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Banana Pi F3 ArchLinux

Arch Linux RISC-V image rootfs.ext4 for Banana Pi F3 with SpacemiT X60/K1.

What have it done?

• Copy drivers
  • /lib/dri
    • pvr_dri.so
    • spacemit_dri.so -> pvr_dri.so
  • /lib/firmware
  • /lib/modules
• Network configuration
  • /etc/systemd/network/default.network

Felix Yan's wiki about archriscv

Flash to BPi-F3

Prepare

Dependencies

Install fastboot, zstd.

$ dnf install fastboot zstd # For Fedora, CentOS, RHEL etc.
$ pacman -S   fastboot zstd # For ArchLinux

Flash tool

Download flash tool from SpacemiT.

Unzip and run the AppImage with option --appimage-extract.

Copy squashfs-root/resources/app/flashserver to one of the $PATH.

$ unzip titantools_for_linux-latest.zip
$ chmod +x titantools_for_linux-1.0.23beta.AppImage
$ ./titantools_for_linux-1.0.23beta.AppImage --appimage-extract
$ cp -p ./squashfs-root/resources/app/flashserver ~/.local/bin/

ROM

Download ROM from Banana Pi: bianbu-23.10-nas-k1-v1.0rc1-release-20240429192450.zip

It looks like:

.
├── bootfs.ext4
├── env.bin
├── factory
│   ├── bootinfo_emmc.bin
│   ├── bootinfo_sd.bin
│   ├── bootinfo_spinand.bin
│   ├── bootinfo_spinor.bin
│   └── FSBL.bin
├── fastboot.yaml
├── fw_dynamic.itb
├── genimage.cfg
├── partition_2M.json
├── partition_flash.json
├── partition_universal.json
├── rootfs.ext4 <-- To be replaced.
└── u-boot.itb

Connect to the board

Enter flash mode: press and hold FDL, press RST on the board.

Connect USB port on the board to your computer. It will show as a DFU device, and turn to U-Boot USB download gadget while flashing.

$ lsusb
Bus 001 Device 009: ID 361c:1001 U-Boot USB download gadget

Flash

Download the ArchLinux rootfs image can be found in releases.

$ zstd -d archriscv-2024-03-30.img.zst    # Decompress
$ cp archriscv-2024-03-30.img rootfs.ext4 # Replace rootfs.ext4

Run flashserver under the ROM directory.

$ flashserver
 _____  _  _                  _____  _              _                 
|_   _|(_)| |_   __ _  _ __  |  ___|| |  __ _  ___ | |__    ___  _ __ 
  | |  | || __| / _` || '_ \ | |_   | | / _` |/ __|| '_ \  / _ \| '__|
  | |  | || |_ | (_| || | | ||  _|  | || (_| |\__ \| | | ||  __/| |   
  |_|  |_| \__| \__,_||_| |_||_|    |_| \__,_||___/|_| |_| \___||_|   
                                                                      
__     __  _     _  _____  _            _          
\ \   / / / |   / ||___  || |__    ___ | |_   __ _ 
 \ \ / /  | |   | |   / / | '_ \  / _ \| __| / _` |
  \ V /   | | _ | |  / /  | |_) ||  __/| |_ | (_| |
   \_/    |_|(_)|_| /_/   |_.__/  \___| \__| \__,_|
                                                   

--- Available ports:
---  1: 1-1-3                'fastboot VID:PID=0x361c:0x1001 SER=dfu-device'
--- Enter port index or full name: 1
---》开始刷机
执行 fastboot getvar version-brom
1.0
刷机总进度: 2%:  ▓
执行 fastboot stage factory/FSBL.bin
刷机总进度: 4%:  ▓▓
002afa0
执行 fastboot continue
刷机总进度: 6%:  ▓▓▓
执行 fastboot stage u-boot.itb
reconnect fastboot device...
刷机总进度: 8%:  ▓▓▓▓
刷机总进度: 9%:  ▓▓▓▓
执行 fastboot continue
刷机总进度: 11%:  ▓▓▓▓▓
执行 fastboot getvar mtd-size
reconnect fastboot device...
NULL
刷机总进度: 13%:  ▓▓▓▓▓▓
执行 fastboot getvar blk-size
universal
刷机总进度: 15%:  ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓
开始匹配分区表: ['partition_{size0}.json', 'partition_{size1}.json']
匹配原始分区表: partition_universal.json
分区表匹配结果为: partition_universal.json
执行 fastboot flash gpt partition_universal.json
parse gpt/mtd table okay
执行 fastboot flash bootinfo bootinfo_sd.bin
执行 fastboot flash fsbl FSBL.bin
执行 fastboot flash env env.bin
执行 fastboot flash opensbi fw_dynamic.itb
执行 fastboot flash uboot u-boot.itb
执行 fastboot flash bootfs bootfs.ext4
生成sparse格式文件, split>>127
start split sparse file in 2024-06-03 15:51:57
bytesIo: Wrote 65535 blocks in 10 sparse chunks (12% compression)
split sparse file over, begin download in 2024-06-03 15:51:58

... ... ...

刷机总进度: 99%:  ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓
download over in  2024-06-03 15:57:42
bytesIo: Wrote 6517 blocks in 2 sparse chunks (100% compression)
split sparse file over, begin download in 2024-06-03 15:57:42
download over in  2024-06-03 15:57:43
---》刷机成功!
<-------------刷机结束---------------->

Enjoy!

Reset BPi-F3. ArchLinux will boot!

By Felix Yan, the password of root is archriscv.

Start services

Network

$ systemctl enable --now systemd-networkd

Time Sync

$ systemctl enable --now systemd-timesyncd

Note

SSL connections only work with the correct time.

Install packages

$ pacman -Syu
$ pacman -S nano openssh openssl

Modify mirror list

$ nano /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

##
## Arch Linux RISC-V repository mirrorlist
##

## Worldwide
#Server = https://riscv.mirror.pkgbuild.com/repo/$repo

## Canada
#Server = https://archriscv.felixc.at/repo/$repo

## China
Server = https://mirror.iscas.ac.cn/archriscv/repo/$repo
#Server = https://mirrors.sustech.edu.cn/archriscv/repo/$repo
#Server = https://mirror.nju.edu.cn/archriscv/repo/$repo
#Server = https://mirrors.wsyu.edu.cn/archriscv/repo/$repo

## Finland
#Server = https://mirrors.felixc.at/archriscv/repo/$repo

Desktop Environment

KDE

$ pacman -S icu plasma-desktop plasma-nm plasma-pa plasma-workspace plasma-workspace-wallpapers xdg-desktop-portal-kde dolphin kate konsole okular spectacle

$ dbus-run-session startplasma-wayland

Xfce4

$ pacman -S icu xfce4 xorg

$ dbus-run-session startxfce4

GNOME

Unavailable because libmutter is missing.