How to run Linux on RISC-V (with open hardware and open source FPGA tools)

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Demonstrates that Linux boots on a soft RISC‑V core loaded into an ECP5 FPGA using VexRiscv, LiteX, Migen and the open toolchain from Project Trellis; team loads a 32 MB SDRAM cartridge onto a 45k‑LUT Hackaday badge, boots the kernel over serial and gets a working shell and VGA output. Initial boot takes ~300 seconds; a cache‑width patch cuts it to ~30 seconds. Notes hardware options from a $1,000 HiFive Unleashed board to a $13 Kendryte K210 dev board with 8 MB.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:51Linux on Open Source Hardware with Open Source chip design
3. 9:56RISC-V and Industry
4. 17:03SiFive FE310 microcontroller
5. 19:26The current boot flow for Fedora on RISC-V
6. 26:40Open Source toolchains for FPGAS
7. 30:26Team Linux on Badge
8. 32:46Designing Hardware in Python?
9. 33:09Python HDL?
10. 33:42Blink Led - Migen
11. 46:47Open Source ECP5 boards
12. 47:11Want to learn FPGAs? Try Fomu!

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