On Mon, Dec 16, 2024 at 05:05:09PM +0100, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote: > Efraim Flashner writes: > > > On Sat, Dec 14, 2024 at 05:39:00PM -0800, R wrote: > >> It would be nice to have a fully libre distro for riscv cpus. > > > > I agree! > > > > My initial look into it suggested that, like armhf and aarch64, we'd > > need a separate image for each riscv64 board. I eventually found this¹ > > page for installing Debian on the StarFive VisionFive1 board (limited > > run, poorly supported upstream), which suggested that the vendor u-boot > > image should be able to load an EFI image and boot that way. > > > > Playing with this is high on my todo list. > > > > ¹ https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/StarFive/VisionFiveV1 > > Guix too has such a Visionfive image but for V2. It works, although > last time `guix pull` failed for me, but I believe pull randomly > succeeds on some days. > > https://guix.gnu.org/download/latest/ I should try that image again on my visionfive2. The last time I tried it the board wasn't stable, but it might've been the SDcard I was using. The last round of power blips we had I corrupted the SDcard in my unmatched board so I had to rebuild it, but now I can actually run guix deploy to update it. -- Efraim Flashner אפרים פלשנר GPG key = A28B F40C 3E55 1372 662D 14F7 41AA E7DC CA3D 8351 Confidentiality cannot be guaranteed on emails sent or received unencrypted