RISC-V Emulator and Linux System from Scratch

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This repository provides source code for a RISC-V emulator and a tutorial to build a minimal Linux system from scratch, including device emulation and WebAssembly support.

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WerWolv/riscv-emulator

Source: https://github.com/WerWolv/riscv-emulator

RISC-V Emulator and Linux System from Scratch

This repo contains all the source code required to follow the blog post at https://werwolv.net/posts/linux_bringup/

Source Code

  • /lib contains the entire rv32ima instruction set emulator code as well as a minimal set of emulated devices
  • /main contains the configuration for our machine and functions exposed for WebAssembly use

Configuration

All the config files required to build Linux can be found in /boot. The main executable also expects all the built binaries to be in the boot folder.

  • riscv32-unknown-linux-gnu.config is the crosstool-ng toolchain config file
  • riscv_emulator_defconfig is the Linux Kernel config file
  • device_tree.dts is the minimal device tree
    • Can be compiled to a dtb using dtc -I dts -O dtb device_tree.dts -o device_tree.dtb
  • init.c is the init program
    • Can be compiled using riscv32-unknown-linux-gnu-gcc -static init.c -o init
  • initramfs.txt is the gen_init_cpio config file to generate the initramfs
    • Can be compiled to a cpio using usr/gen_init_cpio initramfs.txt -o initramfs.cpio

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