Built with EMERGENCY_CONSOLE_ENABLED=1 and booted with no identity logged
in, the prompt printed "ok> ok" without end, 1.4 million times in 200
seconds (logs/20261013-210442). sk_console_readline() gave up at once
whenever no identity was present. The production build answers that by
going silent until a login; the bring-up build, which needs no login,
took it as an empty line and asked again. The give-up is now the
production build's only.
Found rehearsing boards/BRINGUP.md; it predates the console change of
c9519173 (the image built from the commit before that did the same).
The riscv64 bring-up build, no thumbdrive, three lines typed
(logs/20261013-235129): one prompt that waits, and 3, 56 and 81.
Acceptance of the production build, one QEMU at a time: amd64
(-235255), aarch64 (-235411), riscv64 (-235620) to the zuse prompt, no
unknown word, hash 0x08873e0f44b7cb2a on all three.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
boards/
One directory per physical target. make boot_image TARGET=<NAME> (repo root) maps the
name to a directory here, reads its board.mk, and builds the single file that goes on
that board's boot medium into build/boards/<board>/.
| TARGET | Directory | ISA | Boot path | Image |
|---|---|---|---|---|
SER5 |
ser5/ |
amd64 | UEFI firmware, removable-media path | GPT + FAT32 ESP: EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI |
RASPI |
raspi/ |
aarch64 | Pi 5 EEPROM firmware, native | MBR + FAT32: config.txt, kernel_2712.img, bcm2712-rpi-5-b.dtb |
MILKV |
milkv/ |
riscv64 | SPI-flash U-Boot + OpenSBI, bootefi |
GPT + FAT32 ESP: EFI/BOOT/BOOTRISCV64.EFI |
ZYNQ7020 |
zynq7020/ |
armv7 | BootROM, BOOT.BIN, U-Boot |
not yet: needs kernel/src/arch/armv7 |
board.mk sets:
BOARD_DESC: one-line description (make boards)BOARD_ARCH: kernel ISA (kernel/src/arch/<arch>)BOARD_BOOT: image recipe inkernel/Makefile(uefi-esp,rpi-native, ...)BOARD_IMAGE: output file name
Disk images are assembled by scripts/mkdiskimage.sh, which needs no root access and no loop
devices. KERNEL_ARGS="..." is written as starforth.cfg (UEFI boards) or cmdline.txt
(Pi 5, where the firmware copies it into /chosen/bootargs). BOOT_IMAGE_SIZE_MIB sets the
image size; the default is 128.
Hardware status: none of these images has been booted on real silicon from this build. The
SER5 image has been booted in QEMU (q35 + OVMF, from its own disk) through POST. The Pi 5
native path (raspi/README.md) and the JH7110 peripherals have still only been checked by
compiling.