Incomplete bsp description/bringup explanation

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I am about to port seL4 to Visionfive 2 (v1.3b) . Since this board has the same SoC like Star64, I used it as a starting point.

One major issue I had to deal with is, that the description for the Star64 lacks some essential steps.

1. The description is mainly based on star64_sdcard, but for Booting via microSD card it does not explain how to get the sel4 image on the sd card. I changed the genimage.cfg to create a partition holding the image.

image data.vfat {
  vfat {
    files = {
		"sel4test-driver-image-riscv-star64"
    }
  }
  size = 8M
}

image sdcard.img {
	hdimage {
		gpt = true
	}

	partition spl {
		image = "u-boot/spl/u-boot-spl.bin.normal.out"
		partition-type-uuid = 2E54B353-1271-4842-806F-E436D6AF6985
		offset = 2M
		size = 2M
	}

	partition uboot {
		image = "build/opensbi_uboot_payload.img"
		partition-type-uuid = 5B193300-FC78-40CD-8002-E86C45580B47
		offset = 4M
		size = 4M
	}

	partition fatdata {
		image = "data.vfat"
	}
}

2. The image generated by the sel4test suit contains its own openSBI partition. At least for the new target visionfive2-1.3b, I had to run dd if=images/sel4test-driver-image-riscv-visionfive2-1.3b of=images/temp.image bs=1024 skip=2048 to omit the first 2 MiB (openSBI). The resulting file could be loaded to 0x60000000 like the description said.

I can not verify that it behaves the same way on Star64 (I do not have a board) but I can tell that sel4test-driver-image-riscv-star64 starts with openSBI, too. It might be possible to skip the dd step and adjust the addresses in the u-boot console or change the build behavior of sel4test for the star64 target.

I did not check thoroughly on all supported targets but I can imagine that similar information is missing for other targets. I hope this helps others with first steps on seL4 :)

:~) now I continue debugging do get visionfive 2 running