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Which board to support?
Yleisajattelija:
Maintainer for VSRVES01 CAT Board needed?
https://www.vlsi.fi/en/support/evaluationboards/vsrves01catboard.html
Mental support:
https://www.idealist.org/en
Yleisajattelija:
If there is no volunteers, I can try...
I have been professional embedded coder (ASM+C), but it was 30 years ago (I have been RF-designer and R&D project manager for most of my career), so it will take some time to start deep coding for port. I have tried Guruplug plus few years ago and tried to install armel Debian by U-boot (I even got some help from Martin Michlmayr for that, but installer didn't succeed for some reason), so I have some experience of problems.
Now I have studied kernel, RISC-V, SOC and board internals for few weeks, and now is time to connect plug and try bootloader.
I did contact board manufacturer for support, I think it is mandatory to succeed.
Yleisajattelija:
I got an answer fron VLSI-Solution for few important issues:
"VSRVES01 doesn't have ROM on RISC-V side so it doesn't know how to boot. The booting is done through VSDSP with RvParam and DDRLoad."
Actually this is ideal situation for tc port, a "raw" HW, support from SOC/Board manufacturer and open DT/boot proces-spesification.
Yleisajattelija:
Toolchain:
https://github.com/riscv-collab/riscv-gnu-toolchain
Is there all, or something missing to compile kernel + tc?
gadget42:
hat-tip @CNK for referencing:
https://wiki.debian.org/RISC-V
especially intriguing(from the above weblink):
--- Quote ---There are different versions of the instruction set for 32, 64 and 128 bits; operating as little-endian by default.
--- End quote ---
which led to:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/128-bit_computing
definitely thought-provoking, especially the "other uses" section(UUID, IPv6, ZFS,key-sizes, etc)
also did visit:
https://www.howtogeek.com/858423/why-dont-we-have-128-bit-computers-yet/
which led to:
https://www.howtogeek.com/why-i-bought-a-160-mac-mini-instead-of-a-raspberry-pi/
and naturally back to a forum search for "mac mini"...ha!
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,11323.0.html
https://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,13445.0.html
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