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

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

> Am 07.02.2026 um 16:12 schrieb Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info>:
> 
> On Sat, 7 Feb 2026 15:17:47 +0100
> "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com <mailto: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/

Not really... Just with:

https://wiki.pine64.org/wiki/STAR64

But ideas and suggestions are always welcome!

BR,
Nikolaus

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