VisionFive2- no longer able to build bootable sdcard

VisionFive 2 (EN)
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For about three weeks I have been unable to build a bootable u-boot sdcard for VisionFive2.
I use the method from here:
https://docs.u-boot.org/en/latest/board/starfive/visionfive2.html

I see the problem is discussed here:
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/521e5549-de83-49a1-a0e5-e47a2cb275ef@freeshell.de/

This email is disturbing.

When will StarFive correct this problem?

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Did you go see RVspace Doc Center?
VF2 is about to release a new image, maybe you can wait and see.

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I thought that the only officially supported boot method for the JH7110 SoC was via QSPI Flash ?

See the most recent boot flow diagram (that I can find) here:

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Hi @rdunkle !

Works with U-Boot v2025.10 and OpenSBI higher than v1.7 for me:

U-Boot SPL 2025.10 (Nov 06 2025 - 07:48:41 +0100)
DDR version: dc2e84f0.
Trying to boot from MMC2

OpenSBI v1.7-71-g38a6106
   ____                    _____ ____ _____
  / __ \                  / ____|  _ \_   _|
 | |  | |_ __   ___ _ __ | (___ | |_) || |
 | |  | | '_ \ / _ \ '_ \ \___ \|  _ < | |
 | |__| | |_) |  __/ | | |____) | |_) || |_
  \____/| .__/ \___|_| |_|_____/|____/_____|
        | |
        |_|

Platform Name               : StarFive VisionFive 2 v1.3B
Platform Features           : medeleg
Platform HART Count         : 4
Platform IPI Device         : aclint-mswi
Platform Timer Device       : aclint-mtimer @ 4000000Hz
Platform Console Device     : uart8250
Platform HSM Device         : ---
Platform PMU Device         : ---
Platform Reboot Device      : pm-reset
Platform Shutdown Device    : pm-reset
Platform Suspend Device     : ---
Platform CPPC Device        : ---
Firmware Base               : 0x40000000
Firmware Size               : 357 KB
Firmware RW Offset          : 0x40000
Firmware RW Size            : 101 KB
Firmware Heap Offset        : 0x4d000
Firmware Heap Size          : 49 KB (total), 0 KB (reserved), 12 KB (used), 35 KB (free)
Firmware Scratch Size       : 4096 B (total), 416 B (used), 3680 B (free)
Runtime SBI Version         : 3.0
Standard SBI Extensions     : time,rfnc,ipi,base,hsm,srst,pmu,dbcn,fwft,legacy,dbtr,sse
Experimental SBI Extensions : none

Domain0 Name                : root
Domain0 Boot HART           : 1
Domain0 HARTs               : 1*,2*,3*,4*
Domain0 Region00            : 0x0000000040040000-0x000000004005ffff M: (F,R,W) S/U: ()
Domain0 Region01            : 0x0000000040000000-0x000000004003ffff M: (F,R,X) S/U: ()
Domain0 Region02            : 0x0000000010000000-0x0000000010000fff M: (I,R,W) S/U: (R,W)
Domain0 Region03            : 0x0000000002000000-0x000000000200ffff M: (I,R,W) S/U: ()
Domain0 Region04            : 0x000000000c000000-0x000000000fffffff M: (I,R,W) S/U: (R,W)
Domain0 Region05            : 0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff M: () S/U: (R,W,X)
Domain0 Next Address        : 0x0000000040200000
Domain0 Next Arg1           : 0x00000000402c1d28
Domain0 Next Mode           : S-mode
Domain0 SysReset            : yes
Domain0 SysSuspend          : yes

Boot HART ID                : 1
Boot HART Domain            : root
Boot HART Priv Version      : v1.11
Boot HART Base ISA          : rv64imafdcbx
Boot HART ISA Extensions    : zihpm,sdtrig
Boot HART PMP Count         : 8
Boot HART PMP Granularity   : 12 bits
Boot HART PMP Address Bits  : 34
Boot HART MHPM Info         : 2 (0x00000018)
Boot HART Debug Triggers    : 8 triggers
Boot HART MIDELEG           : 0x0000000000000222
Boot HART MEDELEG           : 0x000000000000b109


U-Boot 2025.10 (Nov 06 2025 - 07:48:41 +0100)

CPU:   sifive,u74-mc
Model: StarFive VisionFive 2 v1.3B
DRAM:  8 GiB
Core:  159 devices, 29 uclasses, devicetree: board
WDT:   Not starting watchdog@13070000
MMC:   mmc@16010000: 0, mmc@16020000: 1
Loading Environment from SPIFlash... SF: Detected gd25lq128 with page size 256 Bytes, erase size 4 KiB, total 16 MiB
*** Warning - bad CRC, using default environment

StarFive EEPROM format v2

--------EEPROM INFO--------
Vendor : StarFive Technology Co., Ltd.
Product full SN: VF7110B1-2318-D008E000-18003208
data version: 0x2
PCB revision: 0xb2
BOM revision: A
Ethernet MAC0 address: 6c:cf:39:00:5d:7e
Ethernet MAC1 address: 6c:cf:39:00:5d:7f
--------EEPROM INFO--------

starfive_7110_pcie pcie@940000000: Starfive PCIe bus probed.
starfive_7110_pcie pcie@9c0000000: Starfive PCIe bus probed.
In:    serial@10000000
Out:   serial@10000000
Err:   serial@10000000
Net:   eth0: ethernet@16030000, eth1: ethernet@16040000
starting USB...
Register 5000420 NbrPorts 5
Starting the controller
USB XHCI 1.00
Bus xhci_pci: 2 USB Device(s) found
       scanning usb for storage devices... 0 Storage Device(s) found
Working FDT set to ff719f00
Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0
StarFive #

With OpenSBI version 1.7, when building with FW_START_ADDR, the parameter will be ignored. So it defaults to address 0x0 instead of 0x40000000 which raise an exception. That’s might be a bug. But with the current sources in the main/master branch from OpenSBI it works.

Hope this helps.

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