This repository contains all the files needed to successfully boot RISC-V Linux and run RISC-V programs on a RISC-V RV64IMA core that is placed inside the Zynq FPGA device of your Parallellla board.
All Parallella editions are supported:
- Desktop
- Microserver
- Embedded
- Kickstarter.
For more information visit the Parallella RISC-V GSoC 2016 project repository
Place the correct prebuilt boot files on the boot partition of your Parallella's SD card. Depending on
your Parallella edition you must copy them from one of the following boot folders:
- Parallella Desktop / MicroServer Edition (Zynq 7010) -
boot.7010.rv64ima - Parallella Embedded / Kickstarter Edition (Zynq 7020) -
boot.7020.rv64ima
After copying everything to your boot partition, you should have the following files:
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| devicetree.dtb | Device Tree Blob |
| parallella.bit.bin | Parallella Base plus RISC-V RV64IMA Core |
| uImage | Zynq ARM Linux kernel |
You can also use the Zynq ARM Linux kernel (uImage) from the Parallella E-SDK if you wish (only tested v2016.3.1).
If you want to boot RISC-V Linux or run a simple baremetal program you must copy the riscv folder's
conents somewhere in your SD card's root filesystem, e.g in a new /home/parallella/riscv folder.
This can be done either by placing the SD card on your workstation and copying the files there or later after the board is booted.
- File List
After copying everything to your riscv folder on the root partition, you should have the following files:
| File | Description |
|---|---|
| riscv/fesvr | Frontend Server Application for HTIF transfers |
| riscv/libfesvr.so | Frontend Server Shared Library |
| riscv/pk | Proxy Kernel to load and support baremetal programs |
| riscv/hello | Hello World Program |
| riscv/bbl | Berkeley Boot Loader to boot and support RISC-V Linux |
| riscv/vmlinux | RISC-V Linux Kernel |
| riscv/root.bin.tar.gz | RISC-V Linux Root Filesystem Image Archive (Linaro 15.04) |
- Copying software
To copy the built files to an already booted board you can run the following (assuming your Parallella
can be reached inside your network with the parallella host. You can replace this with parallella@ip
where ip is the IP address of Parallella in your local network):
scp riscv/fesvr parallella@parallella:~/riscv
scp riscv/libfesvr.so parallella@parallella:~/riscv
scp riscv/pk parallella@parallella:~/riscv
scp riscv/hello parallella@parallella:~/riscv
scp riscv/bbl parallella@parallella:~/riscv
scp riscv/vmlinux parallella@parallella:~/riscv
scp riscv/root.bin.tar.gz parallella@parallella:~/riscv- Extra steps needed
The last file (root.bin.tar.gz) must be decompressed before using it to boot RISC-V Linux:
parallella@parallella:~/riscv/$ tar xzf root.bin.tar.gzThe root filesystem archive besides taking less space, it is also useful as a backup in case you corrupt the root filesystem if you forget to shutdown the RISC-V Linux properly before powering off your board.
For the frontend server (fesvr) don't forget to copy the shared library libfesvr.so to /usr/local/lib on your
board and running sudo ldconfig to update the library cache.
parallella@parallella:~/riscv/$ sudo cp libfesvr.so /usr/local/lib/
parallella@parallella:~/riscv/$ sudo ldconfig- Running baremetal programs
fesvr and pk can be used to load RISC-V baremetal programs like this:
parallella@parallella:~/$ sudo ./fesvr pk hello
Hello World!- Booting RISC-V Linux
fesvr and bbl can be used to boot RISC-V Linux and perform simple tasks like shown below:
parallella@parallella:~/$ sudo ./fesvr +disk=root.bin bbl vmlinux
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INSTRUCTION SETS WANT TO BE FREE
[ 0.000000] Linux version 4.1.17-g174f395-dirty (lupo@gene) (gcc version 5.3.0 (GCC) ) #9 Mon Jul 25 18:18:14 EEST 2016
[ 0.000000] Available physical memory: 1022MB
[ 0.000000] Physical memory usage limited to 384MB
[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
[ 0.000000] Normal [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x00000000181fffff]
[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x00000000181fffff]
[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000000200000-0x00000000181fffff]
[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists in Zone order, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 96960
[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: root=/dev/htifblk0 mem=384M
[ 0.000000] PID hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
[ 0.000000] Sorting __ex_table...
[ 0.000000] Memory: 384352K/393216K available (1810K kernel code, 92K rwdata, 396K rodata, 64K init, 210K bss, 8864K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
[ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1
[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS:2
[ 0.000000] clocksource riscv_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 191126044627 ns
[ 0.150000] Calibrating delay using timer specific routine.. 20.02 BogoMIPS (lpj=100104)
[ 0.150000] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301
[ 0.150000] Mount-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.150000] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.150000] devtmpfs: initialized
[ 0.150000] clocksource jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns
[ 0.150000] NET: Registered protocol family 16
[ 0.150000] Switched to clocksource riscv_clocksource
[ 0.150000] NET: Registered protocol family 2
[ 0.150000] TCP established hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.150000] TCP bind hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes)
[ 0.150000] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 4096 bind 4096)
[ 0.150000] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.150000] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes)
[ 0.150000] NET: Registered protocol family 1
[ 0.150000] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 6144 bytes)
[ 0.150000] io scheduler noop registered
[ 0.150000] io scheduler cfq registered (default)
[ 0.180000] htifcon htif1: detected console
[ 0.180000] console [htifcon0] enabled
[ 0.180000] htifblk htif2: detected disk
[ 0.180000] htifblk htif2: added htifblk0
[ 0.180000] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 254:0.
[ 0.180000] devtmpfs: mounted
[ 0.180000] Freeing unused kernel memory: 64K (ffffffff80000000 - ffffffff80010000)
INIT: version 2.88 booting
[ 0.430000] random: dd urandom read with 23 bits of entropy available
hwclock: can't open '/dev/misc/rtc': No such file or directory
Sun Jul 17 01:37:12 UTC 2016
hwclock: can't open '/dev/misc/rtc': No such file or directory
INIT: Entering runlevel: 5
Configuring network interfaces... ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device
hwclock: can't open '/dev/misc/rtc': No such file or directory
Starting syslogd/klogd: done
Poky (Yocto Project Reference Distro) 2.0+snapshot-20160717 riscv64 /dev/ttyHTIF0
riscv64 login: root
root@riscv64:~# ls -al /
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 Jul 17 01:37 .
drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 1024 Jul 17 01:37 ..
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Jul 17 01:37 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 17 01:17 boot
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 10720 Jul 17 01:37 dev
drwxr-xr-x 21 root root 1024 Jan 1 1970 etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jul 17 01:37 home
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 2048 Jul 17 01:37 lib
drwx------ 2 root root 12288 Jul 17 01:37 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 17 01:17 media
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 17 01:17 mnt
dr-xr-xr-x 29 root root 0 Jan 1 1970 proc
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 160 Jul 17 01:37 run
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 17 01:37 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jul 17 01:17 sys
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 1024 Jul 17 01:17 tmp
drwxr-xr-x 9 root root 1024 Jul 17 01:34 usr
drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 1024 Jul 17 01:34 var
root@riscv64:~# uname -a
Linux riscv64 4.1.17-g174f395-dirty #9 Mon Jul 25 18:18:14 EEST 2016 riscv GNU/Linux
root@riscv64:~# shutdown -h now
INIT: Switching to runlevel: 0
INIT: Sending processes the TERM signal
root@riscv64:~# logout
hwclock: can't open '/dev/misc/rtc': No such file or directory
Stopping syslogd/klogd: stopped syslogd (pid 142)
stopped klogd (pid 141)
done
Deconfiguring network interfaces... ifdown: interface eth0 not configured
done.
Sending all processes the TERM signal...
Unmounting remote filesystems...
Deactivating swap...
Unmounting local filesystems...
[4.730000] reboot: Power down
parallella@parallella:~/$Congratulations, you now have a working RISC-V RV64 core running RISC-V Linux on your Parallella!
Parallella RISC-V GSoC 2016 Project
- Elias Kouskoumvekakis (Blog)
- Olof Kindgren (FOSSi Foundation)
- Andreas Olofsson (Adapteva)