Mainline u-boot // documentation page for VF2

paul63 · August 24, 2023, 2:25pm

In the u-boot mainline repo is information about booting Linux on the VF2:

u-boot/u-boot/blob/master/doc/board/starfive/visionfive2.rst

.. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0+

StarFive VisionFive2
====================

JH7110 RISC-V SoC
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The JH7110 is 4+1 64-bit RISC-V SoC from StarFive.

The StarFive VisionFive2 development platform is based on JH7110 and capable
of running Linux.

Mainline support
----------------

The support for following drivers are already enabled:

1. ns16550 UART Driver.
2. StarFive JH7110 clock Driver.
3. StarFive JH7110 reset Driver.

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The setup is very different from that used in the Starfive u-boot repo: it uses FW_DYNAMIC instead of FW_PAYLOAD, and in the boot partition on disk it no longer uses a FIT archive + uEnv.txt file, but separate boot components (image, initramfs, dtb).

I can understand the change to FW_DYNAMIC, but why was the FIT archive abandoned?

Also, at the end that doc page has a line “Use prebuilt image from here [1], which support to partition the SPI flash.” However, there is no footnote [1] with a link.

easytarget · August 24, 2023, 4:43pm

It’s been committed on GitHub, why not ask the author there?

paul63 · August 24, 2023, 6:51pm

Excellent suggestion: I will do that.