It seems, Starfive won’t provide new images, as last official image is dated from september last year.
I can host a few images. just let me know.
which download methods would be preferred ?
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I’ve somehow bricked my board when updating it to the latest firmware. I’ve now got it booting over UART, but it now seems to want to boot from my old nvme partition no matter what, so – yeah, this is a fine soup. How am I supposed to know, at 3 AM, that the tutorial I was following was outdated?
I want to go back to an old CWT image, maybe it was arch 19? 18? Linux 5.15, X11, but I could build and run classy stuff like PCManFM, Mario 64 and OpenLara, as well as oddball bits of history like NTSC Mosaic and GopherVR. With every continous upgrade this board worked less, and it was in the name of progress, – which I feel we are in the end not getting beacuse it’s RV0.7 and therefore DOA as anything else but a, well, set-top box chip; this is why it’s important to get video decoding working no matter what.
(right, so RV64 and Wayland and Vulkan? So all my OpenGLES apps stopped working - for this?? A perfect storm of new and untested technology is why this board is barely usable, and as it is now, a n00b trap for developers)
I dunno, however you decide to host an array of images, please make a big disclamer on which firmware which image is using and which you weren’t supposed to use alongside which kernel depending on your board version and the amount of RAM your board has.
It is seems uboot has changed some rules…
I suggest either use starfive’s image with same version uboot or update to lastest upstream’s uboot with new distro (offical Fedora, ubuntu etc).
I am still building the wiki — Debian images are already downloadible. Good point to adding some more info(s) and findings
A while ago I asked the same question and the user lzzhzh answered me. he is releasing debian 13 images.
I’m sorry that the starfive team hasn’t written anything more on this forum about possible new releases of official debian images.
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See, this. I booted from a recovery image via UART. Which firmware version am I using now? I tried discerning it from the boot screen, all I get is some serial and build numbers. Did this roll back my firmware?
I can boot Cwt’s arch 13 from SD cards now, at least.
This is need asking the publisher , which distro is the image based on.
cwt arch 13 is seems based on old starfive’s debian. The lastest is arch24.
You can flash to the target version without known which version is used .
Fllow the doc: Recovering the Bootloader