Image Builder for Archlinux on an Allwinner D1 / Sipeed Lichee RV

These scripts compile, copy, bake, unpack and flash a ready to use RISC-V Archlinux.
With "ready to use" i mean that it boots, you still need to configure everything!

Special thanks to smaeul for all their work!

Find a precompiled image under the Actions artifacts. The image has no configuration or whatsoever!

Also have a look at the forks that have emerged over time or similar projects like a make file based approch.

Starfive Vision 2

There are multiple sources for an Archlinux image:

• https://forum.rvspace.org/t/arch-linux-image-for-visionfive-2/1459
• https://github.com/thefossguy/archlinux-visionfive2

Components

• mainline OpenSBI
• U-Boot based on https://github.com/smaeul/u-boot.git
• mainline kernel
• WiFi driver (rtl8723ds) based on https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723ds
• RootFS based on https://archriscv.felixc.at (root password is sifive archriscv)

How to build

1. Install requirements: pacman -Sy riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc swig cpio python3 python-setuptools base-devel bc
   1. If you want to chroot into the RISC-V image, you also need arch-install-scripts qemu-user-static qemu-user-static-binfmt
2. Edit consts.sh to your needs. For example, you may want to select a different DTB for a different board variant.
3. Run 1_compile.sh which compiles everything into the output folder.
4. Run 2_create_sd.sh /dev/<device> to flash everything on the SD card.
5. Configure your Archlinux 🚀

Using loop image file instead of a SD card

Simply loop it using sudo losetup -f -P <file> and then use /dev/loopX as the target device.

Notes

The second script requires arch-install-scripts, qemu-user-static-bin (AUR) and binfmt-qemu-static (AUR) for an architectural chroot. If you don't want to use/do this, change USE_CHROOT to 0 in consts.sh.
Keep in mind, that this is just a extracted rootfs with no configuration. You probably want to update the system, install an editor and take care of network access/ssh

Some commits are pinned, this means that in the future this script might stop working since often a git HEAD is checked out. This is intentional.

The second script uses sudo for root access. Like any random script from a random stranger from the internet, have a look at the code first and use at own risk!

Things are rebuild whenever the corresponding output/<file> is missing. For example, the kernel is rebuilt when there is no Image file.

Status

25.07.2023

• forgot to keep this up to date...
• mainline kernel fully supports the D1
• kernel updated to 6.4 (mainline)
• OpenSBI updated to 1.3

4.11.2022

• WiFi is working again

3.11.2022

• updated U-Boot and remove boot0 (handled by U-Boot)
• updated kernel to 6.1.0-rc3
  • THIS BRAKES BUILT-IN WIFI

13.09.2022

• kernel is back at 5.18-rc1 due to being more reliable

14.06.2022

• kernel updated to 5.19-rc1
• added initramfs support (untested)
• added extlinux support

22.04.2022

• kernel includes modules for USB LAN adapter
• swap is enabled

09.04.2022

• HDMI, tested with LXDE/LXDM

07.04.2022

• WiFi \o/

06.04.2022

• Kernel is based on 5.18-rc1
• WiFi driver fails to build (linking error :feelsbadman:)
• Both kernel and U-Boot are using nezha_defconfig since i found them more reliable
  • With the licheerv_linux_defconfig from here the kernel fails to find the sd card (or its partitions? not sure what exactly goes wrong)
• HDMI is not working (at least on the one screen i've tested it)

Problems

06.04.2022

• no WiFi!
• No HDMI (though, i'm unsure about the state of HDMI support in general)