2020.11.00

This release includes major changes compared previous Freedom Unleashed SDK and thus is experimental at this stage. Main changes include:

• kernel updated to v5.8.18 and additional fixes applied on top:

  • [PATCH v4 1/1] i2c: ocores: fix polling mode workaround on FU540-C000 SoC
    https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-riscv/2020-October/002512.html

  • [PATCH] irqchip/sifive-plic: Fix broken irq_set_affinity() callback
    https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-riscv/2020-October/002498.html

  • [RFC PATCH] irqchip/sifive-plic: Fix getting wrong chip_data when interrupt is hierarchy
    https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-riscv/2020-October/002634.html

• stress-ng updated to 0.11.23.

• GDB updated to 10.1 (incl. gdbserver support for riscv64).

• x86_64 was added back for QEMU targets (needed for native SDK builds).

• Added all built Perl modules (perl-modules package).

• Man (Manual) pages are now working properly (man-pages and man-db packages were added).

• GNU TLS and OpenSSL utilities are installed (gnutls-bin and openssl-bin packages were added).

• wireless-regdb regulatory database was added for WiFi.

• LLVM/Clang 11 packages are now included in all the disk images:

  • clang

  • clang-dev

  • clang-libllvm

  • clang-staticdev

  • libclang

  • compiler-rt

  • compiler-rt-dev

  • compiler-rt-staticdev

  • ldd

  • libcxx

  • libcxx-dev

  • libcxx-staticdev

  • openmp

• Clang is now included into native SDK builds.

Known Issues

1. Avoid overclocking SoC using CPUFreq if you are using HiFive Unleashed Expansion Board from Microsemi as this will hang the board. Hard reset will be required.

2. If Xfce4 desktop disk image is used with HiFive Unleashed Expansion Board and GPU then rebooting is required after the 1st boot.