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LithosAnanake/boards
rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5 1a4b163861 feat(boards): both systems on every board image, chosen at boot -- system=v3 or system=v4
boards/BRINGUP.md A6, FABRIC-3 SXLIII (ruled: one image, switch at boot).
A STARFORTH_V4 kernel carries v3 too; system= in the boot arguments
chooses, else the build's default (V4_DEFAULT: 1 for plain STARFORTH_V4
builds as before, 0 for board images).  make boot_image builds both and
always writes starforth.cfg / cmdline.txt with system=v3 first, and cleans
its ISA's objects first -- that clean was removing build/<arch>/SER5, not
the kernel's objects, until fixed here.

Each ISA: v3 by default (hash unchanged), v4 with system=v4 (538/538).
The SER5 image under OVMF: v3 as built, v4 after a one-word edit on it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-14 15:11:47 -04:00
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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 in kernel/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.