[Letux-kernel] Successfully booting LetuxOS on Star64 (RISCV) board

[Andreas Kemnade]

On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 15:17:47 +0100
"H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:

> Finally,
> I managed to bake a µSD with makesd that can boot the LetuxOS kernel and Debian 13.2.
> 
> Although I have been working on building our own LetuxOS SPL and U-Boot I found that the board takes the bootloader from eMMC and I just have to provide a /boot/boot.scr file.
> 
> makesd (needs self-update) command: DEV=/dev/sdb /usr/local/bin/makesd -vb latest -vk latest -vr trixie star64 -r letux
> 
> LetuxOS boot.scr source: https://git.goldelico.com/?p=letux-uboot.git;a=blob;f=Letux/boot-scr/boot-star64.txt;h=cbdcbb3a2c455187717ddca1afda9c2208f4b749;hb=acf88e491c8621caa3bd188419b5fbe3b5fab5ab
> LetuxOS Kernel: https://download.goldelico.com/letux-kernel/latest-riscv/
> LetuxOS Rootfs: https://download.goldelico.com/letux-debian-rootfs/trixie-riscv64-letux.tbz
> 
> Attached are higlights from the Boot Log.
> Note 1: I can simply use my RasPi FTDI adapter for the boot console
> Note 2: systemd seems to be very verbose
> Note 3: Ethernet seems to work (at least one of two ports), USB is broken, no WiFi/Bluetooth is visible, HDMI untested
> 
> So this is some breakthrough demonstrating that we can also handle RiscV devices. 
> 
hmm, Star64, are you (planing to) play around with this thing:
https://pine64.org/documentation/PineTab-V/Features/

Regards,
Andreas