# nuclei-linux-sdk **Repository Path**: Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk ## Basic Information - **Project Name**: nuclei-linux-sdk - **Description**: Nuclei RISC-V Linux Software Development Kit - **Primary Language**: C - **License**: Apache-2.0 - **Default Branch**: dev_nuclei_next - **Homepage**: None - **GVP Project**: No ## Statistics - **Stars**: 21 - **Forks**: 8 - **Created**: 2020-08-03 - **Last Updated**: 2025-06-06 ## Categories & Tags **Categories**: risc-v **Tags**: None ## README # Nuclei Linux SDK [![Build and Test Linux SDK](https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/actions/workflows/build.yml/badge.svg?branch=dev_nuclei_next)](https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/actions/workflows/build.yml) [![Build Linux SDK Docker Image](https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/actions/workflows/docker.yml/badge.svg?branch=dev_nuclei_next)](https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/actions/workflows/docker.yml) Please check [about each branch feature](https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/issues/2) to learn which branch you should choose. ## Tested Configurations ### Docker If you want to use it in docker image, please follow steps below: > Not tested for upload freeloader, need USB connection. See [How to evaluate Nuclei Linux SDK in docker](https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/issues/8) ### Ubuntu 20.04 x86_64 host - Status: Working - Build dependencies - packages: see [apt.txt](.github/apt.txt) - python pip packages: [pipreq.txt](.github/pipreq.txt) - Get prebuilt qemu and openocd 2023.10 from [Nuclei Development Tools](https://nucleisys.com/download.php#tools) - Setup qemu and openocd and add it into **PATH** - mtools version >= 4.0.24 ## Build Instructions ### Install Dependencies Install the software dependencies required by this SDK using command: ~~~shell sudo xargs apt-get install -y < .github/apt.txt sudo pip3 install -r .github/pipreq.txt ~~~ ### Install Nuclei Tools Download prebuilt 64bit `openocd` tool and `qemu` from [Nuclei Development Tools](https://nucleisys.com/download.php#tools), and extract it into your PC, and then setup **PATH** using this command: > \>= 2023.10 release is required. You can install Nuclei Studio, which contains prebuilt openocd/qemu ~~~shell # Make sure you changed /path/to/openocd/bin and /path/to/qemu/bin to the real path of your PC export PATH=/path/to/openocd/bin:/path/to/qemu/bin:$PATH # Check path is set correctly which openocd qemu-system-riscv64 ~~~ ### Fix nuclei riscv gdb run issue You may meet with this issue: `error while loading shared libraries: libgmp.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory` ~~~ # see issue https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/issues/5 sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libgmp.so.3 ~~~ If you met other strange issues not documented in this doc, please check [Linux SDK Issues](https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/issues), if the existing issues not address your problem, please [create a new issue](https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/issues/new) ### Clone Repo > **Gitee Mirror not longer work**, since linux mirror repo is blocked by gitee, see https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/issues/10#issuecomment-1728920670 * Checkout this repository using `git`. > Change the below `dev_nuclei_next` to your desired branch. - If you have good network access to github, you can clone this repo using command `git clone -b dev_nuclei_next https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk` - Otherwise, you can try methods provided https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/issues/10 - If https is not stable, you can try ssh, please search about git clone ssh/https difference * Then you will need to checkout all of the linked submodules using: ~~~shell cd nuclei-linux-sdk # the following command might fail due to network connection issue # you can clone less code with --depth=1 # you can also try some github mirror tech, search in baidu/google # if still not working, you can try our prepared source code(maybe out of date), see https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/issues/4 git submodule update --recursive --init # if you want to clone less source code to speed up or make clone stable, please add extra --depth=1 # --depth=1 is used to do shallow clone, see https://git-scm.com/docs/git-submodule#Documentation/git-submodule.txt---depth # git submodule update --init --depth=1 ~~~ * To make sure you have checked out clean source code, you need to run `git status` command, and get expected output as below: ~~~ On branch dev_nuclei_next Your branch is up to date with 'origin/dev_nuclei_next'. nothing to commit, working tree clean ~~~ * If you have trouble in get clean working tree, you can try command `git submodule update --recursive --init --depth=1` again, you might need to retry several times depending on your network access speed. * If you still have issues, please check FAQ sections at the bottom of this README.md This will take some time and require around 2GB of disk space. Some modules may fail because certain dependencies don't have the best git hosting. The only solution is to wait and try again later (or ask someone for a copy of that source repository). ### Update source code Update source code if there are new commits in this repo. Assume currently you are in `dev_nuclei_next` branch, and the working tree is clean. Then you run the following command to update this repo: ~~~shell # Pull lastest source code and rebase your local commits onto it git pull --rebase origin dev_nuclei_next # Update git submodules git submodule update # Check workspace status to see whether it is clean git status ~~~ ### Switch branch See https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/issues/10 ## Show Help You can run `make help` to show help message about how to use this Nuclei Linux SDK. But if you want to change and adapt for your SoC, you need to understand the build system in Makefile. ## Nuclei Linux SDK Integration Here are the version numbers of sub projects used in Nuclei Linux SDK. * Linux 5.10 * Uboot v2021.01 * OpenSBI v0.9 * Buildroot 2020.11.2 Our changes to support Nuclei Eval SoC are adapted based on above version. ## Modify Build Configuration You can choose different core configuration by modify the `CORE ?= ux900fd` line in `Makefile`. We support four configurations for **CORE**, choose the right core according to your configuration: * `ux600` or `ux900`: rv64imac RISC-V CORE configuration without FPU. * `ux600fd` or `ux900fd`: rv64imafdc RISC-V CORE configuration with FPU. You can choose different SoC by modify `SOC ?= evalsoc` line in `Makefile`. * `demosoc`: **Deprecated**, the demostration SoC from nuclei. * `evalsoc`: The next generation of the `demosoc`, we call it `evalsoc`, when your cpu has `iregion` feature, please use this one * you can add your SoC support by adding configuration in `conf/$SOC` folder refer to `conf/evalsoc` > You can check the dts difference for evalsoc and demosoc, for more details, need to check the Nuclei RISC-V CPU ISA spec. > Now evalsoc default cpu/peripheral frequency change from 16M to 100MHz You can choose different boot mode by modify the `BOOT_MODE ?= sd` line in `Makefile`. * `sd`: boot from flash + sdcard, extra SDCard is required(kernel, rootfs, dtb placed in it) * `flash`: boot from flash only, flash will contain images placed in sdcard of sd boot mode, at least 8M flash is required, current onboard mcu-flash of DDR200T is only 4M, so this feature is not ready for it. Please modify the `Makefile` to your correct core configuration before build any source code. For each SoC, in `conf/$SOC/`, it contains a `build.mk` you can specify qemu, timer/cpu/peripheral hz. * **TIMER_HZ**: implementation dependent, you can change timer frequency to different value to overwrite the one in dts. * **CPU_HZ**: implementation dependent, you can change cpu frequency to different value to overwrite the one in dts. * **PERIPH_HZ**: implementation dependent, you can change peripheral frequency to different value to overwrite the one in dts. * **SIMULATION**: implementation dependent, if SIMULATION=1, only the peripherals can be simulated in rtl will be present in dts, for demosoc/evalsoc, only uart will be present, qspi will not. > `TIMER_HZ/CPU_HZ/PERIPH_HZ` are all implementation dependent, it required your SoC dts implement this feature, currently > demosoc/evalsoc all support this. For each SoC, in `conf/$SOC`, it also contains a `freeloader.mk`, it is used to configure freeloader feature to set cpu configuration when bring up, such as configure cache, tlb, smp feature, for details, please refer to freeloader source code. * **Deprecated**: If you want to compile and run using simulator *xl-spike*, please check steps mentioned in [Booting Linux on Nuclei xl-spike](#Booting-Linux-on-Nuclei-xl-spike) * If you want to compile and run using FPGA evaluation board, please check steps mentioned in [Booting Linux on Nuclei FPGA Evaluation Board](#Booting-Linux-on-Nuclei-FPGA-Evaluation-Board) ## Booting Linux on Nuclei xl-spike **Note**: `xl_spike` tool should be installed and added into **PATH** in advance. Contact with our sales via email **contact@nucleisys.com** to get `xl_spike` tools. > This feature is **deprecated** now, please use Nuclei Qemu. ### Run on xl_spike If you have run `make bootimages` command before, please make sure you run `make presim` to prepare build environment for running linux in simulation. When toolchain steps are finished, then, you can build buildroot, linux and opensbi, and run opensbi with linux payload on xlspike by running `make sim`. Here is sample output running in xl_spike: > Log is not up to date, and may not working. ~~~ xl_spike --isa=rv64imac /home/hqfang/workspace/software/nuclei-linux-sdk/work/demosoc/opensbi/platform/nuclei/demosoc/firmware/fw_payload.elf rv64 file call xl_spike_t construct function warning: tohost and fromhost symbols not in ELF; can't communicate with target UART: UART: OpenSBI v0.9 UART: ____ _____ ____ _____ UART: / __ \ / ____| _ \_ _| UART: | | | |_ __ ___ _ __ | (___ | |_) || | UART: | | | | '_ \ / _ \ '_ \ \___ \| _ < | | UART: | |__| | |_) | __/ | | |____) | |_) || |_ UART: \____/| .__/ \___|_| |_|_____/|____/_____| UART: | | UART: |_| UART: UART: Platform Name : Nuclei Demo SoC UART: Platform Features : timer,mfdeleg UART: Platform HART Count : 1 UART: Firmware Base : 0xa0000000 UART: Firmware Size : 84 KB UART: Runtime SBI Version : 0.2 UART: UART: Domain0 Name : root UART: Domain0 Boot HART : 0 UART: Domain0 HARTs : 0* UART: Domain0 Region00 : 0x00000000a0000000-0x00000000a001ffff () UART: Domain0 Region01 : 0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff (R,W,X) UART: Domain0 Next Address : 0x00000000a0400000 UART: Domain0 Next Arg1 : 0x00000000a8000000 UART: Domain0 Next Mode : S-mode UART: Domain0 SysReset : yes UART: UART: Boot HART ID : 0 UART: Boot HART Domain : root UART: Boot HART ISA : rv64imacsu UART: Boot HART Features : scounteren,mcounteren,time UART: Boot HART PMP Count : 16 UART: Boot HART PMP Granularity : 4 UART: Boot HART PMP Address Bits: 54 UART: Boot HART MHPM Count : 0 UART: Boot HART MHPM Count : 0 UART: Boot HART MIDELEG : 0x0000000000000222 UART: Boot HART MEDELEG : 0x000000000000b109 UART: [ 0.000000] Linux version 5.10.0+ (hqfang@softserver) (riscv-nuclei-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 9.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.32) #1 Fri Mar 19 14:47:22 CST 2021 UART: [ 0.000000] OF: fdt: Ignoring memory range 0xa0000000 - 0xa0400000 UART: [ 0.000000] earlycon: sbi0 at I/O port 0x0 (options '') UART: [ 0.000000] printk: bootconsole [sbi0] enabled UART: [ 0.000000] efi: UEFI not found. UART: [ 0.000000] Zone ranges: UART: [ 0.000000] DMA32 [mem 0x00000000a0400000-0x00000000afffffff] UART: [ 0.000000] Normal empty UART: [ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node UART: [ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges UART: [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00000000a0400000-0x00000000afffffff] UART: [ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x00000000a0400000-0x00000000afffffff] UART: [ 0.000000] software IO TLB: mapped [mem 0x00000000abc8b000-0x00000000afc8b000] (64MB) UART: [ 0.000000] SBI specification v0.2 detected UART: [ 0.000000] SBI implementation ID=0x1 Version=0x9 UART: [ 0.000000] SBI v0.2 TIME extension detected UART: [ 0.000000] SBI v0.2 IPI extension detected UART: [ 0.000000] SBI v0.2 RFENCE extension detected UART: [ 0.000000] riscv: ISA extensions acim UART: [ 0.000000] riscv: ELF capabilities acim UART: [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 63630 UART: [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: earlycon=sbi UART: [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear) UART: [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes, linear) UART: [ 0.000000] Sorting __ex_table... UART: [ 0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off UART: [ 0.000000] Memory: 172900K/258048K available (2696K kernel code, 2811K rwdata, 2048K rodata, 128K init, 280K bss, 85148K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) UART: [ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=1, Nodes=1 UART: [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 64, nr_irqs: 64, preallocated irqs: 0 UART: [ 0.000000] riscv-intc: 64 local interrupts mapped UART: [ 0.000000] plic: interrupt-controller@8000000: mapped 53 interrupts with 1 handlers for 2 contexts. UART: [ 0.000000] random: get_random_bytes called from 0xffffffe000002910 with crng_init=0 UART: [ 0.000000] riscv_timer_init_dt: Registering clocksource cpuid [0] hartid [0] UART: [ 0.000000] clocksource: riscv_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x179dd7f66, max_idle_ns: 28210892933900 ns UART: [ 0.001760] sched_clock: 64 bits at 100kHz, resolution 10000ns, wraps every 35184372085000ns UART: [ 0.022800] printk: console [hvc0] enabled UART: [ 0.022800] printk: console [hvc0] enabled UART: [ 0.041290] printk: bootconsole [sbi0] disabled UART: [ 0.041290] printk: bootconsole [sbi0] disabled UART: [ 0.065580] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 0.20 BogoMIPS (lpj=1000) UART: [ 0.089740] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 UART: [ 0.132740] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear) UART: [ 0.152020] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear) UART: [ 0.324900] EFI services will not be available. UART: [ 0.359550] devtmpfs: initialized UART: [ 0.519290] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns UART: [ 0.543440] futex hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 6144 bytes, linear) UART: [ 0.566050] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem UART: [ 0.620770] NET: Registered protocol family 16 UART: [ 1.452200] clocksource: Switched to clocksource riscv_clocksource UART: [ 1.624680] NET: Registered protocol family 2 UART: [ 1.795650] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 256 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear) UART: [ 1.818280] TCP established hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear) UART: [ 1.849690] TCP bind hash table entries: 2048 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear) UART: [ 1.877280] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 2048 bind 2048) UART: [ 1.904640] UDP hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear) UART: [ 1.925370] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 256 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear) UART: [ 1.970120] NET: Registered protocol family 1 UART: [ 2.043020] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module. UART: [ 2.057540] RPC: Registered udp transport module. UART: [ 2.069730] RPC: Registered tcp transport module. UART: [ 2.082040] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module. UART: [ 9.297610] workingset: timestamp_bits=62 max_order=16 bucket_order=0 UART: [ 10.637960] io scheduler mq-deadline registered UART: [ 10.649850] io scheduler kyber registered UART: [ 18.585530] brd: module loaded UART: [ 19.555270] loop: module loaded UART: [ 19.697090] NET: Registered protocol family 17 UART: [ 19.780090] Freeing unused kernel memory: 128K UART: [ 19.799080] Run /init as init process UART: Starting syslogd: OK UART: Starting klogd: OK UART: Running sysctl: OK UART: Starting mdev... OK UART: modprobe: can't change directory to '/lib/modules': No such file or directory UART: Saving random seed: [ 130.621540] random: dd: uninitialized urandom read (512 bytes read) UART: OK UART: UART: Welcome to Nuclei System Techology nucleisys login: root root UART: Password: nuclei UART: # cat /proc/cpuinfo cat /proc/cpuinfo UART: processor : 0 UART: hart : 0 UART: isa : rv64imac UART: mmu : sv39 UART: UART: # uname -a uname -a UART: Linux nucleisys 5.10.0+ #1 Fri Mar 19 14:47:22 CST 2021 riscv64 GNU/Linux UART: # ls / ls / UART: bin init linuxrc opt run tmp UART: dev lib media proc sbin usr UART: etc lib64 mnt root sys var UART: # ~~~ If you want to remove the login, and directly enter to bash, please check [**Known issues and FAQ**](#Known-issues-and-FAQs). ## Booting Linux on Nuclei QEMU > From 2023.06, this branch will no longer work with Nuclei QEMU 2022.12 release, please take a try with Nuclei Qemu 2023.10 release. **Note**: `qemu-system-riscv64` tool should be installed and added into **PATH** in advance. When the required changes has been done, then you can run `make run_qemu` to run riscv linux on Nuclei QEMU, here are the sample output. > You can check latest output in github action https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/actions/workflows/build.yml?query=branch%3Adev_nuclei_next > This output may be out of date. ~~~ Run on qemu for simulation qemu-system-riscv64 -M nuclei_evalsoc,download=flashxip -smp 8 -m 2G -cpu nuclei-ux900fd,ext= -bios /Local/hqfang/workspace/software/nuclei-linux-sdk/work/evalsoc/freeloader/freeloader.elf -nographic -drive file=/Local/hqfang/workspace/software/nuclei-linux-sdk/work/evalsoc/disk.img,if=sd,format=raw OpenSBI v0.9 ____ _____ ____ _____ / __ \ / ____| _ \_ _| | | | |_ __ ___ _ __ | (___ | |_) || | | | | | '_ \ / _ \ '_ \ \___ \| _ < | | | |__| | |_) | __/ | | |____) | |_) || |_ \____/| .__/ \___|_| |_|_____/|____/_____| | | |_| Platform Name : Nuclei Evaluation SoC Platform Features : timer,mfdeleg Platform HART Count : 8 Firmware Base : 0xa0000000 Firmware Size : 156 KB Runtime SBI Version : 0.2 Domain0 Name : root Domain0 Boot HART : 6 Domain0 HARTs : 0*,1*,2*,3*,4*,5*,6*,7* Domain0 Region00 : 0x00000000a0000000-0x00000000a003ffff () Domain0 Region01 : 0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff (R,W,X) Domain0 Next Address : 0x00000000a0200000 Domain0 Next Arg1 : 0x00000000a8000000 Domain0 Next Mode : S-mode Domain0 SysReset : yes Boot HART ID : 6 Boot HART Domain : root Boot HART ISA : rv64imafdcsu Boot HART Features : scounteren,mcounteren,time Boot HART PMP Count : 16 Boot HART PMP Granularity : 4 Boot HART PMP Address Bits: 54 Boot HART MHPM Count : 0 Boot HART MHPM Count : 0 Boot HART MIDELEG : 0x0000000000000222 Boot HART MEDELEG : 0x000000000000b109 U-Boot 2021.01-00021-g7e7c388fc6 (Nov 16 2023 - 16:06:13 +0800) CPU: rv64imafdc Model: nuclei,evalsoc DRAM: 1.5 GiB Board: Initialized MMC: Nuclei SPI version 0x0 spi@10034000:mmc@0: 0 In: serial@10013000 Out: serial@10013000 Err: serial@10013000 Net: No ethernet found. Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot.scr 725 bytes read in 22 ms (31.3 KiB/s) ## Executing script at a0200000 Boot images located in . Loading kernel: ./uImage.lz4 4035022 bytes read in 9962 ms (395.5 KiB/s) Loading ramdisk: ./uInitrd.lz4 6260962 bytes read in 15372 ms (397.5 KiB/s) Loading dtb: ./kernel.dtb 4677 bytes read in 36 ms (126 KiB/s) Starts booting from SD ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at a3000000 ... Image Name: Linux Image Type: RISC-V Linux Kernel Image (lz4 compressed) Data Size: 4034958 Bytes = 3.8 MiB Load Address: a0400000 Entry Point: a0400000 Verifying Checksum ... OK ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at a8300000 ... Image Name: Initrd Image Type: RISC-V Linux RAMDisk Image (lz4 compressed) Data Size: 6260898 Bytes = 6 MiB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK ## Flattened Device Tree blob at a8000000 Booting using the fdt blob at 0xa8000000 Uncompressing Kernel Image Using Device Tree in place at 00000000a8000000, end 00000000a8004244 Starting kernel ... [ 0.000000] Linux version 5.10.196+ (hqfang@whss5.corp.nucleisys.com) (riscv-nuclei-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 10.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.36.1) #1 SMP Thu Nov 16 15:59:29 CST 2023 [ 0.000000] OF: fdt: Ignoring memory range 0xa0000000 - 0xa0400000 [ 0.000000] Machine model: nuclei,evalsoc [ 0.000000] earlycon: sbi0 at I/O port 0x0 (options '') [ 0.000000] printk: bootconsole [sbi0] enabled [ 0.000000] efi: UEFI not found. [ 0.000000] Initial ramdisk at: 0x(____ptrval____) (6262784 bytes) [ 0.000000] Zone ranges: [ 0.000000] DMA32 [mem 0x00000000a0400000-0x00000000fdffffff] [ 0.000000] Normal empty [ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node [ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00000000a0400000-0x00000000fdffffff] [ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x00000000a0400000-0x00000000fdffffff] [ 0.000000] software IO TLB: mapped [mem 0x00000000f8475000-0x00000000fc475000] (64MB) [ 0.000000] SBI specification v0.2 detected [ 0.000000] SBI implementation ID=0x1 Version=0x9 [ 0.000000] SBI v0.2 TIME extension detected [ 0.000000] SBI v0.2 IPI extension detected [ 0.000000] SBI v0.2 RFENCE extension detected [ 0.000000] SBI v0.2 HSM extension detected [ 0.000000] riscv: ISA extensions acdfim [ 0.000000] riscv: ELF capabilities acdfim [ 0.000000] percpu: Embedded 16 pages/cpu s25432 r8192 d31912 u65536 [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 508030 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: earlycon=sbi console=ttyNUC0 [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes, linear) [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes, linear) [ 0.000000] Sorting __ex_table... [ 0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off [ 0.000000] Memory: 1943116K/2060288K available (4737K kernel code, 4114K rwdata, 2048K rodata, 192K init, 333K bss, 117172K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) [ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=8, Nodes=1 [ 0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation. [ 0.000000] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 10 jiffies. [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 64, nr_irqs: 64, preallocated irqs: 0 [ 0.000000] riscv-intc: 64 local interrupts mapped [ 0.000000] plic: interrupt-controller@1c000000: mapped 53 interrupts with 8 handlers for 16 contexts. [ 0.000000] riscv_timer_init_dt: Registering clocksource cpuid [0] hartid [6] [ 0.000000] clocksource: riscv_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x1ef4687b1, max_idle_ns: 112843571739654 ns [ 0.000152] sched_clock: 64 bits at 32kHz, resolution 30517ns, wraps every 70368744171142ns [ 0.005554] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 0.06 BogoMIPS (lpj=327) [ 0.006164] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 [ 0.007659] Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) [ 0.008056] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) [ 0.035339] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation. [ 0.037139] EFI services will not be available. [ 0.038848] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ... [ 0.054565] smp: Brought up 1 node, 8 CPUs [ 0.068145] devtmpfs: initialized [ 0.077972] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns [ 0.079010] futex hash table entries: 2048 (order: 5, 131072 bytes, linear) [ 0.080230] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem [ 0.082885] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ 0.135375] clocksource: Switched to clocksource riscv_clocksource [ 0.145080] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 0.148315] IP idents hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear) [ 0.159118] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 1024 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear) [ 0.159729] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes, linear) [ 0.160308] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear) [ 0.160827] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) [ 0.162322] UDP hash table entries: 1024 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) [ 0.162841] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 1024 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) [ 0.165191] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 0.170776] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module. [ 0.171112] RPC: Registered udp transport module. [ 0.171325] RPC: Registered tcp transport module. [ 0.171569] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module. [ 0.175933] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs... [ 0.458953] Freeing initrd memory: 6108K [ 0.464111] workingset: timestamp_bits=62 max_order=19 bucket_order=0 [ 0.481048] jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc. [ 0.483306] JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536 [ 0.492706] jitterentropy: Initialization failed with host not compliant with requirements: 2 [ 0.493286] NET: Registered protocol family 38 [ 0.493896] io scheduler mq-deadline registered [ 0.494293] io scheduler kyber registered [ 0.617645] 10013000.serial: ttyNUC0 at MMIO 0x10013000 (irq = 1, base_baud = 3125000) is a Nuclei UART/USART [ 0.621459] printk: console [ttyNUC0] enabled [ 0.621459] printk: console [ttyNUC0] enabled [ 0.623016] printk: bootconsole [sbi0] disabled [ 0.623016] printk: bootconsole [sbi0] disabled [ 0.660919] brd: module loaded [ 0.670166] loop: module loaded [ 0.672973] nuclei_spi 10014000.spi: mapped; irq=2, cs=1 [ 0.688415] spi-nor spi0.0: is25wp256 (32768 Kbytes) [ 0.794097] ftl_cs: FTL header not found. [ 0.800598] nuclei_spi 10034000.spi: mapped; irq=3, cs=1 [ 0.848205] mmc_spi spi1.0: SD/MMC host mmc0, no DMA, no WP, no poweroff, cd polling [ 0.851928] ipip: IPv4 and MPLS over IPv4 tunneling driver [ 0.857940] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [ 0.871582] Segment Routing with IPv6 [ 0.872680] sit: IPv6, IPv4 and MPLS over IPv4 tunneling driver [ 0.880401] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 0.918304] Freeing unused kernel memory: 192K [ 0.924316] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable [ 0.925354] mmc0: new SD card on SPI [ 0.928375] mmcblk0: mmc0:0000 QEMU! 1.00 GiB [ 0.958953] Run /init as init process [ 0.961059] mmcblk0: p1 Starting syslogd: OK Starting klogd: OK Running sysctl: OK Starting mdev... OK modprobe: can't change directory to '/lib/modules': No such file or directory Saving random seed: [ 4.833526] random: dd: uninitialized urandom read (32 bytes read) OK Welcome to Nuclei System Technology nucleisys login: root Password: # cat /proc/cpuinfo processor : 0 hart : 6 isa : rv64imafdc mmu : sv39 processor : 1 hart : 0 isa : rv64imafdc mmu : sv39 processor : 2 hart : 1 isa : rv64imafdc mmu : sv39 processor : 3 hart : 2 isa : rv64imafdc mmu : sv39 processor : 4 hart : 3 isa : rv64imafdc mmu : sv39 processor : 5 hart : 4 isa : rv64imafdc mmu : sv39 processor : 6 hart : 5 isa : rv64imafdc mmu : sv39 processor : 7 hart : 7 isa : rv64imafdc mmu : sv39 # uname -a Linux nucleisys 5.10.196+ #1 SMP Thu Nov 16 15:59:29 CST 2023 riscv64 GNU/Linux # mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt/ # ls /mnt/ boot.scr kernel.dtb uImage.lz4 uInitrd.lz4 ~~~ ## Booting Linux on Nuclei FPGA Evaluation Board ### Get Nuclei Eval SoC FPGA Bitstream from Nuclei > Demo SoC is deprecated, please use Eval SoC bitstream from Nuclei. Contact with our sales via email **contact@nucleisys.com** to get FPGA bitstream for Nuclei Eval SoC and get guidance about how to program FPGA bitstream in the board. Nuclei Eval SoC can be configured using Nuclei RISC-V Linux Capable Core such as UX600 and U900/UX900, To learn about Nuclei RISC-V Linux Capable Core, please check: * [UX600 Series 64-Bit High Performance Application Processor](https://nucleisys.com/product/600.php) * [900 Series 32/64-Bit High Performance Processor](https://nucleisys.com/product/900.php) Nuclei FPGA Evaluation Board, DDR200T/KU060/VCU118 are correct hardwares to run linux on it, click [Nuclei FPGA Evaluation Board](https://nucleisys.com/developboard.php#ddr200t) to learn about more. ### Apply changes for your SoC Before compiling this source code, please make sure you have done the following changes. Now we have two version of SoC for customer to evaluate our RISC-V CPU IP, if the bitstream you get from us has the `iregion` feature, you should use `evalsoc`, otherwise choose `demosoc`(deprecated). If there is double float fpu and isa is rv64 in the bitstream supported, you should choose `ux600fd` or `ux900fd`. - Default cpu/periph freq and timer freq are 16MHz and 32768Hz for demosoc. - Default cpu/periph freq and timer freq are 100Mhz and 32768Hz for evalsoc v1, ddr base 0xA0000000. For details SoC information, please check https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/issues/2 If the bitstream you get not matching above settings, please change co-reponsibing `conf//build.mk`'s `TIMER_HZ`/`CPU_HZ`/`PERIPH_HZ`. If you don't change this `build.mk` you can also change the dts files `conf//*.dts` to match the correct frequency. For example, you have get a bitstream which is our ux900 series cpu ip, with double float fpu, and cpu frequency is 100MHz. You should change `SOC` to `evalsoc`, `CORE` to `ux900fd` in [Makefile](Makefile). And change `CPU_HZ` in `conf//build.mk` or **CPUCLK_FREQ** in the `nuclei_rv64imafdc.dts` and `nuclei_rv64imac.dts` in `conf/$SOC/`(`conf/evalsoc` for this case). ### Build Freeloader > Make sure you have network access to outside world, buildroot will download required packages in build steps. *freeloader* is a first stage bootloader which contains *opensbi*, *uboot* and *dtb* binaries, when bootup, it will enable I/D cache and load *opensbi*, *uboot* and *dtb* from onboard norflash to DDR, and then goto entry of *opensbi*. To build *freeloader*, you just need to run `make freeloader` ### Upload Freeloader to FPGA Evaluation Board If you have connected your board to your Linux development environment, and setuped JTAG drivers, then you can run `make upload_freeloader` to upload the *work/$SOC/freeloader/freeloader.elf* to your board. You can also use `riscv-nuclei-elf-gdb` and `openocd` to download this program by yourself, for simple steps, please see [Known issues and FAQs](#Known-issues-and-FAQs). ### Build SDCard Boot Images If **BOOT_MODE** is set to `flash`, then no need to prepare the boot images, just program the **freeloader.elf** to on board flash, but it required at least 8M flash. If you have run `make sim` command before, please make sure you run `make preboot` to prepare build environment for generate boot images. If the freeloader is flashed to the board, then you can prepare the SDCard boot materials, you can run `make bootimages` to generate the boot images to *work/$SOC/boot*, and an zip file called *work/$SOC/boot.zip* , you can extract this *boot.zip* to your SDCard or copy all the files located in *work/$SOC/boot*, make sure the files need to be put **right in the root of SDCard**, then you can insert this SDCard to your SDCard slot(J57) beside the TFT LCD. The contents of *work/$SOC/boot* or *work/$SOC/boot.zip* are as below: * **kernel.dtb** : optional, device tree binary file, this dtb is optional now, since freeloader.elf already contains dtb, we can use dtb inside freeloader.elf, and if you want to use a different device tree for linux kernel, you can change this dtb, and place it in sdcard, otherwise this dtb is not a required file for sdcard. * **boot.scr** : required, boot script used by uboot, generated from [./conf/evalsoc/uboot.cmd](conf/evalsoc/uboot.cmd) * **uImage.lz4** : required, lz4 archived kernel image * **uInitrd.lz4** : required, lz4 archived rootfs image > SDCard is recommended to use SDHC format. > SDCard need to be formatted to `FAT32` format, with only 1 partition. ### Run Linux When all above is done, you can reset the power on board, then opensbi will boot uboot, and uboot will automatically load linux image and initramfs from SDCard and boot linux if everything is prepared correctly. If you met with issues, please check the [**Known issues and FAQ**](#Known-issues-and-FAQs). The linux login user name and password is *root* and *nuclei*. Sample output in **UART @ 115200bps, Data 8bit, Parity None, Stop Bits 1bit, No Flow Control**. > **Flow control must be disabled in UART terminal**. > UART baudrate changed from 57600bps to 115200bps, due to evaluation SoC frequency by default > changed from 8MHz to 16MHz or 100MHz, and now uart can work correctly on 115200bps. > This output may be out of date. ~~~ OpenSBI v0.9 ____ _____ ____ _____ / __ \ / ____| _ \_ _| | | | |_ __ ___ _ __ | (___ | |_) || | | | | | '_ \ / _ \ '_ \ \___ \| _ < | | | |__| | |_) | __/ | | |____) | |_) || |_ \____/| .__/ \___|_| |_|_____/|____/_____| | | |_| Platform Name : Nuclei Evaluation SoC Platform Features : timer,mfdeleg Platform HART Count : 8 Firmware Base : 0xa0000000 Firmware Size : 156 KB Runtime SBI Version : 0.2 Domain0 Name : root Domain0 Boot HART : 0 Domain0 HARTs : 0*,1*,2*,3*,4*,5*,6*,7* Domain0 Region00 : 0x00000000a0000000-0x00000000a003ffff () Domain0 Region01 : 0x0000000000000000-0xffffffffffffffff (R,W,X) Domain0 Next Address : 0x00000000a0200000 Domain0 Next Arg1 : 0x00000000a8000000 Domain0 Next Mode : S-mode Domain0 SysReset : yes Boot HART ID : 0 Boot HART Domain : root Boot HART ISA : rv64imafdcbsu Boot HART Features : scounteren,mcounteren,time Boot HART PMP Count : 16 Boot HART PMP Granularity : 4096 Boot HART PMP Address Bits: 30 Boot HART MHPM Count : 0 Boot HART MHPM Count : 0 Boot HART MIDELEG : 0x0000000000000222 Boot HART MEDELEG : 0x000000000000b109 U-Boot 2021.01-00021-g7e7c388fc6 (Jun 09 2023 - 17:01:18 +0800) CPU: rv64imafdc Model: nuclei,evalsoc DRAM: 1.5 GiB Board: Initialized MMC: Nuclei SPI version 0xee010102 spi@10034000:mmc@0: 0 In: serial@10013000 Out: serial@10013000 Err: serial@10013000 Net: No ethernet found. Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 switch to partitions #0, OK mmc0 is current device Scanning mmc 0:1... Found U-Boot script /boot.scr 725 bytes read in 334 ms (2 KiB/s) ## Executing script at a0200000 Boot images located in . Loading kernel: ./uImage.lz4 4030405 bytes read in 19703 ms (199.2 KiB/s) Loading ramdisk: ./uInitrd.lz4 6261647 bytes read in 30264 ms (201.2 KiB/s) ./kernel.dtb not found, ignore it Starts booting from SD ## Booting kernel from Legacy Image at a3000000 ... Image Name: Linux Image Type: RISC-V Linux Kernel Image (lz4 compressed) Data Size: 4034958 Bytes = 3.8 MiB Load Address: a0400000 Entry Point: a0400000 Verifying Checksum ... OK ## Loading init Ramdisk from Legacy Image at a8300000 ... Image Name: Initrd Image Type: RISC-V Linux RAMDisk Image (lz4 compressed) Data Size: 6260898 Bytes = 6 MiB Load Address: 00000000 Entry Point: 00000000 Verifying Checksum ... OK ## Flattened Device Tree blob at a8000000 Booting using the fdt blob at 0xa8000000 Uncompressing Kernel Image Using Device Tree in place at 00000000a8000000, end 00000000a8004244 Starting kernel ... [ 0.000000] Linux version 5.10.181+ (xl_ci@whml1.corp.nucleisys.com) (riscv-nuclei-linux-gnu-gcc (GCC) 10.2.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.36.1) #1 SMP Fri Jun 9 17:03:39 CST 2023 [ 0.000000] OF: fdt: Ignoring memory range 0xa0000000 - 0xa0400000 [ 0.000000] Machine model: nuclei,evalsoc [ 0.000000] earlycon: sbi0 at I/O port 0x0 (options '') [ 0.000000] printk: bootconsole [sbi0] enabled [ 0.000000] efi: UEFI not found. [ 0.000000] Initial ramdisk at: 0x(____ptrval____) (6262784 bytes) [ 0.000000] Zone ranges: [ 0.000000] DMA32 [mem 0x00000000a0400000-0x00000000fdffffff] [ 0.000000] Normal empty [ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node [ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges [ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x00000000a0400000-0x00000000fdffffff] [ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x00000000a0400000-0x00000000fdffffff] [ 0.000000] software IO TLB: mapped [mem 0x00000000f8475000-0x00000000fc475000] (64MB) [ 0.000000] SBI specification v0.2 detected [ 0.000000] SBI implementation ID=0x1 Version=0x9 [ 0.000000] SBI v0.2 TIME extension detected [ 0.000000] SBI v0.2 IPI extension detected [ 0.000000] SBI v0.2 RFENCE extension detected [ 0.000000] SBI v0.2 HSM extension detected [ 0.000000] riscv: ISA extensions acdfim [ 0.000000] riscv: ELF capabilities acdfim [ 0.000000] percpu: Embedded 16 pages/cpu s25432 r8192 d31912 u65536 [ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping on. Total pages: 508030 [ 0.000000] Kernel command line: earlycon=sbi console=ttyNUC0 [ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 262144 (order: 9, 2097152 bytes, linear) [ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 8, 1048576 bytes, linear) [ 0.000000] Sorting __ex_table... [ 0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off [ 0.000000] Memory: 1943116K/2060288K available (4731K kernel code, 4122K rwdata, 2048K rodata, 192K init, 333K bss, 117172K reserved, 0K cma-reserved) [ 0.000000] SLUB: HWalign=64, Order=0-3, MinObjects=0, CPUs=8, Nodes=1 [ 0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation. [ 0.000000] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 10 jiffies. [ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 64, nr_irqs: 64, preallocated irqs: 0 [ 0.000000] riscv-intc: 64 local interrupts mapped [ 0.000000] plic: interrupt-controller@1c000000: mapped 53 interrupts with 8 handlers for 16 contexts. [ 0.000000] riscv_timer_init_dt: Registering clocksource cpuid [0] hartid [0] [ 0.000000] clocksource: riscv_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x1ef4687b1, max_idle_ns: 112843571739654 ns [ 0.000091] sched_clock: 64 bits at 32kHz, resolution 30517ns, wraps every 70368744171142ns [ 0.010131] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 0.06 BogoMIPS (lpj=327) [ 0.019897] pid_max: default: 32768 minimum: 301 [ 0.027313] Mount-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) [ 0.035186] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 4096 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) [ 0.068054] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation. [ 0.075897] EFI services will not be available. [ 0.089385] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ... [ 0.187866] smp: Brought up 1 node, 8 CPUs [ 0.202362] devtmpfs: initialized [ 0.227691] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 19112604462750000 ns [ 0.237274] futex hash table entries: 2048 (order: 5, 131072 bytes, linear) [ 0.248870] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem [ 0.264373] NET: Registered protocol family 16 [ 0.407867] clocksource: Switched to clocksource riscv_clocksource [ 0.429260] NET: Registered protocol family 2 [ 0.441894] IP idents hash table entries: 32768 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear) [ 0.493499] tcp_listen_portaddr_hash hash table entries: 1024 (order: 2, 16384 bytes, linear) [ 0.502899] TCP established hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 131072 bytes, linear) [ 0.515624] TCP bind hash table entries: 16384 (order: 6, 262144 bytes, linear) [ 0.532165] TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) [ 0.542694] UDP hash table entries: 1024 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) [ 0.550628] UDP-Lite hash table entries: 1024 (order: 3, 32768 bytes, linear) [ 0.561370] NET: Registered protocol family 1 [ 0.574340] RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module. [ 0.579925] RPC: Registered udp transport module. [ 0.584472] RPC: Registered tcp transport module. [ 0.589416] RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module. [ 0.598327] Trying to unpack rootfs image as initramfs... [ 4.828521] Freeing initrd memory: 6108K [ 4.844085] workingset: timestamp_bits=62 max_order=19 bucket_order=0 [ 4.932403] jffs2: version 2.2. (NAND) © 2001-2006 Red Hat, Inc. [ 4.944885] JFS: nTxBlock = 8192, nTxLock = 65536 [ 6.455963] NET: Registered protocol family 38 [ 6.460235] io scheduler mq-deadline registered [ 6.464508] io scheduler kyber registered [ 7.040069] 10013000.serial: ttyNUC0 at MMIO 0x10013000 (irq = 1, base_baud = 3125000) is a Nuclei UART/USART [ 7.049835] printk: console [ttyNUC0] enabled [ 7.049835] printk: console [ttyNUC0] enabled [ 7.058288] printk: bootconsole [sbi0] disabled [ 7.058288] printk: bootconsole [sbi0] disabled [ 7.178802] brd: module loaded [ 7.289184] loop: module loaded [ 7.295959] nuclei_spi 10014000.spi: mapped; irq=2, cs=4 [ 7.308898] spi-nor spi0.0: w25q128 (16384 Kbytes) [ 8.300964] ftl_cs: FTL header not found. [ 8.315277] nuclei_spi 10034000.spi: mapped; irq=4, cs=4 [ 8.368408] mmc_spi spi1.0: SD/MMC host mmc0, no DMA, no WP, no poweroff, cd polling [ 8.380371] ipip: IPv4 and MPLS over IPv4 tunneling driver [ 8.398406] NET: Registered protocol family 10 [ 8.417083] Segment Routing with IPv6 [ 8.421417] sit: IPv6, IPv4 and MPLS over IPv4 tunneling driver [ 8.434722] NET: Registered protocol family 17 [ 8.457489] Freeing unused kernel memory: 192K [ 8.490570] Run /init as init process [ 8.549285] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable [ 8.556854] mmc0: new SDHC card on SPI [ 8.575378] mmcblk0: mmc0:0000 NCard 29.1 GiB [ 8.628082] mmcblk0: p1 Starting syslogd: OK Starting klogd: OK Running sysctl: OK Starting mdev... OK modprobe: can't change directory to '/lib/modules': No such file or directory Saving random seed: [ 15.487396] random: dd: uninitialized urandom read (32 bytes read) OK Welcome to Nuclei System Technology nucleisys login: ~~~ ## Application Development ### Quick help You can run `make help` to show quick help message about how to use this linux sdk. For detailed usage about components like buildroot, linux kernel, opensbi or uboot, please check [Reference](#Reference). ### Customize buildroot packages You can customize buildroot packages to add or remove package in buildroot using command: ~~~shell make buildroot_initramfs-menuconfig ~~~ The new configuration for evalsoc will be saved to `conf/evalsoc` folder, for when a full rebuild of buildroot is necessary, please check [this link](https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html#full-rebuild). * *conf/evalsoc/buildroot_initramfs_rv64imac_config*: The buildroot configuration for RISC-V ISA/ARCH is **rv64imac**, such as ux600 and ux900 * *conf/evalsoc/buildroot_initramfs_rv64imafdc_config*: The buildroot configuration for for RISC-V ISA/ARCH is **rv64imafdc**, such as ux600fd and ux900fd By default, we add many packages in buildroot default configuration, you can remove the packages you dont need in configuration to generate smaller rootfs, a full rebuild of SDK is required for removing buildroot package. ### Customize kernel configuration You can customize linux kernel configuration using command `make linux-menuconfig`, the new configuration will be saved to `conf` folder * *conf/evalsoc/linux_rv64imac_defconfig*: The linux kernel configuration for RISC-V rv64imac ARCH. * *conf/evalsoc/linux_rv64imafdc_defconfig*: The linux kernel configuration for RISC-V rv64imafdc ARCH. * *conf/evalsoc/nuclei_rv64imac.dts*: Device tree for RISC-V rv64imac ARCH used in hardware * *conf/evalsoc/nuclei_rv64imafdc.dts*: Device tree for RISC-V rv64imafdc ARCH used in hardware > `xlspike` dts are only used internally * *conf/evalsoc/nuclei_rv64imac_sim.dts*: Device tree for RISC-V rv64imac ARCH used in xlspike simulation * *conf/evalsoc/nuclei_rv64imafdc_sim.dts*: Device tree for RISC-V rv64imafdc ARCH used in xlspike simulation ### Customize uboot configuration You can customize linux kernel configuration using command `make uboot-menuconfig`, the new configuration will be saved to `conf` folder * *conf/evalsoc/uboot_rv64imac_flash_config*: uboot configuration for RISC-V rv64imac ARCH, flash boot mode * *conf/evalsoc/uboot_rv64imafdc_flash_config*: uboot configuration for RISC-V rv64imafdc ARCH, flash boot mode * *conf/evalsoc/uboot_rv64imac_sd_config*: uboot configuration for RISC-V rv64imac ARCH, flash boot mode * *conf/evalsoc/uboot_rv64imafdc_sd_config*: uboot configuration for RISC-V rv64imafdc ARCH, sd boot mode ### Remove generated boot images You can remove generated boot images using command `make cleanboot`. ### Prebuilt applications with RootFS If you want to do application development in Linux with FPGA Evaluation board, please follow these steps. Currently, SDCard is not working in Linux, so if you want to put your own application, and run it in linux, you have to add your application into rootfs and rebuild it, and use the newly generated boot images, and put it into SDCard. For example, I would like to compile new `dhrystone` application and run it in linux. 0. Make sure you have built boot images, using `make bootimages` 1. Copy the old `dhrystone` source code from `work/$SOC/buildroot_initramfs/build/dhrystone-2` to `work/$SOC/buildroot_initramfs/build/dhrystone-3` 2. cd to `work/$SOC/buildroot_initramfs/build/dhrystone-3`, and modify `Makefile` as below: ~~~makefile # Make sure you use the compiler in this path below CC = ../../host/bin/riscv-nuclei-linux-gnu-gcc CPPFLAGS += -DNO_PROTOTYPES=1 -DHZ=100 # Customized optimization options CFLAGS += -O2 -flto -funroll-all-loops -finline-limit=600 \ -ftree-dominator-opts -fno-if-conversion2 -fselective-scheduling \ -fno-code-hoisting -fno-common -funroll-loops -finline-functions \ -falign-functions=4 -falign-jumps=4 -falign-loops=4 LDLIBS += -lm all: dhrystone dhrystone: dhry_1.o dhry_2.o $(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o $@ $^ $(LDLIBS) clean: rm -f *.o dhrystone .PHONY: all clean ~~~ 3. Run `make clean all` to rebuild this `dhrystone` 4. Copy generated `dhrystone` to previous generated buildroot_initramfs_sysroot folder, using command `cp dhrystone ../../../buildroot_initramfs_sysroot/usr/bin/dhrystone_opt` 5. cd to Nuclei linux SDK root, and run `make preboot` to clean previously generated boot images. 6. Generate new boot images with `dhrystone_opt` application added using command `make bootimages` 7. Download the generated `work/$SOC/boot.zip` and extract it right under the SDCard root. 8. If you have already flashed `freeloader` using openocd, then just insert the SDCard, and reboot the board, when board is power on, and linux kernel is up, you can run the application `dhrystone_opt` in linux shell. ### Put prebuilt applications into SDCard In the lastest commits since 079414d, sdcard can be initialized successfully during kernel boot. Sample console output of kernel init message for sdcard ready. ~~~ [ 124.646575] mmcblk0: mmc0:0000 SA08G 7.21 GiB [ 125.242645] mmcblk0: p1 ~~~ > **Note**: Currently the sdcard driver is using polling mode as temporary workaround. When you have login the linux system, you can run command below to check whether sdcard is initialized successfully. ~~~sh # ls -l /dev/mmc* brw-rw---- 1 root root 179, 0 Jan 1 00:04 /dev/mmcblk0 brw-rw---- 1 root root 179, 1 Jan 1 00:04 /dev/mmcblk0p1 ~~~ If there are **/dev/mmcblk0p1** devices, then you can mount sdcard in *mnt* directory using command: ~~~sh # Mount /dev/mmcblk0p1 into /mnt mount -t vfat /dev/mmcblk0p1 /mnt # Check whether sdcard is mounted successfully ls -l /mnt ~~~ If you want to put your prebuilt applications into SDCard, you need to unmount the sdcard first using `umount /mnt`, and then eject the sdcard from the tf slot, and then insert the sdcard to sdcard reader and connect to your PC, and copy your prebuilt applications into SDCard. When your applications are placed into the sdcard correctly, then you can insert your card into tf slot, and mount it into `/mnt` directory. For example, if you have an application called `coremark`, then you can directly run it using `/mnt/coremark`. ## Port to your target > demosoc is deprecated, please take evalsoc as example. For our current development evalsoc, we used the following resources: * RV64IMAC or RV64IMAFDC Core, with 16 PMP entries * DDR RAM: *0xA0000000 - 0x100000000*, 1.5GB, DDR RAM is seperated to place opensbi, uboot, kernel, rootfs, dtb binaries. * I/D Cache enabled * UART @ 0x10013000 * PLIC @ 0x1C000000 * QSPI @ 0x10034000, which connect to SDCard, SDCard will be used when boot from SDCard * QSPI @ 0x10014000, which connect to XIP SPIFlash 4M, memory mapped started at 0x20000000. SPIFlash is used to place freeloader, which contains opensbi, uboot, dtb, and optional kernel and rootfs when flash-only boot is performed. **Flash-only boot** will required at least 8M flash. To basically port this SDK to match your target, you can make a copy of `conf/evalsoc` such as `conf/nsoc`: * *freeloader.mk*: change the variable defined in this mk to match your design * **DDR_BASE**, **FLASH_BASE** and **FLASH_SIZE** are used to set DDR base address and Flash base address and size used by freeloader. * If you want to use SMP linux, you need to set **ENABLE_SMP** and **ENABLE_L2** to 1 * If you only have 1 core, please make sure **ENABLE_SMP** and **ENABLE_L2** is 0 * If you will not using amp mode, please set **AMP_START_CORE** to max hart id, for example, if you have four core, change it to 4. * **CACHE_CTRL** and **TLB_CTRL** is used to control L1/L2 cache control CSR `mcache_ctl` and TLB CTRL csr `mtlb_ctl` * **SPFL1DCTRL1**, **SPFL1DCTRL2** and **MERGL1DCTRL** are used to control L1 DCache Prefetch and Write Streaming or Merge Control registers `spfl1dctrl1`, `spfl1dctrl2` and `mergel1dctrl` * *build.mk*: * Change **UIMAGE_AE_CMD** to match your DDR base, used by Makefile to generate rootfs for uboot. * If you have qemu support, you can change your qemu machine options **QEMU_MACHINE_OPTS** to match your qemu machine. * If you are using AMP, **CORE1_APP_BIN**, **CORE2_APP_BIN**, **CORE3_APP_BIN**, **CORE4_APP_BIN**, **CORE5_APP_BIN**, **CORE6_APP_BIN** and **CORE7_APP_BIN** need to be configured, CORE1-CORE7 each memory is default 4MB(configured by **AMPFW_SIZE**) and application base address is default offset 0x5E000000(configured by **AMPFW_START_OFFSET**) at DDR base, you can refer to https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/issues/18 for how to use AMP demo. > Here each core memory is changed from 8M to 4M, due to only 32MB is reserved for amp binaries, and now we support 8 cores. - **CORE1_APP_BIN** start offset is **DDR_BASE** + **0x5E000000**, such as `$(confdir)/amp/c1.bin` - **CORE2_APP_BIN** start offset is **DDR_BASE** + **0x5E000000** + **4M**, such as `$(confdir)/amp/c2.bin` - **CORE3_APP_BIN** start offset is **DDR_BASE** + **0x5E000000** + **4M*2**, such as `$(confdir)/amp/c3.bin` - **CORE4_APP_BIN** start offset is **DDR_BASE** + **0x5E000000** + **4M*3**, such as `$(confdir)/amp/c4.bin` - **CORE5_APP_BIN** start offset is **DDR_BASE** + **0x5E000000** + **4M*4**, such as `$(confdir)/amp/c5.bin` - **CORE6_APP_BIN** start offset is **DDR_BASE** + **0x5E000000** + **4M*5**, such as `$(confdir)/amp/c6.bin` - **CORE7_APP_BIN** start offset is **DDR_BASE** + **0x5E000000** + **4M*6**, such as `$(confdir)/amp/c7.bin` * **TIMER_HZ**, **CPU_HZ**, **PERIPH_HZ** are used by `*.dts` files to generate correct timer, cpu, peripheral clock hz, if you directly set it in dts, not need for this variables. * *opensbi/*: Change the opensbi support code for your soc, all the files need to be modified. * *nuclei_rv64imac.dts*, *nuclei_rv64imafdc.dts* and *openocd.cfg*: Change these files to match your SoC design. - Select the right dts which match your cpu isa, for example, if you are using rv64imafdc, please use `nuclei_rv64imafdc.dts` - External interrupts connected to plic interrupt number started from 1, 0 is reserved. For example, in evalsoc, interrupt id of UART0 is 32, then plic interrupt number is 33, and if elic also present, the eclic interrupt number will be 32+19=51 - If you want to boot linux using hvc console(console via sbi console, useful when uart driver in linux is not ready), you can change `bootargs` to make `console=/dev/hvc0`, then it will use sbi console to print message - If you UART driver in linux is ready, then you can change the console to your real uart device name. * *uboot.cmd*: Change to match your memory map. * *uboot_rv64imac_sd_config*, *uboot_rv64imac_flash_config*, *uboot_rv64imafdc_sd_config* and *uboot_rv64imafdc_flash_config*: change **CONFIG_SYS_TEXT_BASE** and **CONFIG_BOOTCOMMAND** to match your uboot system text address and boot command address. * If you have a lot of changes in uboot or linux, please directly change code in it. > In evalsoc support, spmp bypass is controlled by code in `conf/evalsoc/opensbi/platform.c` for opensbi v0.9, `conf/evalsoc/opensbi/evalsoc.c` for opensbi >= v1.2 > From commit 6507c68 on, the spmp will be bypassed(done in code as below) when tee is present(checked mcfg_info csr). > If you have enabled TEE feature(sPMP module included), you need to configure spmp csr registers > as this commit https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/opensbi/commit/1d28050d01b93b6afe590487324b663c65a2c429 . > Then you will be able to boot up linux kernel, otherwise the init process will fail. ## Known issues and FAQs > Please also track issues located in https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/issues * Clone source code from github or gitee failed with issue `the remote end hung up unexpectedly`. see https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/issues/10 for up to date answer. This Nuclei Linux SDK repo is a very big repo with many submodules, just simple clone is not enough, you always need to do submodule init and update, sometimes due to connection issue or http clone not stable issue, please switch to use ssh protocol used in git clone, see similar issue posted in stackoverflow, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6842687/the-remote-end-hung-up-unexpectedly-while-git-cloning Or you can try shallow submodule update: ~~~shell ## clone repo from github git clone https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk.git ## if github is not working please use gitee, no longer working, deprecated now, see https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/issues/10#issuecomment-1728920670 # git clone https://gitee.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk.git ## if https is not ok, please switch to ssh method, but you need to follow guidance in github or gitee ## github: https://docs.github.com/cn/authentication/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/generating-a-new-ssh-key-and-adding-it-to-the-ssh-agent ## gitee: https://gitee.com/help/articles/4181 cd nuclei-linux-sdk git submodule update --init --depth=1 ## please check sample output here: https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/wiki/Sample-Outputs#sample-output-for-git-clone ~~~ Or you just want to get latest source code without any git histories, you can also open our repo's github action link in github https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/actions , make sure your github is logged in, and then click on any successful action of your desired branch, and find the *nuclei_linux_sdk_source* in the **Artifacts** at the bottom of page, and click the *nuclei_linux_sdk_source* and download it. * For Nuclei Demo SoC, if you run simulation using xl_spike, it can run to login prompt, but when you login, it will show timeout issue, this is caused by xl_spike timer is not standard type, but the boot images for FPGA evaluation board can boot successfully and works well. If you want to execute using *xl_spike* without the login, you can edit the `work/$SOC/buildroot_initramfs_sysroot/etc/inittab` file(started from `# now run any rc scripts`) as below, and save it: ~~~ # now run any rc scripts #::sysinit:/etc/init.d/rcS # Put a getty on the serial port #console::respawn:/sbin/getty -L console 0 vt100 # GENERIC_SERIAL ::respawn:-/bin/sh ~~~ And then type `make presim` and `make sim` to run linux in *xl_spike*, you will be able to get following output in final: ~~~ ## a lot of boot message are reduced here ## UART: [ 246.974853] sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver UART: [ 247.057922] sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman UART: [ 247.447723] NET: Registered protocol family 17 UART: [ 266.205169] Freeing unused kernel memory: 36052K UART: [ 266.314117] Run /init as init process UART: # ls ls UART: bin init linuxrc opt run tmp UART: dev lib media proc sbin usr UART: etc lib64 mnt root sys var UART: # cat /proc/cpuinfo cat /proc/cpuinfo UART: processor : 0 UART: hart : 0 UART: isa : rv64imac UART: mmu : sv39 UART: ~~~ * For some SDCard format, it might not be supported, please check your SDCard is SDHC format. * If you can't boot with the sdcard boot images, you can run the following commands in uboot to check whether sdcard is recognized. 1. Type `mmcinfo` to check whether sdcard is recognized? If no output, please re-insert the sdcard, and try this command again, if still not working, please confirm that the MCS is correct or not? ~~~ Hit any key to stop autoboot: 0 => mmcinfo Device: spi@10034000:mmc@0 Manufacturer ID: 2 OEM: 544d Name: SA08G Bus Speed: 20000000 Mode: MMC legacy Rd Block Len: 512 SD version 2.0 High Capacity: Yes Capacity: 7.2 GiB Bus Width: 1-bit Erase Group Size: 512 Bytes ~~~ 2. If SDCard is recognized correctly, please type `fatls mmc 0`, and check whether the following files are listed as below, if you can get the following files in your sdcard, please reformat your sdcard to `Fat32` format, and copy the generated files in *work/$SOC/boot/* to the root of sdcard, and re-insert the sdcard to SD slot, and retry from step 1. **Note:** Please make sure your SDCard is safely injected in your OS, and SDCard is formated to `Fat32`. ~~~ => fatls mmc 0 2594 kernel.dtb # device tree binary file 345 boot.scr # boot script used by uboot, generated from ./conf//uboot.cmd 3052821 uImage.lz4 # lz4 archived kernel image 19155960 uInitrd.lz4 # lz4 archived rootfs image 4 file(s), 0 dir(s) ~~~ 3. If the above steps are all correct, then you can run `boot` command to boot linux, or type commands located in [./conf/evalsoc/uboot.cmd](conf/evalsoc/uboot.cmd) for evalsoc. * The linux kernel and rootfs size is too big, is there any way to reduce it to speed up boot speed? If you are familiar with linux and buildroot configuration files, you can directly modify the configuration files located in `conf` folder. If you modified this files directly and want to take effects, you need to `make clean` first, and regenerate boot images. You can also try `make buildroot_initramfs-menuconfig` to get a terminal menuconfig to configure the buildroot packages. You can also try `make linux-menuconfig` to get a menuconfig to configure the linux kernel. You can also try `make uboot-menuconfig` to get a menuconfig to configure the uboot. * Other possible ways to reduce generated rootfs image size. If you are familiar with the generated rootfs files located in `work//buildroot_initramfs_sysroot`, you can manually remove the files you think it is not used, and type `make cleanboot` and then `make bootimages`, you can check the size information generated by the command. * The best way to learn this project is taking a look at the [Makefile](Makefile) of this project to learn about what is really done in each make target. * Download *work/$SOC/freeloader/freeloader.elf* using Nuclei SDK. If you don't want to build the nuclei sdk, you can also download the boot images generated by [github action](https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/actions). For example, for `dev_nuclei_next` branch, you can find the previous built artifacts in [prebuilt artifacts][1]. Then you can extra the downloaded `bootimages_ux600.zip` and extract `freeloader/freeloader.elf` to your disk, such as `D:/freeloader.elf`. Make sure you have followed [steps](https://doc.nucleisys.com/nuclei_sdk/quickstart.html) to setup nuclei sdk development environment, then you can follow steps below to download this `D:/freeloader.elf`. see https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/wiki/Program-freeloader ## Reference * [Buildroot Manual](https://buildroot.org/downloads/manual/manual.html) * [OpenSBI Manual](https://github.com/riscv/opensbi#documentation) * [Uboot Manual](https://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Documentation) * [Linux Manual](https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/) --- [1]: https://github.com/Nuclei-Software/nuclei-linux-sdk/actions/runs/2232759453