RISC-V Generic Demo

This demo is intended to be generic enough to run on different (CHERI-)RISC-V configurations, multilibs, platforms, apps, etc. It has been tested on FPGA/F1, Spike, QEMU, Piccolo and Sail.

This repo/demo is NOT standalone and is expected to be a submodule part of a classical FreeRTOS distribution.

Build

The demo builds on Linux-based systems using WAF build system. There are two ways to build the demo: either directly with WAF, or with cheribuild. cheribuild makes it easier to build and install all the required toolchains and dependencies to build FreeRTOS with this demo.

To build CheriFreeRTOS (FreeRTOS with CHERI support to provide memory safety), cheribuild knows how to build all the toolchain and dependencies with CHERI support, so it is advised to be used rather than building them yourself.

LLVM

The main CHERI-RISC-V development is based on LLVM. Unlike while building with GCC, newlib (libc) and compiler-rt (corresponds to libgcc) need to be first built as dependencies for FreeRTOS. cheribuild can build both for you and it is described below.

Using cheribuild

Clone cheribuild and checkout hmka2 branch

$ git clone git@github.com:CTSRD-CHERI/cheribuild.git -b hmka2
$ cd cheribuild

Build all the dependencies cheribuild requires in the README Pre-Build Setup section.

Vanilla RISC-V (no CHERI)

GCC and/or LLVM can be used to build vanilla RISC-V FreeRTOS:

To build FreeRTOS with GCC, make sure riscv64-unknown-elf-gcc is in your $PATH:

./cheribuild.py freertos-baremetal-riscv64 --freertos/prog main_servers --freertos/toolchain gcc --freertos/platform qemu_virt -d

Change main_servers with your intended demo (e.g., aws_ota, main_blinky, etc)

Ignore the next steps if you don't want to build with LLVM.

To build this demo with LLVM with all of its dependencies run:

./cheribuild.py freertos-baremetal-riscv64 --freertos/prog main_servers --freertos/platform qemu_virt -d

Change main_servers with your intended demo (e.g., aws_ota, main_blinky, etc) The -d flag will build all dependencies.

This builds and installs:

   llvm-native
   newlib-baremetal-riscv64
   compiler-rt-builtins-baremetal-riscv64
   freertos-baremetal-riscv64

Otherwise build each dependency separately:

$ ./cheribuild.py llvm
$ ./cheribuild.py newlib-baremetal-riscv64
$ ./cheribuild.py compiler-rt-builtins-baremetal-riscv64
$ ./cheribuild.py freertos-baremetal-riscv64 --freertos/prog main_servers --freertos/platform qemu_virt

To run a demo on QEMU:

Install QEMU if you don't have it already:

./cheribuild.py qemu

Run:

./cheribuild.py run-freertos-baremetal-riscv64 --run-freertos/prog main_servers

Using WAF

Clone FreeRTOS distribution along with its submodules:

$ git clone --single-branch --branch hmka2 git@github.com:CTSRD-CHERI/FreeRTOS.git --recurse-submodules
$ cd FreeRTOS/FreeRTOS/Demo/RISC-V-Generic/

Building with GCC

$ ./waf configure --program-path=$PROGRAM_PATH --program=$DEMO_NAME --toolchain=gcc --riscv-platform=$PLATFORM build

An example how to build main_servers demo (HTTP, CLI, FTP, TFTP) to run on QEMU/virt platform:

$ ./waf configure --program-path=demo/servers --program=main_servers --toolchain=gcc --riscv-platform=qemu_virt build

An example how to build AWS-OTA demo (MQTT, MBedTLS, TCP/IP, OTA, etc) to run on QEMU/virt platform:

$ ./waf configure --program-path=coreMQTT-Agent --program=aws_ota --toolchain=gcc --riscv-platform=qemu_virt build

Building with LLVM

Assuming you built and installed both newlib and compiler-rt yourself to $PATH_TO_NEWLIB and $PATH_TO_COMPILER respectively:

$ LDFLAGS=-L$PATH_TO_COMPILERT ./waf configure --program-path=$PROGRAM_PATH --program=$DEMO_NAME --riscv-platform=$PLATFORM --sysroot=$PATH_TO_NEWLIB build

Note that --toolchain=llvm is the default, hence it is not passed.