06-08-2023, 03:14 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-05-2023, 10:42 AM by tantamount.)
I've created a Frankenstein image for Star64 based on Fishwaldo's plasma 1.2 image and the root partition of StarFive's GPU-accelerated image, which was demo'd on Reddit by Slammernanners.
Some context:
On Reddit, Slammernanners showed off a Debian image with StarFive's closed-source drivers and an older Mesa, which only works on the VisionFive 2 board. That board uses the same SoC and GPU as the Star64.
See the video he uploaded here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/...able_as_a/
I inquired about getting this Debian image and Slammernanners gave me this direct link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1...2KCQjJ8JI5
I took Fishwaldo's 1.2 plasma image and tried two experiments:
Experiment 1. Clear out his root partition and rsync over StarFive' files and boot it up: This failed. Systemd complained about some files.
Experiment 2. Use dd to copy over the StarFive' root partition verbatim, as it is location independent of course, overwriting Fishwaldo's. This worked. It booted up to the Gnome login screen of Debian and I logged in.
You can download my 4GB Frankenstein image here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u7qiCJv...sp=sharing
There's not a lot of free space in the root partition (#4), so on Linux you'll need to dd it to a larger microSD, and resize the partition and run resize2fs on it.
I'll upload a larger image in a few days with some updates etc.
The login in user/starfive. You can sudo to install packages.
Never do an apt update, as that'll destroy the GPU acceleration.
Watch the boot up of the image on Star64:
https://youtu.be/qzg7ZwHwU5k
Some context:
On Reddit, Slammernanners showed off a Debian image with StarFive's closed-source drivers and an older Mesa, which only works on the VisionFive 2 board. That board uses the same SoC and GPU as the Star64.
See the video he uploaded here: https://www.reddit.com/r/RISCV/comments/...able_as_a/
I inquired about getting this Debian image and Slammernanners gave me this direct link:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1...2KCQjJ8JI5
I took Fishwaldo's 1.2 plasma image and tried two experiments:
Experiment 1. Clear out his root partition and rsync over StarFive' files and boot it up: This failed. Systemd complained about some files.
Experiment 2. Use dd to copy over the StarFive' root partition verbatim, as it is location independent of course, overwriting Fishwaldo's. This worked. It booted up to the Gnome login screen of Debian and I logged in.
You can download my 4GB Frankenstein image here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1u7qiCJv...sp=sharing
There's not a lot of free space in the root partition (#4), so on Linux you'll need to dd it to a larger microSD, and resize the partition and run resize2fs on it.
I'll upload a larger image in a few days with some updates etc.
The login in user/starfive. You can sudo to install packages.
Never do an apt update, as that'll destroy the GPU acceleration.
Watch the boot up of the image on Star64:
https://youtu.be/qzg7ZwHwU5k