The long-awaited milk-v duo running RTOS system is coming

kkkkk · October 12, 2023, 8:21am

The long-awaited milk-v duo RTOS system is here!!!

On June 6th, 2023, I dug a hole on rt-thread forum and looked for someone who could port rt-smart to milk-v duo. Since the post was made, I received positive feedback from group members and more people joined the group and bought the board. Currently, there are more than 30 risc-v enthusiasts in the group (no indoctrination).

In order to get everyone started (I dug my own hole), I have decided to create the basic BS P for the milk-v duo development board (CV1800B chip). Of course, CV1800B has been officially merged into the RT-Thread main repository, so everyone can taste and experience it. Currently, only rt-smart has been successfully tested and can support msh function. Other functions still need interested people to join in and improve together. (If you think the basic BSP is too bad to play with, you can wait a little longer.)

Repository address: https://github.com/RT-Thread/rt-thread/tree/master/bsp/cv1800b

Below is a brief introduction to the basic situation of the CV1800B BSP (copied from the readme in the BSP).

Overview

CV180ZB/CV1800B/CV1801B is a high-performance, low-power chip for consumer consumer monitoring IP cameras, smart homes, and other product areas, integrating H.264/H.265 video compression codecs and ISP; supporting digital wide dynamic, 3D noise reduction, dehumidification, lens distortion correction and other image enhancement and correction algorithms to provide customers with professional-level video image quality.

Processor core

Main processor RISCV C906 @ 1.0Ghz
- 32KB I-cache, 64KB D-Cache
- Integrated vector (Vector) and floating point (FPU).
Coprocessor RISCV C906 @ 700Mhz
- Integrated floating point (FPU)

Memory interface

Built-in DRAM: DDR2 16bitx1, with a maximum rate of 1333Mbps and a capacity of 512Mbit (64MB)
Support SPI NOR flash interface (1.8V / 3.0V)
- Supports 1, 2, 4 line modes
- Maximum support of 256MByte
Support SPI Nand flash interface (1.8V / 3.0V)
- Supports 1KB/2KB/4KB page (corresponding to a maximum capacity of 16GB/32GB/64GB)
- Uses the ECC module built into the device itself

Peripherals

Up to 26 GPIO pins on the MilkV-Duo 40-pin header provide access to internal peripherals such as SDIO, I2C, PWM, SPI, J-TAG, and UART
Up to 3x I2C
Up to 5x UART
Up to 1x SDIO1
Up to 1x SPI
Up to 2x ADC
Up to 7x PWM
Up to 1x RUN
Up to 1x JTAG
Integrated MAC PHY supports 10/100Mbps full duplex or half duplex mode
An USB Host / device interface

Toolchain Download

Download the toolchain riscv64-unknown-linux-musl-gcc: https://github.com/RT-Thread/toolchains-ci/releases/download/v1.7/riscv64-linux-musleabi_for_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu_latest.tar.bz2

Note:
The current BSP only supports Linux compilation.
After successfully extracting the files, add the local path of the riscv64-unknown-linux-musl-gcc toolchain to the EXEC_PATH in the rtconfig.py file or specify the path through the RTT_EXEC_PATH environment variable.

$ export RTT_EXEC_PATH=/opt/riscv64-linux-musleabi_for_x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin

Compilation

Dependency Installation

$ sudo apt install -y device-tree-compiler

On a Linux platform, you can execute the following:

$ scons --menuconfig

It will automatically download environment-related scripts to the ~/.env directory. Then execute:

$ source ~/.env/env.sh
$ pkgs --update

After updating the software packages, execute scons -j10 or scons -j10 --verbose to compile this board support package. Alternatively, you can compile directly while specifying the toolchain location using the scons --exec-path="GCC toolchain path" command. If the compilation is successful, it will produce the rtthread.elf file.

Once the compilation is complete, the script will automatically call the ./mksdimg.sh script for packaging and generate boot.sd, which is the kernel file for SD card booting.

Running

Divide the SD card into 2 partitions. The first partition is used to store bin files, and the second partition serves as a data storage partition with the FAT32 format.
Copy the fip.bin and boot.sd files from the root directory to the first partition of the SD card. For subsequent firmware updates, you only need to copy the boot.sd file. These files are defined as follows:

fip.bin: A binary file containing fsbl, opensbi, and uboot after packaging.
boot.sd: A binary file containing the kernel after packaging.

After updating boot.sd, power up the device again to view the serial output information.

U-Boot 2021.10 (Jun 26 2023 - 14:09:06 +0800)cvitek_cv180x

DRAM:  63.3 MiB
gd->relocaddr=0x82435000. offset=0x2235000
MMC:   cv-sd@4310000: 0
Loading Environment from <NULL>... OK
In:    serial
Out:   serial
Err:   serial
Net:   
Warning: ethernet@4070000 (eth0) using random MAC address - 62:80:19:6c:d4:64
eth0: ethernet@4070000
Hit any key to stop autoboot:  0 
Boot from SD ...
switch to partitions #0, OK
mmc0 is current device
132692 bytes read in 12 ms (10.5 MiB/s)
## Loading kernel from FIT Image at 81400000 ...
   Using 'config-cv1800b_milkv_duo_sd' configuration
   Trying 'kernel-1' kernel subimage
   Verifying Hash Integrity ... crc32+ OK
## Loading fdt from FIT Image at 81400000 ...
   Using 'config-cv1800b_milkv_duo_sd' configuration
   Trying 'fdt-cv1800b_milkv_duo_sd' fdt subimage
   Verifying Hash Integrity ... sha256+ OK
   Booting using the fdt blob at 0x8141b590
   Uncompressing Kernel Image
   Decompressing 296768 bytes used 42ms
   Loading Device Tree to 0000000081be5000, end 0000000081becb60 ... OK

Starting kernel ...

heap: [0x802766b0 - 0x812766b0]

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Driver Support List

Driver	Support Status	Note
UART	Supported	Default baud rate is 115200

Supported Development Boards

milk-v duo: https://milkv.io/duo 13

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