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Author: Ralph Ronnquist
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Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] Is there any possible way to install Devuan Excalibur onto a SiFive RISC-V UnMatched board?
On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 05:29:08PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
> All :
>
>     I am fairly certain that the Debian folks have had a slew of basic
> packages for RISC-V ready for some years. I ran some tests of that
> situation last year. Also, unrelated, FreeBSD has a pretty darn good
> install process for RISC-V also. Which is to say that the packages in
> the FreeBSD ports are really quite clean for compile and run on RISC-V.
> Which is a good thing given that a ton of that stuff is the stuff people
> want like OBS for streaming and FFMpeg and whatever. I have not yet done
> a test with the Gentoo Linux install process and perhaps I should.

>
>     In any case there is pretty slick support for the SiFive RISC-V
> hardware in the baseline Linux kernel as well as a whole slew of
> packages that should "just work". At least in theory.

>
>     The trick then, as they say, is the boot loader ( GRUB2 ) and then
> the initramfs and goodies for the minimal installer. So I am thinking
> that I can certainly do some work on this.

>
>     Also, the same idea goes for IBM POWER9 architecture.


You can debootstrap a filesystem on an amd64 using multiarch or just
using qemu-user-static + binfmt-support.

The boot setup is probably specific for the target device though. I
don't have a device to play with.

Ralph.

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> [1] hardware on hand is the HiFive Unmatched Rev B
> [2] also real soon now https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-premier-p550
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