VisionFive2 Software v6.0.0

What's new

• Support JH7110 SDK v6.0.0;
• Support VisionFive 2 Lite board;

Linux kernel 6.12:

• Support automatic selection and loading of the corresponding DTB based on EEPROM information (to support VisionFive 2 Lite SBC; VF2 will load DTB by default);
• Support IMX296 sensor;
• Support BL-M8800DS2-40 Wi-Fi/BT module;

U-boot:

• Disable unused drivers for VisionFive 2 board to reduce_bootup_time;
• Support loading u-boot through uart ymodem;
• Update eeprom data format version to v3(add wifi_bt field in ATOM4, add "mac wifi_bt <?>" command);
• Support automatic selection and loading of the corresponding DTB based on EEPROM information (to support VisionFive 2 Lite SBC; VF2 will load DTB by default);

OpenSBI:

• Disable unused drivers for VisionFive 2 board to reduce_bootup_time;

Soft_3rdpart:

• Add 6.12 ethercat support;

Fixed Issues:

• Fix the issue of packet loss in ipms CAN reception and transmission;
• Buildroot: Replaced the broken Mesa3D download link;
• Linux kernel 6.6 & 6.12: Fixed ac108 recording failure;

Known Issues:

• Only 22.05K/44.1K audio through PWMDAC are obviously out of sync when playing video/audio file;
• Some TF cards may have compatibility issues;
• Segmentation fault when running unit tests in DDK 1.19;
• OpenCL CTS segmentation fault in DDK 1.19;
• Failure on 8 test cases of dEQP-VK.memory and dEQP-VK.pipeline.monolithic for the GPU Vulkan CTS test; (Pass: 391847 cases, Not supported: 1164574 cases );
• Crypto module hangs intermittently when 6.6 kernel boot-up( workaround: disable RSA module );
• AC108 cannot record audio on kernel 6.12;

Ubuntu(24.04) - 202510

What's New:

• Support VisionFive 2 and VisionFive 2 Lite board(Only kernel v6.12);
• Support automatic selection and loading of the corresponding DTB based on EEPROM information (to support VisionFive 2 Lite SBC; VF2 will load DTB by default);
• Support booting a single image from SD/eMMC/NVMe

Apt Repo

deb https://debianrepo-t.starfivetech.com/ubuntu starfive-ubuntu noble
deb https://debianrepo-t.starfivetech.com/VF2-Lite VisionFive2 contrib restricted

Notes:

For the VisionFive 2 Lite board, it is recommended to implement the script update-ubuntu.sh to resolve the Bluetooth instability issue.

Current List of Packages Provided:

• chromium
• clutter-gst-3.0
• codec (omx-il,wave511,wave420l,codaj12)
• cogl
• ffmpeg
• firefox
• firmware (aic8800,aic8800d80-sdio-wifi,ap6256,ecr6600u,img-pvr-rogue,rtl8852bu-bluetooth,wave511)
• gdm3
• glmark2
• gnome-shell
• gst-omx
• gstreamer
• imagecp
• libcamera-apps
• libcamera
• hailort (libhailort,hailort-driver-module,tappas)
• libreoffice
• libsdl2
• mesa
• nwjs
• opencv
• openplc
• pipewire
• power-profiles-daemon
• qt 5.15.13
• u-boot-menu
• v4l2test (CSI camera script)
• v8
• vlc
• vf2_components(spl-uboot,vpu-modules,linux-image--starfive,linux-headers--starfive)

VisionFive2 Software v5.14.1

What's new

• Support JH7110 SDK v5.14.1;

Fixed Issues

• USB: Fix usb 2.0 host detection failure;

Known Issues

• Only 22.05K/44.1K audio through PWMDAC are obviously out of sync when playing video/audio file;
• Some TF cards may have compatibility issues;
• Segmentation fault when running unit tests in DDK 1.19;
• OpenCL CTS segmentation fault in DDK 1.19;
• Failure on 8 test cases of dEQP-VK.memory and dEQP-VK.pipeline.monolithic for the GPU Vulkan CTS test; (Pass: 391847 cases, Not supported: 1164574 cases );
• Crypto module hangs intermittently when 6.6 kernel boot-up( workaround: disable RSA module );
• AC108 cannot record audio on kernel 6.12;

VisionFive2 Software v5.14.0

What's new

• Support JH7110 SDK v5.14.0;
• Support Linux Kernel 5.15.0, 6.6.20 and 6.12.5;
• Update libv4l for support v4l2 framework test in kernel 6.12.5;
• Add Chinese display support.

Fixed Issues

• Phy: fix network LED inactive in u-boot after reboot on kernel 6.6;
• GMAC: fix the issue of 'Failed to reset the dma' when using 'ifconfig ethX down';
• Sensor: fix incorrect acceleration orientation issue of SC7A20 gsensor for Radxa 8/10-inch MIPI display;

Known Issues

• Only 22.05K/44.1K audio through PWMDAC are obviously out of sync when playing video/audio file;
• Some TF cards may have compatibility issues;
• Segmentation fault when running unit tests in DDK 1.19;
• OpenCL CTS segmentation fault in DDK 1.19;
• Failure on 8 test cases of dEQP-VK.memory and dEQP-VK.pipeline.monolithic for the GPU Vulkan CTS test; (Pass: 391847 cases, Not supported: 1164574 cases );
• Crypto module hangs intermittently when 6.6 kernel boot-up( workaround: disable RSA module );
• AC108 cannot record audio on kernel 6.12;

VisionFive2 Software v5.13.1

What's new

• Support JH7110 SDK v5.13.1;
• Support VisionFive2 v1.2A & v1.3B SBC;
• Support Linux Kernel 5.15.0 and 6.6.20;
• Add amp ipi interrupt and rpmsg driver support;
• Add RT-Thread AMP (running on one U74 core) support;
• Add MCU core driver and sample code support;
• Significantly reduces system startup time(from 40s down to 15s);
• Modify buildroot config to download linux header from local repo;

Fixed Issues

• JPU: fix array index out of range in irq handler;
• ENC: add retry counter to avoid query status failure in RTlinux;
• Package/sf-gst-omx: Fix omxmjpegdec decoder cannot set the frame rate;
• ALSA: Drop 2s sleep before print ALSA device list;
• i2c: designware_i2c: Revert a part of commit "i2c:desigware-snps: add i2c clock config";
• Clk: starfive: jh7110: Drop i2c core clock;
• Pinctrl: starfive: fix gpio level-triggered interrupt exception;
• phy: starfive: jh7110-usb: Fix link configuration to controller;

Known Issues

• Only 22.05K/44.1K audio through PWMDAC are obviously out of sync when playing video/audio file;
• Some TF cards may have compatibility issues;
• Segmentation fault when running unit tests in DDK 1.19;
• OpenCL CTS segmentation fault in DDK 1.19;
• Failure on 8 test cases of dEQP-VK.memory and dEQP-VK.pipeline.monolithic for the GPU Vulkan CTS test; (Pass: 391847 cases, Not supported: 1164574 cases );
• Crypto module hangs intermittently when 6.6 kernel boot-up( workaround: disable RSA module );

VisionFive2 Software v5.12.0

What's new

• Support JH7110 SDK v5.12.0;
• Support VisionFive2 v1.2A & v1.3B SBC;
• Support Linux Kernel 5.15.0 and 6.6.20;
• Add dts overlay for CAN;
• Add amp dts node in u-boot；
• Package/libkcapi: bump to version 1.5.0;

Fixed Issues

• Support clear ioconfig register bit 0;
• libcamera: fix the distinguish between GPU/DC nodes;
• To consistency with the mainline, rename jh7110-visionfive-v2-xx.dts to jh7110-starfive-visionfive-2-xx.dts;
• Add mipi remove mechanism and drop dc interrupt to fix crash and mipi display issue;
• Backport the patches 3c69240 from kernel 6.7 to fix the hibernation resume crash issue;

Known Issues

• Only 22.05K/44.1K audio through PWMDAC are obviously out of sync when playing video/audio file;
• Some TF cards may have compatibility issues;
• Segmentation fault when running unit tests in DDK 1.19;
• OpenCL CTS segmentation fault in DDK 1.19;
• Failure on 8 test cases of dEQP-VK.memory and dEQP-VK.pipeline.monolithic for the GPU Vulkan CTS test; (Pass: 391847 cases, Not supported: 1164574 cases );
• Crypto module hangs intermittently when 6.6 kernel boot-up( workaround: disable RSA module );

VisionFive2 Software v5.11.3

What's new

• Support JH7110 SDK v5.11.3;
• Support VisionFive2 v1.2A & 1.3B SBC;
• Support Linux Kernel 5.15.0 and 6.1.31;
• Support ISP tuning server based on libcamera;
• Support transfer files by Bluetooth;
• Add SiFive Private L2 cache and PMU driver;
• Add wave511 v4l2 driver lkml version 14;
• Optimize MIPI-DSI driver to match the dsi timming parameters;
• Implement a new method to flush L2 cache(Good for the size larger than 512KB);
• Enable CONFIG_TUN for OpenVPN/Tailscal;
• Enabled CONFIG_BINFMT_MISC;

Fixed Issues

• MIPI-CSI:
  • The audio playback is noisy when using the imx219 sensor and playing audio at the same time;
  • The error message is always printed when using OV4689 sensor;
• GPU:
  • Firmware loads failure for 2GB DDR SBC;
  • Grainy screen after log-in desktop;
• Display:
  • Fixed an issue where 4K display flashing occasionally;
  • Fixed an issue where Weston desktop wake up failure when only HDMI was connected;
  • Fixed an issue where unstable frame rate on 4K@30fps desktop;
• libcamera-app:
  • Frames drop in full screen mode;
• EtherCAT Master：
  • Optimize the compilation and packaging logic of EtherCAT master;
• EEPROM:
  • Change pagesize to support GT24C02B/GT24C02A;
• Buildroot:
  • Update the version of libkcapi to fix the build issue;

Known Issues

• Only 22.05K/44.1K audio through PWMDAC are obviously out of sync when playing video/audio file;
• Some TF cards may have compatibility issues;
• Segmentation fault when running unit tests in DDK 1.19;
• OpenCL CTS segmentation fault in DDK 1.19;
• Failure on 8 test cases of dEQP-VK.memory and dEQP-VK.pipeline.monolithic for the GPU Vulkan CTS test; (Pass: 391847 cases, Not supported: 1164574 cases );

VisionFive2 Software v5.10.3

What's new

• Support JH7110 SDK v5.10.3;
• Support VisionFive2 v1.2A & 1.3B SBC;
• Support Linux Kernel 5.15.0 and 6.1.31;
• Add IMX708 ISP driver;
• Add serveral packages: curl, ntp, openssl, ca certificates, GNUTLS_OPENSSL, DOSFSTOOLS;
• Add bin2 chip support;

Fixed Issues

• CAN: add interface to free the buffer;
• WAVE5:
  • Fix timestamping issue in the decoder;
  • Fix decoder dma buffer unconsistency in samll buffer size;
• Fix vin hibernation problem by restoring delay in encoder_enable();
• Libcamera display issue:
  • zoom the input image to fit the screen for DRM preview;
  • Queue one more buffer to the isp pipeline;
• Bluetooth issue:
  • add aic8800 bluetooth driver that can support sco profile;
  • add rfkill device node to fix dbus communication issue;
• EtherCAT Master：
  • Modify the logic of the sample program;
  • Add compiling option for rootfs;

Known Issues

• Only 22.05K/44.1K audio through PWMDAC are obviously out of sync when playing video/audio file;
• Some TF cards may have compatibility issues;
• Segmentation fault when running unit tests in DDK 1.19;
• OpenCL CTS segmentation fault in DDK 1.19;
• Failure on 8 test cases of dEQP-VK.memory and dEQP-VK.pipeline.monolithic for the GPU Vulkan CTS test; (Pass: 391847 cases, Not supported: 1164574 cases );

VisionFive2 Software v3.9.3

What's new

• Support JH7110 SDK v5.9.3;
• Support VisionFive2 v1.2A & 1.3B SBC;
• Support Linux Kernel 5.15.0 and 6.1.31;
• Support libcamera/libcamera-apps;
  • Add necessary V4L2 controls for ISP;
  • Add FRAME_SYNC event to the SC sub-device;
• Add EtherCAT master applications;

Fixed Issues

• OMX: fix yuv channel alignment issues in some resolution;
• ISP: fix some hardcode on search path and ss0/ss1 output resolutions;
• ISP compatible issue between std_isp_ctl and libcamera;
• Libcamera: fix some libcamera-vid and libcamera-still issues;
• Update DC8200 logic to boost desktop performance upto 4k30fps;
• Camera image cannot be output to MIPI LCD via v4l2test command;

Known Issues

• Only 22.05K/44.1K audio through PWMDAC are obviously out of sync when playing video/audio file;
• Some TF cards may have compatibility issues;
• Segmentation fault when running unit tests in DDK 1.19;
• OpenCL CTS segmentation fault in DDK 1.19;
• Failure on 8 test cases of dEQP-VK.memory and dEQP-VK.pipeline.monolithic for the GPU Vulkan CTS test; (Pass: 391847 cases, Not supported: 1164574 cases );
• Libcamera-apps preview under weston desktop will appear random stripes and frame drop;
• Libcamera-raw and libcamera-vid saving 480P raw and mjpeg files will appear random stripes;

VisionFive2 Software v3.8.2

What's new

• Support JH7110 SDK v5.8.2;
• Support VisionFive2 v1.2A & 1.3B SBC;
• Support Linux Kernel 5.15.0 and 6.1.31;
• Add a QSPI Flash MTD partition named “uboot-env”;
• Support Vulkan v1.3.1;
• Support BT function for WIFI/BT dongle AIC8800;

Fixed Issues

• The Compatibility Issue with USB Flash Drive in U-Boot;
• The issue where the bottom of 1080P video output from the decoder was blurr;
• OMX decoder: Distinguish sliceHeight calculation methods of avc and hevc;
• Failure on 4 test cases of dEQP-VK.renderpass2 for the GPU Vulkan CTS test;
• Compilation warning issue on Kernel 6.1;

Known Issues

• Only 22.05K/44.1K audio through PWMDAC are obviously out of sync when playing video/audio file;
• Camera image cannot be output to MIPI LCD via v4l2test command;
• Some TF cards may have compatibility issues;
• Segmentation fault when running unit tests in DDK 1.19;
• OpenCL CTS segmentation fault in DDK 1.19;
• Failure on 8 test cases of dEQP-VK.memory and dEQP-VK.pipeline.monolithic for the GPU Vulkan CTS test;
  (Pass: 391847 cases, Not supported: 1164574 cases )

What's Next

• libcamera support;
• Bug fix;