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For convenience this also adds a small visionfive_defconfig and the
firmware needed for the brcmfmac driver along with the signed regulatory
database.

The firmware is from the linux-firmware repo and the regulatory database
from the wireless-regdb Fedora package.

Signed-off-by: Emil Renner Berthing <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Drew Fustini <[email protected]>
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# Linux kernel for StarFive's JH7100 RISC-V SoC

## What is this?

The [JH7100][soc] is a Linux-capable dual-core 64bit RISC-V SoC and this tree
is meant to collect all the in-development patches for running Linux on boards
using this. So far there are two such boards and both are supported by this tree:

1) [StarFive VisionFive][visionfive]
2) [BeagleV Starlight Beta][starlight]

The VisionFive boards aren't quite shipping yet, but you can already
[register interest][interest] and ask questions on the [forum][].

About 300 BeagleV Starlight Beta boards were sent out to developers in
April 2021 in preparation for an eventual BeagleV branded board using the
updated JH7110 chip. The BeagleBoard organization has since [cancelled that
project][beaglev] though.


[visionfive]: https://github.com/starfive-tech/VisionFive
[interest]: http://starfive.mikecrm.com/doQXj99
[forum]: https://forum.rvspace.org/c/visionfive/6
[starlight]: https://github.com/beagleboard/beaglev-starlight
[soc]: https://github.com/starfive-tech/JH7100_Docs
[beaglev]: https://beaglev.org/blog/2021-07-30-the-future-of-beaglev-community

## Cross-compiling

Cross-compiling the Linux kernel is surprisingly easy since it doesn't depend
on any (target) libraries and most distributions already have packages with a
working cross-compiler. We'll also need a few other tools to build everything:
```shell
# Debian/Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install libncurses-dev libssl-dev bc flex bison make gcc gcc-riscv64-linux-gnu
# Fedora
sudo dnf install ncurses-devel openssl openssl-devel bc flex bison make gcc gcc-riscv64-linux-gnu
# Archlinux
sudo pacman -S --needed ncurses openssl bc flex bison make gcc riscv64-linux-gnu-gcc
```

The build system needs to know that we want to cross-compile a kernel for
RISC-V by setting `ARCH=riscv`. It also needs to know the prefix of our
cross-compiler using `CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu-`. Also let's assume
we're building on an 8-core machine so compilation can be greatly sped up by
telling make to use all 8 cores with `-j8`.

First we need to configure the kernel though. Linux has a *very* extensive
configuration system, but you can get a good baseline configuration for the
boards using:
```shell
make -j8 ARCH=riscv CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu- visionfive_defconfig
```

There is nothing magic about this configuration other than it has all the
drivers enabled that are working for the hardware on the boards. In fact it has
very little extra features enabled which is great for compile times, but you
are very much encouraged to add additional drivers and configure your kernel
further using
```shell
make -j8 ARCH=riscv CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu- nconfig
```

Now compile the whole thing with
```
make -j8 ARCH=riscv CROSS_COMPILE=riscv64-linux-gnu-
```


## Installing

Once the build has finished the resulting kernel can be found at
```shell
arch/riscv/boot/Image
```
You'll also need the matching device tree at
```shell
arch/riscv/boot/dts/starfive/jh7100-starfive-visionfive-v1.dtb
```
(If you have a Starlight board you should instead be using `jh7100-beaglev-starlight.dtb`.)

These two files should be copied to the boot partition on the SD card. In the
default [Fedora image][fedora] this is `/dev/mmcblk0p3` and is mounted at `/boot`.

Now add the following entry to the `grub.cfg` file:
```
menuentry 'My New Kernel' {
linux /Image earlycon console=ttyS0,115200n8 stmmac.chain_mode=1 root=/dev/mmcblk0p4 rootwait
devicetree /jh7100-starfive-visionfive-v1.dtb
}
```

This assumes your root file system is at `/dev/mmcblk0p4` which it is in the
default [Fedora image][fedora].

The `visionfive_defconfig` doesn't enable modules, but if you enabled them in
your build you'll also need to install them in `/lib/modules/` on the root file
system. How to do that best is out of scope for this README though.

[fedora]: https://github.com/starfive-tech/Fedora_on_StarFive/

## Status

#### SoC

- [x] Clock tree
- [x] Resets
- [x] Pinctrl/Pinmux
- [x] GPIO
- [x] Serial port
- [x] I2C
- [x] SPI
- [x] MMC / SDIO / SD card
- [x] Random number generator
- [x] Temperature sensor
- [x] Ethernet, though `stmmac.chain_mode=1` needed on the cmdline
- [x] USB, USB 3.0 is broken with `CONFIG_PM=y`
- [x] DRM driver
- [x] NVDLA
- [x] Watchdog
- [x] PWM DAC for sound through the minijack, only 16kHz samplerate for now
- [ ] I2S [WIP]
- [ ] TDM [WIP]
- [ ] MIPI-DSI [WIP]
- [ ] MIPI-CSI [WIP]
- [ ] ISP [WIP]
- [ ] Video Decode [WIP]
- [ ] Video Encode [WIP]
- [ ] QSPI
- [ ] Security Engine
- [ ] NNE50
- [ ] Vision DSP

#### Board

- [x] LED
- [x] PMIC / Reboot
- [x] Ethernet PHY
- [x] HDMI
- [x] AP6236 Wifi
- [x] AP6236 Bluetooth, with a [userspace tool][patchram]
- [x] I2C EEPROM (VisionFive only)
- [ ] GD25LQ128DWIG (VisionFive) / GD25LQ256D (Starlight) flash

[patchram]: https://github.com/AsteroidOS/brcm-patchram-plus

## Contributing

If you're working on cleaning up or upstreaming some of this or adding support
for more of the SoC I'd very much like to incorporate it into this tree. Either
send a pull request, mail or contact Esmil on IRC/Slack.

Also think of this tree mostly as a collection of patches that will hopefully
mature enough to be submitted upstream eventually. So expect regular rebases.
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CONFIG_LOCALVERSION="-visionfive"
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_POSIX_MQUEUE=y
# CONFIG_CROSS_MEMORY_ATTACH is not set
CONFIG_NO_HZ_IDLE=y
CONFIG_HIGH_RES_TIMERS=y
CONFIG_BPF_SYSCALL=y
CONFIG_PSI=y
# CONFIG_CPU_ISOLATION is not set
CONFIG_IKCONFIG=y
CONFIG_IKCONFIG_PROC=y
CONFIG_CGROUPS=y
CONFIG_CGROUP_SCHED=y
CONFIG_CFS_BANDWIDTH=y
CONFIG_CGROUP_PIDS=y
CONFIG_CGROUP_CPUACCT=y
CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_INITRD=y
# CONFIG_RD_BZIP2 is not set
# CONFIG_RD_LZMA is not set
# CONFIG_RD_XZ is not set
# CONFIG_RD_LZO is not set
# CONFIG_RD_LZ4 is not set
CONFIG_EXPERT=y
# CONFIG_SYSFS_SYSCALL is not set
CONFIG_PERF_EVENTS=y
# CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS is not set
# CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_SHUFFLE_PAGE_ALLOCATOR=y
CONFIG_SOC_STARFIVE=y
# CONFIG_RISCV_ERRATA_ALTERNATIVE is not set
CONFIG_SMP=y
CONFIG_NR_CPUS=4
# CONFIG_RISCV_SBI_V01 is not set
CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y
# CONFIG_STACKPROTECTOR is not set
# CONFIG_GCC_PLUGINS is not set
CONFIG_BLK_WBT=y
# CONFIG_BLK_DEBUG_FS is not set
CONFIG_PARTITION_ADVANCED=y
# CONFIG_MQ_IOSCHED_DEADLINE is not set
# CONFIG_MQ_IOSCHED_KYBER is not set
CONFIG_IOSCHED_BFQ=y
CONFIG_KSM=y
CONFIG_CMA=y
CONFIG_ZSMALLOC=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_IP_ADVANCED_ROUTER=y
CONFIG_IP_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP=y
CONFIG_IP_PNP_DHCP=y
# CONFIG_INET_DIAG is not set
# CONFIG_IPV6_SIT is not set
CONFIG_IPV6_MULTIPLE_TABLES=y
CONFIG_NET_SCHED=y
CONFIG_NET_SCH_FQ_CODEL=y
CONFIG_BT=y
CONFIG_BT_RFCOMM=y
CONFIG_BT_RFCOMM_TTY=y
CONFIG_BT_BNEP=y
CONFIG_BT_HIDP=y
CONFIG_BT_HS=y
CONFIG_BT_HCIUART=y
CONFIG_BT_HCIUART_H4=y
CONFIG_CFG80211=y
# CONFIG_CFG80211_DEFAULT_PS is not set
CONFIG_RFKILL=y
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS=y
CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y
# CONFIG_STANDALONE is not set
# CONFIG_PREVENT_FIRMWARE_BUILD is not set
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE="regulatory.db regulatory.db.p7s brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.bin brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.clm_blob brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.beagle,beaglev-starlight-jh7100-r0.txt brcm/brcmfmac43430-sdio.starfive,visionfive-v1.txt"
CONFIG_EXTRA_FIRMWARE_DIR="firmware"
CONFIG_MTD=y
CONFIG_MTD_BLOCK=y
CONFIG_MTD_PARTITIONED_MASTER=y
CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NOR=y
# CONFIG_MTD_SPI_NOR_USE_4K_SECTORS is not set
CONFIG_ZRAM=y
CONFIG_ZRAM_MEMORY_TRACKING=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP_MIN_COUNT=1
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_NBD=y
CONFIG_EEPROM_AT24=y
CONFIG_SCSI=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_PROC_FS is not set
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_SD=y
CONFIG_CHR_DEV_SG=y
CONFIG_SCSI_CONSTANTS=y
CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC=y
# CONFIG_SCSI_LOWLEVEL is not set
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_WIREGUARD=y
CONFIG_TUN=y
CONFIG_STMMAC_ETH=y
CONFIG_MICREL_PHY=y
CONFIG_MOTORCOMM_PHY=y
CONFIG_BRCMFMAC=y
CONFIG_INPUT_EVDEV=y
# CONFIG_INPUT_KEYBOARD is not set
# CONFIG_INPUT_MOUSE is not set
# CONFIG_SERIO is not set
# CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS is not set
# CONFIG_LDISC_AUTOLOAD is not set
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DEPRECATED_OPTIONS is not set
# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_16550A_VARIANTS is not set
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DW=y
# CONFIG_DEVMEM is not set
# CONFIG_I2C_COMPAT is not set
CONFIG_I2C_CHARDEV=y
# CONFIG_I2C_HELPER_AUTO is not set
CONFIG_I2C_DESIGNWARE_PLATFORM=y
CONFIG_SPI=y
CONFIG_SPI_CADENCE_QUADSPI=y
CONFIG_SPI_DESIGNWARE=y
CONFIG_SPI_DW_DMA=y
CONFIG_SPI_DW_MMIO=y
CONFIG_SPI_SPIDEV=y
# CONFIG_PTP_1588_CLOCK is not set
CONFIG_GPIOLIB_FASTPATH_LIMIT=256
CONFIG_GPIO_SYSFS=y
CONFIG_GPIO_TPS65086=y
CONFIG_POWER_RESET=y
CONFIG_POWER_RESET_GPIO_RESTART=y
CONFIG_POWER_RESET_TPS65086=y
CONFIG_SENSORS_SFCTEMP=y
CONFIG_THERMAL=y
CONFIG_THERMAL_NETLINK=y
CONFIG_THERMAL_STATISTICS=y
CONFIG_THERMAL_WRITABLE_TRIPS=y
CONFIG_CPU_THERMAL=y
CONFIG_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_STARFIVE_WATCHDOG=y
CONFIG_MFD_TPS65086=y
CONFIG_DRM=y
CONFIG_DRM_I2C_NXP_TDA998X=y
CONFIG_DRM_STARFIVE=y
CONFIG_FB=y
# CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE is not set
CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SOUND=y
CONFIG_SND=y
# CONFIG_SND_SUPPORT_OLD_API is not set
# CONFIG_SND_DRIVERS is not set
# CONFIG_SND_SPI is not set
# CONFIG_SND_USB is not set
CONFIG_SND_SOC=y
CONFIG_SND_STARFIVE_PWMDAC=y
CONFIG_SND_SIMPLE_CARD=y
CONFIG_USB=y
CONFIG_USB_ANNOUNCE_NEW_DEVICES=y
CONFIG_USB_MON=y
CONFIG_USB_XHCI_HCD=y
CONFIG_USB_XHCI_DBGCAP=y
CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y
CONFIG_USB_UAS=y
CONFIG_USB_CDNS_SUPPORT=y
CONFIG_USB_CDNS3=y
CONFIG_USB_CDNS3_HOST=y
CONFIG_MMC=y
# CONFIG_PWRSEQ_EMMC is not set
CONFIG_MMC_DW=y
CONFIG_NEW_LEDS=y
CONFIG_LEDS_CLASS=y
CONFIG_LEDS_GPIO=y
CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGERS=y
CONFIG_LEDS_TRIGGER_HEARTBEAT=y
CONFIG_DMADEVICES=y
CONFIG_DW_AXI_DMAC=y
CONFIG_DMABUF_HEAPS=y
CONFIG_DMABUF_HEAPS_SYSTEM=y
# CONFIG_VIRTIO_MENU is not set
# CONFIG_VHOST_MENU is not set
# CONFIG_IOMMU_SUPPORT is not set
CONFIG_PWM=y
CONFIG_PWM_SIFIVE_PTC=y
CONFIG_EXT4_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT4_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
CONFIG_EXT4_FS_SECURITY=y
CONFIG_BTRFS_FS=y
CONFIG_BTRFS_FS_POSIX_ACL=y
# CONFIG_MANDATORY_FILE_LOCKING is not set
# CONFIG_DNOTIFY is not set
CONFIG_FANOTIFY=y
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=y
CONFIG_VFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_IOCHARSET="iso8859-15"
CONFIG_FAT_DEFAULT_UTF8=y
CONFIG_EXFAT_FS=y
CONFIG_PROC_KCORE=y
CONFIG_TMPFS=y
CONFIG_TMPFS_POSIX_ACL=y
# CONFIG_MISC_FILESYSTEMS is not set
CONFIG_NFS_FS=y
CONFIG_ROOT_NFS=y
CONFIG_NLS_DEFAULT="utf8"
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=y
CONFIG_NLS_ISO8859_15=y
CONFIG_NLS_UTF8=y
CONFIG_LSM=""
CONFIG_CRYPTO_ZSTD=y
# CONFIG_CRYPTO_HW is not set
# CONFIG_RAID6_PQ_BENCHMARK is not set
CONFIG_DMA_CMA=y
# CONFIG_SYMBOLIC_ERRNAME is not set
CONFIG_STRIP_ASM_SYMS=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_SECTION_MISMATCH=y
# CONFIG_SECTION_MISMATCH_WARN_ONLY is not set
CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=y
# CONFIG_DEBUG_MISC is not set
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA_TEST=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_WX=y
CONFIG_SOFTLOCKUP_DETECTOR=y
CONFIG_WQ_WATCHDOG=y
# CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG is not set
CONFIG_STACKTRACE=y
CONFIG_RCU_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT=60
# CONFIG_RCU_TRACE is not set
# CONFIG_FTRACE is not set
# CONFIG_RUNTIME_TESTING_MENU is not set
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