03:13 <Entei[m]> davidlt: hey, should I rebuild the kernel now after being done with GNU toolchain? binaries like gcc, as and ld seem to linked to `linux-vdso` library, which is apparently a library coming from kernel itself.

03:28 <davidlt[m]> You could.

03:28 <davidlt[m]> Anyways you will need more than 1 round of rebuilding.

03:39 <Entei[m]> <davidlt[m]> "Anyways you will need more than..." <- Yeah I am done with first round. This time, now that I built gcc with bootstrap on, binutils didn't throw error during testsuite. But I would suspect my 2nd round of toolchain binaries like gcc, as, ld would still have C instructions since they are linking to this particular kernel library apart from glibc

03:41 <davidlt[m]> As long as it's dynamic linking it's not a big problem.

04:08 <sorear> what's the objective? building a rv64g system?

04:40 <Entei[m]> <sorear> "what's the objective? building..." <- yep

04:41 <sorear> trying to run fedora on a VEGA board or do you have cool research hw?

05:54 <davidlt[m]> I think his company/institution has designed hardware that has no C extension support.

05:55 <davidlt[m]> And they seem to need OS that is not Yocto/OE or/and Buildroot.

07:40 <rwmjones> damn, missed fuwei

08:12 <davidlt[m]> Where?

09:38 <rwmjones> he left the channel this morning at 7am UT

13:03 <davidlt[m]> rwmjones: Fastboot is on your host system.

13:03 <davidlt[m]> I think it's android tools stuff.

13:07 <davidlt[m]> rwmjones: https://matrix.to/#/!GhnNOKFLyvWBmnjqRS:fedoraproject.org/$b0vSIkW9vfDgKolyKrNuSpNe9i04XmRhngXSNyNBX70?via=matrix.org&via=libera.chat&via=fedora.im

13:07 <davidlt[m]> There also disk images uploaded too.

13:08 <davidlt[m]> See: https://github.com/chainsx/fedora-riscv-builder/releases/tag/20230719-1650

13:08 <davidlt[m]> Two days ago.

13:09 <davidlt[m]> Instructions are here: https://github.com/chainsx/fedora-riscv-builder/blob/main/doc/install-guild-licheepi4a.md

13:10 <davidlt[m]> If they have a proper USB support baked into the bootloader, kernel or/and intramfs you could change it to boot root from it.

13:11 <davidlt[m]> Or just keep /boot on sd card.

13:12 <davidlt[m]> But point root= to NVMe over USB.

13:14 <rwmjones> we really need to unfuck this booting situation

13:15 <rwmjones> people looked at arm and thought "this is fine"

13:32 <davidlt[m]> Oh yeah.

13:32 <davidlt[m]> We have the same situation as with armv7 and aarch64 SBCs.

13:32 <davidlt[m]> That is nothing changed.

13:33 <davidlt[m]> Once standards are in a good place, someone should talk to silicon vendors and ask them to make compliant HW.

13:34 <davidlt[m]> Doubt that will happen in SBC space.

13:41 <conchuod> "do ebbr"

13:41 <davidlt[m]> EBBR supports riscv officially.

13:42 <davidlt[m]> Atish did all the spec work for it.

13:59 <rwmjones> by far and away the most annoying this about the lichee 4a is the lack of MAC address in the ethernet PHY

13:59 <rwmjones> it picks a random one each time :-(

14:05 <davidlt[m]> They should read it from eeprom and set it the bootloader, I.e. uboot.

14:05 <davidlt[m]> The same is done for sifive and starfive boards.

14:06 <davidlt[m]> You can actually set it is uboot script.

14:11 <rwmjones> gotta rebuild the kernel/initrd too because it doesn't contain the module for USB

14:11 <rwmjones> so my plan to copy root to a USB drive didn't work out

14:13 <davidlt[m]> I am surprised they didn't incl that as built in.