2024.09.00-HFP550

Release Notes for 2024.09.00-HFP550

2024.09.00-HFP550

This is the first release for the HiFive Premier P550 board

• Support for new MACHINE ("hifive-premier-p550") for HiFive Premier P550 boards. This is the only machine supported in this release.
• U-Boot version is 2024.01.
• OpenSBI version is 1.4.
• Kernel version is 6.6.21.
• Defined new DISTRO_NAME, DISTRO_VERSION and DISTRO_CODENAME.
• Only Xfce4 desktop images are supported.
• eMMC and SD Card are supported as boot media.
• The following images in DEPLOYDIR are required for flashing on the board.
  • bootloader_ddr5_secboot.bin - Bootchain image which comprises of DDR firware, second boot firmware, U-Boot and OpenSBI.
  • boot.vfat - vfat image for kernel. This includes kernel Image, DTB and extlinux.
  • demo-coreip-xfce4-hifive-premier-p550.rootfs.ext4.xz - Compressed rootfs image for eMMC.
  • demo-coreip-xfce4-hifive-premier-p550.rootfs.wic.xz - Compressed image for SD card.
• Irrespective of boot media, bootchain is always flashed to SPI Flash.
• EsBurnTool is the tool required to flash images to eMMC. This tool can be found over tools repository.
• eMMC boot and root partitions can also be flashed with fastboot tool.
• Bootable SD Card can be prepared by writing the .wic image using dd command.

Known Issues

• Occassional bus error reported from memory region 0x2000_0000-0x3FFF_FFFF. These will addressed in the subsequent releases.
• On executing a reboot command with external GFX connected, sometimes, the board reboot hangs.
• Bus error reported from UART driver at startup. This will be addressed in the subsequent releases.

Instructions to build assets

pip install --user kas

mkdir 2024.09.00-hfp550 && cd 2024.09.00-hfp550

git clone https://github.com/sifive/freedom-u-sdk.git -b 2024.09.00-HFP550

kas build ./freedom-u-sdk/scripts/kas/hifive-premier-p550.yml