HiFive Unmatched is Launched!

[spikerguy (F. K)]

@jimw

To boot on the HiFive Unmatched I think you just need a new kernel, and optionally a new u-boot if you want to boot from hard disk (nvme) instead of SDcard. And worst case maybe also a new openSBI if openSBI is hardware dependent. I’m not a linux kernel guy so I don’t know the details. Otherwise the root file systems should be the same, and those already exist for most distros. I think that Fedora and Debian both have already booted on the board, but not using the standard packages since we are still upstreaming patches. It shouldn’t be hard for them to make packages that boot on HiFive Unmatched, they just need to add a few extra patches.

I am fully aware of what is needed to get it to boot more important than getting it to boot is the base packages needed for risc-v architecture.

It is good to know that many distro maintainers received their boards, I hope it includes Arch Linux.
It is good to see device support being pushed upstream.

Great work.