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Autor: Ralph Ronnquist
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Assunto: Re: [devuan-dev] Is there any possible way to install Devuan Excalibur onto a SiFive RISC-V UnMatched board?
On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 09:25:41AM +1000, Ralph Ronnquist wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2024 at 06:44:05PM -0400, Dennis Clarke wrote:
> > 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 ?
>
> Note sure. There are some loose tidbits at
> https://wiki.debian.org/QemuUserEmulation
>
> My mind has accumulated varous random advice into:
>
> 1. Install those two packages.
>
> 2. Use the two-stage method for debootstrap; i.e.
>    1. use --foreign at first, and


(for example)
# http_proxy=http://localhost:3142 debootstrap \
     --arch=riscv64 --foreign --variant=minbase \
     ceres $TARGET http://deb.devuan.org/merged


>    2. add /usr/bin/qemu-riskv64-static from main host into target (same path)
>       # cp /usr/bin/qemu-riskv64-static $TARGET/usr/bin/
>    3. then simly chroot into target as
>       # chroot $TARGET /debootstrap/debootstrap --second-stage

>
> That'd be all (apart from the mounting etc)
>
> Ralph.
>
> >
> >
> > --
> > --
> > Dennis Clarke
> > RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
> > UNIX and Linux spoken
> >
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