mention the torrent download in the readme

[omac777]

There is a torrent file that exists in the google drive directory: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jljq2s1w9HXlw8cST0nMS-U2DKfk1iEB

There are already 5 peers seeding the torrent so the downloads are coming in quickly. I'll leave my peer running as a seed as well. The community is awesome.

[archanox]

This repo is for the buildroot image, not Debian.

[omac777]

I'm confused there's Release_Notes_for_Debian_Image55.pdf in the folder that ships with that directory and torrent. I converted that pdf to a text file using pdftotext so that you can read it.

pdftotext Release_Notes_for_Debian_Image55.pdf Release_Notes_for_Debian_Image55.txt

It says it's Debian:

Release Notes for Debian on VisionFive 2
What's New
Supported SBC: VF2 v1.2A
Based on Linux kernel 5.15 (VisionFive2 Software tag: v2.3.0);
Supported xfce4 desktop;
Added Libre Office V7.3.4.2
Added NWjs module version 0.65.1
Added Firefox 105.0 Development build
Added Qt 5.15.2
Added ffmpeg 4.4.1
Added ffmpeg vpu driver with source
Added GStreamer version 1.18.5

Known Issues / Limitation
Auto-selection of 4GB/8GB ddr in uboot
Eth0 cannot be assigned IP address(NOTE: but eth1 can be assigned an ip address)
Mosaic pictures after login
Mosaic cursor
xeglinfo crashes X server
Qt modules qtwebengine failed to build
Firefox hardware acceleration is not working
Libreoffice When opening Forms or Tables in an .odb file, there would be an error "The connection to
the data source could not be established."
HDMI Audio not working
NWjs Filesystem access APIs failed.
NWjs mp3 encoder failed to be detected
Failure on dual display [MIPI+HDMI]
4K monitor does not display properly
Boot flow(boot from SD or eMMC) are not supported yet
Kernel crash when on high usage;

Fixed Issues
NWjs libnode needs to be compiled with debug mode
ffmpeg omx_hevc decode for 4K 3840*2160 occasionally fails
ffplay decode and display using hard omx decoder will crash after a few second

History
v1.0:
1. Release Debian image(starfive-jh7110-VF2-VF2_515_v2.3.0-55.img)
2. Update known&fixed issues;

[omac777]

Ok I see what you mean. I found something in:

/home/davidm/visionfive2prep/VisionFive2/work/buildroot_initramfs/images/rootfs.tar

cat ./usr/lib/os-release

NAME=Buildroot
VERSION=VF2_v2.4.4
ID=buildroot
VERSION_ID=2021.11
PRETTY_NAME="Buildroot 2021.11"

I guess it's time I get busy reading: https://nightly.buildroot.org/manual.pdf LOL

This is much different from using Debian Live-Build: https://terkeyberger.wordpress.com/2022/03/07/live-build-how-to-build-an-installable-debian-10-buster-live-cd/ https://live-team.pages.debian.net/live-manual/html/live-manual/examples.en.html and Archlinux archiso: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/archiso

I've never built an arm rootfs, but I've had to extract a rootfs onto an sdcard for the odroid-c2: https://archlinuxarm.org/platforms/armv8/amlogic/odroid-c2 I did find the recipe to build the rootfs for odroid-c2 as a point of reference however: https://forum.odroid.com/viewtopic.php?t=20662

[omac777]

I noticed a few people are downloading the image 55 which is ok because they still need it I think.

Also note there is a new torrent for image 69. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LbQMSP9ZSxA3IIWX9ukRtoOI1n-Fbcxo/view?usp=share_link