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Compiling Haiku for RISCV64

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Haiku can be compiled for devices using the RISC-V 64bit processor architecture. (RV64GC)

Please ensure that you have obtained a copy of Haiku’s source code as described in Get the Haiku Source Code if you have not already done so.

Unstable
The state of the RISC-V port is early. Only the bootloader currently runs.

Create a compiler toolchain

Building the RISCV64 compiler toolchain is quite easy using Haiku’s configure tool.

For a complete list of flags for the configure script, see Haiku’s Configure Options

  1. Perform a git clone haiku and buildtools
  2. Within the haiku source directory, create your workspace for RISCV64 via mkdir generated.riscv64; cd generated.riscv64
  3. Run configure to build your RISCV64 toolchain. ../configure --use-gcc-pipe -j4 --cross-tools-source ../../buildtools --build-cross-tools riscv64

Building a filesystem image

Once you have a complete RISCV64 toolchain, you can build a Haiku filesystem image via jam -j2 -q @minimum-mmc

UEFI Bios
The generated filesystem image can be booted under a RISCV64 UEFI BIOS

Emulating Haiku

The RISCV64 images can be emulated in QEMU with an EFI firmware like U-Boot.

Emulating Haiku with U-Boot firmware, using the unified haiku-mmc.image image file:

qemu-system-riscv64 -kernel u-boot.bin -M virt -m 2048 \
	-device virtio-blk-device,drive=x0,bus=virtio-mmio-bus.0 \
	-drive file=haiku-mmc.image,if=none,format=raw,id=x0 \
	-device usb-ehci,id=ehci -device usb-tablet -device usb-kbd \
	-device ati-vga -serial stdio