Create an image of Arch Linux to write onto a SD flash card or eMMC flash chip for the Star64 SBC. Try to do that using software that is typically available and keeping the product as close to upstream as possible. U-Boot is built for Starfive's VisionFive 2 board and the device tree is also for the VisionFive 2. The Star64 is not 100% compatible. The device tree could be updated and the kernel needs patching!
Run make to create an image file and use dd, Etcher, or so to install it.
Supplying a block device as as DEV_OR_IMG (e.g. make "DEV_OR_IMG=/dev/mmcblkX") will cause the image to be written directly to the block device.
This allows the root partition to use all available space, the amount of writes is reduced to a minimum because gaps don't have to be filled, and it's quicker.
- util-linux
- subuid/subgid entries for the user running
make- only the first one is used
- range needs to be big enough to hold all files from the base file system
- 1000 should be enough but best be generous if possible (e.g. 10000) because tar doesn't stop (it only warns)
- qemu-riscv64-static and the respective binfmt rules (to allow running riscv64 programs in the chroot)
- enough RAM to hold the rootfs
- riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc
- U-Boot SPL with OpenSBI
- U-Boot payload (reads extlinux.conf)
- extlinux.conf generated by (packaged) libalpm hook
- Felix Yan's Arch Linux port for RISC-V (https://archriscv.felixc.at/)
The filesystem can be altered by adding customization scripts in rootfs-hook.d/.
Nothing stops you from calling sh from there and doing stuff interactively.
Remember to add the executable bit.
.env.rootfs-customization can be used to pass environment variables to the hooks.
The pre-existing scripts use these:
EDITOR
IMG_HOSTNAME
ROOT_PW
NO_ROOT_PW
ROOT_SSH_KEY
INSTALL_OPENSSH
KEEP_SSH_KBD_PW
- method to install tow-boot or EDK2 XSPI NOR
- makes this repo obsolete
- boot using EFI