Debian Bug report logs - #928724
ITP: opensbi -- RISC-V Open Source Supervisor Binary Interface

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>

To: submit@bugs.debian.org

Subject: ITP: opensbi -- RISC-V Open Source Supervisor Binary Interface

Date: Thu, 09 May 2019 10:06:37 -0700

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Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org, merker@debian.org, debian-riscv@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : opensbi
  Version         : 0.3+
  Upstream Author : Anup Patel/Western Digital, other contributors
* URL             : https://github.com/riscv/opensbi
* License         : BSD-2, Apache 2.0, GPL-2+
  Programming Lang: C
  Description     : RISC-V Open Source Supervisor Binary Interface

The **RISC-V Supervisor Binary Interface (SBI)** is the recommended interface
between:

1. A platform-specific firmware running in M-mode and a bootloader, a
   hypervisor or a general-purpose OS executing in S-mode or HS-mode.
2. A hypervisor running in HS-mode and a bootloader or a general-purpose OS
   executing in VS-mode.

The *RISC-V SBI specification* is maintained as an independent project by the
RISC-V Foundation on [Github] (https://github.com/riscv/riscv-sbi-doc).

The goal of the OpenSBI project is to provide an open-source reference
implementation of the RISC-V SBI specifications for platform-specific firmwares
executing in M-mode (case 1 mentioned above). An OpenSBI implementation can be
easily extended by RISC-V platform and system-on-chip vendors to fit a
particular hardware configuration.

...

An SBI implementation is needed in order to boot RISC-V systems. This
package initially will at least enable loading u-boot in qemu
sufficient to boot a linux kernel and initramfs.


A similar project is the RISC-V Proxy Kernel and Boot Loader
(a.k.a. BBL):

  https://github.com/riscv/riscv-pk

But BBL requires a compilation step to embed the bootloader and/or
kernel into a payload every time you upgrade the kernel and/or
bootloader. It is possible with OpenSBI to load an arbitrary payload
without requiring a compilation step in some cases (e.g. qemu).


Karsten Merker has offered to co-maintain (who has also been
contributing upstream); not sure if we'll need a team just yet.


Initial rough cut of packaging:

  https://salsa.debian.org/vagrant/opensbi

It cross-compiles an arch:all firmware image usable with qemu+u-boot.

Help with improving the package description and a few remaining
lintian issues would be great!


live well,
  vagrant

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Message #10 received at 928724-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>

To: 928724-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#928724: fixed in opensbi 0.3+61.392749f-1

Date: Fri, 17 May 2019 18:00:10 +0000

Source: opensbi
Source-Version: 0.3+61.392749f-1

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
opensbi, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 928724@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org> (supplier of updated opensbi package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 12 May 2019 19:40:04 -0700
Source: opensbi
Binary: opensbi
Architecture: source all
Version: 0.3+61.392749f-1
Distribution: experimental
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Changed-By: Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@debian.org>
Description:
 opensbi    - RISC-V Open Source Supervisor Binary Interface
Closes: 928724
Changes:
 opensbi (0.3+61.392749f-1) experimental; urgency=low
 .
   * Initial release based on git commit 243a5e0 (Closes: #928724).
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