Load on boot success! | *
[ 13.634523] PVR_K: 1201: RGX Firmware image 'rgx.fw.36.50.54.182' loaded
[ 13.675762] PVR_K: 1201: Shader binary image 'rgx.sh.36.50.54.182' loaded
[ 13.693336] [drm] Initialized pvr 1.19.6345021 for 18000000.gpu on minor 1
It only took yelling modprobe.blacklist=don'tloadthe stupidmoduletilllateryoudumbdumb and now we're all set!
Linux 6.19 Release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures
Linus Torvalds has just released Linux 6.19 on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML): No big surprises anywhere last week, so 6.19 is out as expected - just as the US prepares to come to a complete standstill later today watching the latest batch of televised commercials. The betting man would expect them all to be AI-generated, but maybe some enterprising company decides to buck the trend? Doubtful, but there's always a slight chance. But for anybody outside the US, maybe taking the newest kernel out for a spin instead is an option? I have more than three dozen pull requests for when the merge window opens tomorrow - thank you to all the early maintainers. And as people have mostly figured out, I'm getting to the point where I'm being confused by large numbers (almost running out of fingers and toes again), so the next kernel is going to
Continuing my #JavaOnSingleBoardComputers with a new #JavaOnRiscV test! The #StarFive #VisionFive 2 Lite is a 60€ board with 4Gb RAM and a 4-core #RISCV processor, and ... it runs #Java of course ;-)
More info in the blog:
https://webtechie.be/post/2026-01-16-first-test-visionfive-java/
The video is available on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70FYg1YzFfM
I've set up the #riscv #starfive Vision Five 2 to boot Ubuntu from SD card.
I don't feel bothered to install to the nvme drive today. The instructions are bothersome.
Performance seems quite good, comparable to the pi4. Somehow it feels snappier. It's so much faster than than Mango Pi MQ-Pro.
I'm logging in over UART and SSH,. I'm not sure if the GPU is even supported.
Firefox isn't available from apt so I can't test it.
So now I can boot straight into a barebones GNU Guix system on my StarFive VisionFIve 2 RISC-V board from a MicroSD card. I had to patch "gnu/bootloader/u-boot.scm" in Guix to make this work:
https://codeberg.org/avp/guix/src/branch/avp-visionfive2
No success with eMMC yet; it would be nice to create an image that works with eMMC as well.
Linux 6.18 release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures
Linus Torvalds has just announced the release of Linux 6.18 on the Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML), which will likely become the next LTS kernel: So I'll have to admit that I'd have been happier with slightly less bugfixing noise in this last week of the release, but while there's a few more fixes than I would hope for, there was nothing that made me feel like this needs more time to cook. So 6.18 is tagged and pushed out. Most of the last-minute fixes are minor fixes to drivers, with some random noise elsewhere (bluetooth, ceph, afs..). Nothing strikes me as standing out, but hey, there's a shortlog appended if you want to see the details. And this obviously means that the merge window will open tomorrow, and I already have three dozen pull requests pending. Thanks. And as I already mentioned a couple of weeks ago in one
Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2025 – International deals, coupons, and events
Like every year since 2014, I'll list a few international deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2025, as many CNX Software readers cannot benefit from promotions on Amazon’s Black Friday and Cyber Monday events, which will take place from November 20 to December 1. I’ve gathered various deals, discount coupon codes, and events from relevant manufacturers of single board computers, MCU development boards, mini PCs, Smart Home devices, and DIY products, as well as popular online stores, including AliExpress, Banggood, and others. AliExpress Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2025 event AliExpress sales event for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2025 has just started and will last until December 3, 2025 (although I can see until November 29 and December 4 in some places). You can use some of the coupons on the screenshot above, or some alternative coupon codes for the US and some other countries (excluding DE, RU,
StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite is a cheap(er) RISC-V single-board computer (crowdfunding)
The VisionFive 2 Lite is a credit card-sized single-board computer (SBC) that looks a lot like a Raspberry Pi. But it’s actually a smaller, cheaper, and less powerful version of the VisionFive 2 RISC-V SBC that launched a few years ago.
The new model has a slower version of the same processor and loses a few ports and connectors, but picks up optional support for onboard WiFi and Bluetooth. […]
#crowdfunding #riscV #sbc #sifive #starfive #starfiveVisionfive2Lite
It looks like #starfive has a new kickstarter for a budget #riscv sbc to succeed the VisionFive 2
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/starfive/visionfive-2-lite-unlock-risc-v-sbc-at-199
I backed the kickstarter for the visionfive 2, and while it does work fine, I don't use it much. The much lower price is appealing, though with shipping and tariffs and whatnot, the new one probably works out to 50% of the cost of the original.
Stuck an NVMe M.2 disc in. Still:
Available disks are: none.
Which disk is the root disk? ('?' for details) ?
Still no nvme in dmesg.
Trying OpenBSD 7.6, in case 7.7 just broke all of this. Same results.
Ok, maybe I did the dtb step wrong. Looking at the dtb directory from the vendor Debian Linux OS image again, those are directories full of dtb files (and subdirs full of them). Ooops. So copied those files (not just directories) in to /vendor/ on the DOS partition in the OpenBSD install image, from both of those directories, ignoring duplicates where directories had files with the same name... and... exactly the same thing. No devices except serial console show up. Guessing I'm probably doing something wrong with the dtb files but I'm running out of guesses. Do I need to take them from an earlier vendor image than starfive-jh7110-202409-SD-minimal-desktop-wayland.img.bz2 ? Internet is super slow and I have limited data so hate downloading OS images esp unnecessarily.
Anyone have one of these #hifive #starfive boards who can give me a clue? Wouldn't refuse an .img of that partition if someone wanted to share.
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