take several days but the dependencies. emerge firefox has now crashed with unknown error. Seems to be an clang issue. I don’t use gcc for this specific build as there is a dependency problem with llvm on my VF2. A bit frustrating sometimes.
Does it make any sense to setup a public binpkg host for us where we can share prebuild riscv packages? Maybe this saves us some time? Or are the emerge builds very individual?
The emerge builds can be different depending on the USE flags that are used.
What error are you getting on the build of Firefox? Have you opened a gentoo bug report.If you open a Gentoo bug report make sure to select the riscv hardware
This is the version of Firefox I have installed
Installed versions: 115.10.0(esr)(01:08:43 04/18/24)(X clang dbus gmp-autoupdate hwaccel pulseaudio system-av1 system-harfbuzz system-icu system-jpeg system-libevent system-libvpx system-webp wifi -debug -eme-free -geckodriver -hardened -jack -libproxy -lto -openh264 -pgo -screencast -selinux -sndio -system-png -system-python-libs -wayland CPU_FLAGS_ARM=“-neon” L10N=“-ach -af -an -ar -ast -az -be -bg -bn -br -bs -ca -ca-valencia -cak -cs -cy -da -de -dsb -el -en-CA -en-GB -eo -es-AR -es-CL -es-ES -es-MX -et -eu -fa -ff -fi -fr -fur -fy -ga -gd -gl -gn -gu -he -hi -hr -hsb -hu -hy -ia -id -is -it -ja -ka -kab -kk -km -kn -ko -lij -lt -lv -mk -mr -ms -my -nb -ne -nl -nn -oc -pa -pl -pt-BR -pt-PT -rm -ro -ru -sc -sco -si -sk -sl -son -sq -sr -sv -szl -ta -te -th -tl -tr -trs -uk -ur -uz -vi -xh -zh-CN -zh-TW”)
Homepage: Get Firefox browser — Mozilla (US)
Description: Firefox Web Browser
See if the error you got with Firefox is the same as the one I have reported this morning https://bugs.gentoo.org/935714
No, it’s a different one. I’ve tried now with llvm17 and clang17 but the error is the same and very unspecific.
277:15.97 gmake[4]: Entering directory '/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/work/firefox_build/js/src'
277:16.07 /usr/lib/llvm/17/bin/riscv64-unknown-linux-gnu-clang++-17 -o Unified_cpp_js_src9.o -c -I/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/work/firefox_build/dist/stl_wrappers -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -fstack-protector-strong -DNDEBUG=1 -DTRIMMED=1 -DWASM_SUPPORTS_HUGE_MEMORY -DJS_HAS_CTYPES -DEXPORT_JS_API -DMOZ_HAS_MOZGLUE -I/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/work/firefox-127.0.2/js/src -I/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/work/firefox_build/js/src -I/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/work/firefox-127.0.2/intl/icu_capi/c/include -I/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/work/firefox_build/dist/include -I/usr/include/nspr -I/usr/include/nss -I/usr/include/nspr -I/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/work/firefox_build/dist/include/nss -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -DMOZILLA_CLIENT -include /data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/work/firefox_build/js/src/js-confdefs.h -fno-sized-deallocation -fno-aligned-new -march=rv64imafdc_zicsr_zba_zbb -mcpu=sifive-u74 -mtune=sifive-7-series -pipe -fPIC -fno-rtti -ffunction-sections -fdata-sections -fno-exceptions -fno-math-errno -pthread -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -funwind-tables -Wall -Wbitfield-enum-conversion -Wempty-body -Wformat-type-confusion -Wignored-qualifiers -Wpointer-arith -Wshadow-field-in-constructor-modified -Wsign-compare -Wtautological-constant-in-range-compare -Wtype-limits -Wno-error=tautological-type-limit-compare -Wunreachable-code -Wunreachable-code-return -Wunused-but-set-parameter -Wno-invalid-offsetof -Wclass-varargs -Wempty-init-stmt -Wfloat-overflow-conversion -Wfloat-zero-conversion -Wloop-analysis -Wno-range-loop-analysis -Wenum-compare-conditional -Wenum-float-conversion -Wno-deprecated-anon-enum-enum-conversion -Wno-deprecated-enum-enum-conversion -Wno-deprecated-this-capture -Wcomma -Wimplicit-fallthrough -Wstring-conversion -Wno-inline-new-delete -Wno-error=deprecated-declarations -Wno-error=array-bounds -Wno-error=free-nonheap-object -Wno-error=atomic-alignment -Wno-error=deprecated-builtins -Wformat -Wformat-security -Wno-psabi -Wthread-safety -Wno-error=builtin-macro-redefined -Wno-unknown-warning-option -Werror=format -fstandalone-debug -I/usr/lib64/libffi/include -fno-strict-aliasing -ffp-contract=off -MD -MP -MF .deps/Unified_cpp_js_src9.o.pp -fcolor-diagnostics Unified_cpp_js_src9.cpp
277:16.08 gmake[4]: Leaving directory '/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/work/firefox_build/js/src'
277:16.08 gmake[4]: Entering directory '/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/work/firefox_build/js/src'
277:16.09 gmake[4]: Leaving directory '/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/work/firefox_build/js/src'
277:16.10 gmake[2]: *** [/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/work/firefox-127.0.2/config/recurse.mk:34: compile] Error 2
277:16.10 gmake[1]: *** [/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/work/firefox-127.0.2/config/rules.mk:361: default] Error 2
277:16.10 gmake: *** [client.mk:60: build] Error 2
277:16.11 W 96 compiler warnings present.
* ERROR: www-client/firefox-127.0.2::gentoo failed (compile phase):
* (no error message)
*
* Call stack:
* ebuild.sh, line 136: Called src_compile
* environment, line 5167: Called die
* The specific snippet of code:
* ${virtx_cmd} ./mach build --verbose || die
*
* If you need support, post the output of `emerge --info '=www-client/firefox-127.0.2::gentoo'`,
* the complete build log and the output of `emerge -pqv '=www-client/firefox-127.0.2::gentoo'`.
* The complete build log is located at '/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/temp/build.log'.
* The ebuild environment file is located at '/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/temp/environment'.
* Working directory: '/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/work/firefox-127.0.2'
* S: '/data/portage_tmpdir/portage/www-client/firefox-127.0.2/work/firefox-127.0.2'
emerge --info '=www-client/firefox-127.0.2::gentoo' shows:
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I’ll file a bug when I have the time to do so …
try the esr version.
emerge --ask --verbose www-client/firefox:esr
Well, the firefox esr version emerged just fine! I had some crashes after opening firefox. But when I visit some websites right after the start firefox keeps running. Strange.
In dmesg I can see these core dumps:
[ 428.871901] firefox[997]: memfd_create() called without MFD_EXEC or MFD_NOEXEC_SEAL set
[ 459.805008] Isolated Web Co[1207]: unhandled signal 4 code 0x1 at 0x0000003f11a5e220
[ 459.812783] CPU: 1 PID: 1207 Comm: Isolated Web Co Tainted: G O T 6.6.20 #2
[ 459.820970] Hardware name: StarFive VisionFive 2 v1.3B (DT)
[ 459.826547] epc : 0000003f11a5e220 ra : 0000003f1194fb10 sp : 0000003fc7f22d70
[ 459.833778] gp : 0000002ad74ed800 tp : 0000003fa1e26f20 t0 : 0000003f0dcf57f0
[ 459.841007] t1 : fffe003f117b3308 t2 : fffb003f116a6c00 s0 : 0000003fc7f22d70
[ 459.848231] s1 : 0000003f11a5d6e0 a0 : 0000003f1194f9d0 a1 : 655adc4121958700
[ 459.855458] a2 : 0000000000000022 a3 : 0000003fa00cef80 a4 : 655adc4121958700
[ 459.862685] a5 : 0000000000000800 a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : fffffffffffff000
[ 459.869907] s2 : 0000003fc7f23c70 s3 : 0000000000000000 s4 : 0000003fc7f23c70
[ 459.877133] s5 : 0000000000000002 s6 : fffe003f0d59f3f8 s7 : 0000003fc7f23978
[ 459.884357] s8 : 0000003fa226dd08 s9 : 0000003f91420200 s10: 0000000000000000
[ 459.891583] s11: 000000000001fffc t3 : 0000003fa22584be t4 : 0000003f11a5e220
[ 459.898809] t5 : 0000003f91420ba8 t6 : fffb000000000000
[ 459.904119] status: 0000000200004020 badaddr: 0000000002f35e93 cause: 0000000000000002
[ 4408.430803] Isolated Web Co[29505]: unhandled signal 4 code 0x1 at 0x0000003f247511a0
[ 4408.438664] CPU: 3 PID: 29505 Comm: Isolated Web Co Tainted: G O T 6.6.20 #2
[ 4408.446944] Hardware name: StarFive VisionFive 2 v1.3B (DT)
[ 4408.452531] epc : 0000003f247511a0 ra : 0000003f24710894 sp : 0000003fe4757108
[ 4408.459761] gp : 0000002ae2d18800 tp : 0000003fb4da5f20 t0 : ffffffffffffffff
[ 4408.466998] t1 : 0000003fb11cdb0a t2 : 0000000000002008 s0 : 0000003fe4757140
[ 4408.474227] s1 : 0000000000000000 a0 : 0000003f247511a0 a1 : 0000000000000004
[ 4408.481452] a2 : 0000003fe47577e0 a3 : 0000000000000000 a4 : 0000003f1f80cc80
[ 4408.488692] a5 : 0000000000000000 a6 : 0000000000000000 a7 : 0000003fe4757248
[ 4408.495941] s2 : 0000003fe47577e0 s3 : 0000000000000063 s4 : 0000003fe47577e0
[ 4408.503179] s5 : 0000000000000004 s6 : fff9800000000000 s7 : 0000003fe4757248
[ 4408.510411] s8 : 0000003fb51ecd08 s9 : 0000003fa4320200 s10: 0000000000000000
[ 4408.517643] s11: 0000000000000003 t3 : 0000003fb51d74be t4 : 0000000000000000
[ 4408.524879] t5 : 0000003f247106e4 t6 : 000000041e0c1738
[ 4408.530205] status: 0000000200004020 badaddr: 00000000ff810113 cause: 0000000000000002
[ 4435.167595] Isolated Web Co[29506]: unhandled signal 4 code 0x1 at 0x0000003f0aafd520
[ 4435.175454] CPU: 2 PID: 29506 Comm: Isolated Web Co Tainted: G O T 6.6.20 #2
[ 4435.183733] Hardware name: StarFive VisionFive 2 v1.3B (DT)
[ 4435.189324] epc : 0000003f0aafd520 ra : 0000003f0aafcc8c sp : 0000003ffc6fc7f8
[ 4435.196563] gp : 0000002ad0338800 tp : 0000003f9aeb1f20 t0 : 0000003f083bc878
[ 4435.203797] t1 : fffb003f04f144c0 t2 : fffb003f0a895c00 s0 : 0000003ffc6fc838
[ 4435.211030] s1 : 0000003f0a901360 a0 : 0000000000000001 a1 : b82fb92d4e670400
[ 4435.218263] a2 : fffa000000000000 a3 : 000000000000000a a4 : 000000000000ffe5
[ 4435.225493] a5 : 0000003ffc6fc706 a6 : 000000000000ffe6 a7 : 0000003f9b2f8d08
[ 4435.232723] s2 : 0000003f8a5f8220 s3 : 0000000000000023 s4 : 0000003f8a5f8220
[ 4435.239957] s5 : 0000000000000002 s6 : fffe003f04fc1948 s7 : 0000003ffc6fcab8
[ 4435.247188] s8 : 0000003f9b2f8d08 s9 : 0000003f8a520200 s10: 0000000000000000
[ 4435.254416] s11: fffe003f05aa4218 t3 : 0000003f9afa9d9e t4 : 0000003f0aafd520
[ 4435.261650] t5 : 0000003f05aa4218 t6 : 0000003f953f198e
[ 4435.266989] status: 0000000200004020 badaddr: 0000000002f3de93 cause: 0000000000000002
If anyone want to try to safe some time and want to try out my binary, here it is without any support 
Has anyone tried out the mainline kernel? I’ve successfully booted from a sys-kernel/gentoo-sources:6.15.6 built on the VisionFive 2 itself. There’s still no video out or heartbeat led but everything else works flawlessly and it works great as a headless system to uart or SSH into. Here is the kernel config (138.0 KB) I used for anyone else who wants to try.
If you have a 8GB VisionFive 2 you might have to edit the memory sections of the upstreamed kernels dts code. As a quick and dirty example:
--- /usr/src/linux/arch/riscv/boot/dts/starfive/jh7110-common.dtsi (4GB)
+++ /usr/src/linux/arch/riscv/boot/dts/starfive/jh7110-common.dtsi (8GB)
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@
memory@40000000 {
device_type = "memory";
- reg = <0x0 0x40000000 0x1 0x0>;
+ reg = <0x0 0x40000000 0x2 0x0>;
};
gpio-restart {
I have not tried it as I am using 6.12.5 with the GPU active.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have that upstream? Looking at JH7110 Upstream Status | RVspace it seems like the DC8200 driver is one of the last not mainlined yet. I wonder if there’s any more recent update on this?
Looking at the patch differences it seems to mainly add new files. That makes me wonder if we could apply it as a user patch through /etc/portage/patches - Gentoo wiki cleanly.
Hi rvcray, are you able to boot 6.15 from the sdcard?
I’m curious because the kernel starting from 6.10 doesn’t recognize the sdcard on my VF2.
I described my problem here: Rev v1.3b: SD Card not detected after kernel 6.10
Sorry for the very late reply. In case it’s still relevant; yes, kernel 6.15.6 boots from an SDcard perfectly for me but naturally there’s no display output so you’ll likely have to use UART until ssh is setup. Here’s extlinux.conf.gz (421 Bytes) and config.gz (30.4 KB) of a booting system.
The dtb file is generated when the kernel is built and should be copied to the boot partition. For example: cp /usr/src/linux-6.15.6-gentoo/arch/riscv/boot/dts/starfive/jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-v1.3b.dtb /boot/dtbs
As mentioned in Experimental Gentoo Image - #127 by rvcray you might want to edit the dtsi if you have a 8GB model. While an 8GB model will run without editing the dtsi doing so means it’s only able to use 4GB.
Updated to kernel 6.18 successfully. Here is its config.gz (31.1 KB).
One of the new configuration options is CONFIG_DRM_POWERVR. I’m not sure if this is applicable to the Imagination BXE-4-32 GPU in the JH7110 but it could be exciting.
Thank you! Then I believe my board has some hw issue affecting the card-detect pin.
If that’s the case then the kernel config in Experimental Gentoo Image - #132 by rvcray should also be able to boot off of a NVME drive as well since CONFIG_NVMEM_U_BOOT_ENV=y although I haven’t tried to do this myself.
As far as I know the support for it in MESA has been merged.
See https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/merge_requests/37790
It’s good to see progress but if you look at the powervr.rst on that merge you will see our GPU is still on the unsupported list:
The following hardware is unsupported and not under active development:
========= =========== ==============
Product Series B.V.N.C
========= =========== ==============
GX6250 Series 6XT 4.45.2.58
GX6650 Series 6XT 4.46.6.62
G6110 Series 6XE 5.9.1.46
GE8300 Series 8XE 22.68.54.30
GE8300 Series 8XE 22.102.54.38
BXE-2-32 B-Series 36.29.52.182
BXE-4-32 B-Series 36.50.54.182 <- Hey, that's us!
========= =========== ==============
A Mesa maintainer posted in a issue about BXE-4-32 support in October, they’re open to supporting it but can’t do it on their own.
I’m no Mesa or kernel developer but from my limited understanding there’s not much point in upstreaming BXE-4-32 in Mesa until the these patches for the DC8200 have been upstreamed into the kernel. Without it, the HDMI port won’t display anything.
The good news is that the DC8200 is mentioned around the kernels source code, just nothing in a path containing ‘drm’.
$ grep -Rn DC8200 /usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/drivers/clk/starfive/clk-starfive-jh7110-vout.c:36: JH71X0__DIV(JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_PIX, "dc8200_pix", 63, JH7110_VOUTCLK_VOUT_SRC),
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/drivers/clk/starfive/clk-starfive-jh7110-vout.c:40: JH71X0_GATE(JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_AXI, "dc8200_axi", 0, JH7110_VOUTCLK_VOUT_TOP_AXI),
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/drivers/clk/starfive/clk-starfive-jh7110-vout.c:41: JH71X0_GATE(JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_CORE, "dc8200_core", 0, JH7110_VOUTCLK_VOUT_TOP_AXI),
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/drivers/clk/starfive/clk-starfive-jh7110-vout.c:42: JH71X0_GATE(JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_AHB, "dc8200_ahb", 0, JH7110_VOUTCLK_VOUT_TOP_AHB),
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/drivers/clk/starfive/clk-starfive-jh7110-vout.c:43: JH71X0_GMUX(JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_PIX0, "dc8200_pix0", 0, 2,
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/drivers/clk/starfive/clk-starfive-jh7110-vout.c:44: JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_PIX,
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/drivers/clk/starfive/clk-starfive-jh7110-vout.c:46: JH71X0_GMUX(JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_PIX1, "dc8200_pix1", 0, 2,
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/drivers/clk/starfive/clk-starfive-jh7110-vout.c:47: JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_PIX,
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/drivers/clk/starfive/clk-starfive-jh7110-vout.c:51: JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_PIX0,
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/drivers/clk/starfive/clk-starfive-jh7110-vout.c:52: JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_PIX1),
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/drivers/clk/starfive/clk-starfive-jh7110-vout.c:57: JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_PIX,
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/scripts/dtc/include-prefixes/dt-bindings/clock/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:281:#define JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_PIX 1
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/scripts/dtc/include-prefixes/dt-bindings/clock/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:284:#define JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_AXI 4
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/scripts/dtc/include-prefixes/dt-bindings/clock/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:285:#define JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_CORE 5
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/scripts/dtc/include-prefixes/dt-bindings/clock/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:286:#define JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_AHB 6
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/scripts/dtc/include-prefixes/dt-bindings/clock/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:287:#define JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_PIX0 7
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/scripts/dtc/include-prefixes/dt-bindings/clock/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:288:#define JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_PIX1 8
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/scripts/dtc/include-prefixes/dt-bindings/reset/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:199:#define JH7110_VOUTRST_DC8200_AXI 0
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/scripts/dtc/include-prefixes/dt-bindings/reset/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:200:#define JH7110_VOUTRST_DC8200_AHB 1
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/scripts/dtc/include-prefixes/dt-bindings/reset/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:201:#define JH7110_VOUTRST_DC8200_CORE 2
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/include/dt-bindings/clock/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:281:#define JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_PIX 1
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/include/dt-bindings/clock/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:284:#define JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_AXI 4
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/include/dt-bindings/clock/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:285:#define JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_CORE 5
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/include/dt-bindings/clock/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:286:#define JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_AHB 6
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/include/dt-bindings/clock/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:287:#define JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_PIX0 7
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/include/dt-bindings/clock/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:288:#define JH7110_VOUTCLK_DC8200_PIX1 8
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/include/dt-bindings/reset/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:199:#define JH7110_VOUTRST_DC8200_AXI 0
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/include/dt-bindings/reset/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:200:#define JH7110_VOUTRST_DC8200_AHB 1
/usr/src/linux-6.18.0-gentoo/include/dt-bindings/reset/starfive,jh7110-crg.h:201:#define JH7110_VOUTRST_DC8200_CORE 2
I do not know if you saw this but someone outside of StarFive has started to look at the Verisilicon DC8200 display controller in the JH7110 SoC and utilizing some relatively new features in the Linux kernel (generic Power Sequencing pwrseq subsystem, introduced in the Linux 6.11 kernel).
ref: Igniting the GPU: From Kernel Plumbing to 3D Rendering on RISC-V | Linux Kernel Blog (search for JH7110 in the blog post)
They have not published much in relation to the JH7110, but they are at least looked at it in parallel with what they are currently doing in the above link.
Nice! This patch in particular looks exciting. Hopefully we see an option like CONFIG_PHY_STARFIVE_JH7110_INNO_HDMI in Linux 6.20
drm-next-2026-01-08 has upstreamed patches that generalize some of Rockchips inno-hdmi code that can be shared. Good news for us.
The latest version of media-libs/mesa now has support for the imagination GPU’s using the Vulkan driver.