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Skribent: Dennis Clarke
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Emne: Re: [devuan-dev] Is there any possible way to install Devuan Excalibur onto a SiFive RISC-V UnMatched board?
On 6/29/24 17:55, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 05:29:08PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>

...
>>      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.
>


Is there documentation for that ?


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