Some days(2024/06) ago I got one ROMA from DC donated for Debian Community. This week I have some time so to try run Debian sid on it.

The system on ROMA was Debian 11 with fixed version riscv64 Debian packages from debian-ports. Until now, we have no debian-ports any more, so this is a very interesting chanllenge.

Refer to

The DC github is here 0, especially for docs which tells you how to flash image to ROMA.

From my observation, there is there image boot mode: emmc, sd and nvme. The default system from emmc(/dev/mmcblk0).

One key is that: riscv+t can boot system from sd, then you can mount devices to do everything you can do.

Some important componemts

GPU drivers: https://github.com/starfive-tech/soft_3rdpart/blob/c43d4fab94b0ef3b492a6382e2282fa7a2695b9b/IMG_GPU/out/img-gpu-powervr-bin-1.19.6345021.tar.gz

mesa: https://github.com/starfive-tech/buildroot/tree/JH7110_VisionFive2_devel/package/mesa3d

Xorg: ？

On debian riscv64, until now we have xfce4 desktop.

tips:

gpu drivers

    
lshw -c display
# to recongize kernel gpu driver, otherwise UNCLAIMED".

Xorg

If you want to debug Desktop env, it is good to start to from startx. Once you do not have any error from xorg, I think you have got it already.

Please also check the log file at "/home/vimer/.local/share/xorg/Xorg.0.log"
# permission issue generally

# normal to check issue from Xorg is from:
/var/log/Xorg.0.log

apt-mark

Due to some packages built from ourself, so we have to apt-mark some package to keep graphic display works

sudo apt-mark hold libegl-mesa0 libgbm1 libglapi-mesa mesa-vulkan-drivers

# partial

graphic

1 wiki

Thanks

Many thanks for DeepComputing which offer the hardware and help from Songsong and RevysOS.