VisionFive 2 Debian Image 202302 Released

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VisionFive 2 Debian Image 202302 has been released. here is the simple release notes. please check the wiki page for more detail: VisionFive 2 Debian Wiki - 202302 Release | RVspace

Tips: Debian Image 69 will not boot if you upgrade firmware to v2.10.4, so please flash new Debian Image and boot it from TF/eMMC directly based on bootmode switch position;

Image Download link: https://debian.starfivetech.com/

What’s New

  • Supported SBC: VF2 v1.2A and v1.3B
  • Based on Linux kernel 5.15 (VisionFive2 Software tag: v2.6.0);
  • Based on StarFive U-Boot tag v2.10.4;
  • Upgraded Debian snapshot from 20220616T194833Z to 20221225T084846Z
  • Added ESWIN 6600U WiFi Dongle support;
  • Added HDMI audio support;
  • Upgraded OpenSSL to version 3.0.7;
  • Added SD/eMMC boot flow feature;
  • openssh-server package is now removed from the image by default;
  • Only the minimal image will be provided. A shell script is provided to get the additional packages from StarFive;

Known Issues / Limitation

  • 4K resolution is not working in X
  • XFCE desktop resizing slowness
  • 1080p60 video playback issue
  • libreoffice slowness using gtk3
  • Mosaic pictures after login
  • xeglinfo crashes X server
  • Qt modules qtwebengine failed to build
  • Firefox hardware acceleration is not working
  • NWjs Filesystem access APIs failed.
  • NWjs mp3 encoder failed to be detected
  • Hang after awhile in dual display [MIPI+HDMI]
  • 4K monitor does not display properly
  • First login will prompt back to login page
  • Failure on multi-channel MJPEG decoding by GStreamer

Fixed Issues

  • The boot partition will now use ‘/boot/’ instead of ‘/boot/boot’;
  • FFmpeg & GStreamer plug-in issues;
  • v4l2 pipeline issue;
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Great work!

The boot partition will now use ‘/boot/’ instead of ‘/boot/boot’;

This bothered me more than I would admit :slight_smile:

P.S. Will there ever be a Fedora image?

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Thanks for the update. What about the GPU? When will it be open sourced?

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That timing is really up to Imagination Technologies and not StarFive.

Ref:

And:

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Alright I see thanks. I asked because I was looking to buy another VF2 but it still not opensourced gpu.

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Does this mean we wont have SSH connectivity to headless installs?

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Hmmm

Just took another VF2 board, flashed an SD card with the new image, use RS232 to update OpenSBI and uboot, and I’m greated with that:

## Warning: defaulting to text format
Can't set block device
libfdt fdt_check_header(): FDT_ERR_BADMAGIC
Retrieving file: /boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf
Can't set block device
Error reading config file

u-boot is not latest it could be, but is fairly recent:

StarFive # version
U-Boot 2021.10 (Jan 19 2023 - 04:09:41 +0800), Build: jenkins-github_visionfive2-6

riscv64-buildroot-linux-gnu-gcc.br_real (Buildroot VF2_v2.8.0) 10.3.0
GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.36.1
StarFive #

I suspect that this new image come with a new but incompatible version of uboot?
You should really put both u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out and visionfive2_fw_payload.img along the image download with a big warning that these probably be needed to be updated before the image will work.

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And updated OpenSBI & Uboot with the versions from Release VisionFive2 Software v2.10.4 · starfive-tech/VisionFive2 · GitHub

And it is now booting :slight_smile:

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Did you change the boot switches to the SDIO3.0 position. Because then it should read the latest u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out (SPL) and the fw_payload.img (OpenSBI + U-Boot) directly from the SD card if you are using the starfive-jh7110-202302-SD-minimal-desktop.img.

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Oh, so the switch work now? I’m using the recommended setting from the last time I setup a board with when looking at the board with the USB port in front, both switches on the right side :slight_smile:

Will change the SD setting once I finished setup the rootfs

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That is how I interpreted this:

When looking at the boot flow diagram.

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Yup sounds sensible :slight_smile:

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Confirmed - this works. Thank you.

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Gents,

If the switch is working now could you please check if it is now possible to from nvme ssd?
By boot from nvme ssd I mean boot from SPI Flash that will look for OS image at nvme ssd.

Thanks

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Kernel needs to be somewhere not nvme, as u-boot still does not have pci-e support.

For now, I load kernel from sd with root= pointing to nvme. It’s not a terrible solution.

I could put the kernel at the end of the SPI, where there is enough storage, but I would still need the sd, as u-boot configuration is held there. There’s space reserved in SPI for u-boot env, but it is not being used currently.

Using the sd as a clutch until pci-e support is in place seems to be the better solution for now.

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you can use ssh by this way.
Enable SSH Root Login (rvspace.org)

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That is something WIP by the engineering team, some codes are in place, but we don’t have a commit date internally yet.

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@kira
I think you are missing the point if you think my problem with this is not knowing how to use apt install.

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@easytarget
i might know what you mean, i didnot try like that way. sorry.