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 Sipeed MAIXDUINO Board
 ======================

 The Sipeed MAIXDUINO board is a dual-core RISC-V 64-bits board based on the
 Canaan Kendryte K210 SoC. This board has the same form factor as the Arduino
 UNO board.

 Prerequisite
 ------------

 In order to use the kflash utility to program this board, the user must have
 access to the board USB serial device file. The simplest way to do this is to
 add your user to the same group as this device file. Assume the device file is
 /dev/ttyUSB0, first identify the device group name. In most cases, it is
 either "dialout" or "uucp". Also verify that read-write access is enabled for
 the group:

 ```
 $ ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0
 crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 May 26 13:48 /dev/ttyUSB0
 ```

 Then add yourself to that group (dialout in this example):

 ```
 $ sudo usermod -a -G dialout $(whoami)
 ```

 To enable the above, it is sometimes necessary to logout and login again.

 Buildroot Configuration
 -----------------------

 Two buildroot configurations are provided:

 (1) Direct Linux Kernel Boot

 This is defined by the sipeed_maixduino_defconfig configuration. This
 configuration allows building a bootable kernel image with a built-in initramfs
 root file system (the board SD card is not used). The built kernel image can be
 flashed directly to the board ROM for direct booting. No boot loader is
 required.

 (2) U-Boot SD-Card Boot

 The sipeed_maixduino_sdcard_defconfig configuration allows building a kernel
 image with the root file system on the board SD card. U-Boot is used as the
 boot loader.

 Note: U-Boot does not natively support the Sipeed MAIXDUINO board. However, the
 board and device tree differences with the Sipeed MAIX-bit board are small
 enough for U-Boot to work.

 Both configuration files will also compile and install the kflash and
 pyserial-miniterm host utilities to program bootable image files to the board
 and open a serial terminal console.

 Direct Linux Kernel Boot
 ------------------------

 Using the sipeed_maixduino_defconfig configuration, the bootable kernel binary
 image is built as follows.

 ```
 $ make sipeed_maixduino_defconfig
 $ make
 ```

 The bootable binary image is the output/images/loader.bin file. This image file
 can be written to the board boot flash using the kflash utility.

 ```
 $ output/host/bin/kflash -b 1500000 -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -t output/images/loader.bin
 ```

 Once the kernel image file is fully programmed, a terminal console is open and
 the board can be rebooted by pressing the reset button on the board (if it does
 not reboot automatically).

 The output will be similar to the following.

 ```
 [    0.000000] Linux version 5.18.0 (foo@bar.com) (riscv64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-gcc.br_real (Buildroot 2022.02-560-g6a2b542a09-dirty) 10.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.32) #2 SMP Thu Apr 21 15:16:00 JST 2022
 [    0.000000] Machine model: SiPeed MAIXDUINO
 [    0.000000] earlycon: sifive0 at MMIO 0x0000000038000000 (options '115200n8')
 [    0.000000] printk: bootconsole [sifive0] enabled
 [    0.000000] Zone ranges:
 [    0.000000]   DMA32    [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000807fffff]
 [    0.000000]   Normal   empty
 [    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
 [    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
 [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000807fffff]
 [    0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000807fffff]
 [    0.000000] riscv: ISA extensions acdfim
 [    0.000000] riscv: ELF capabilities acdfim
 [    0.000000] percpu: max_distance=0x16000 too large for vmalloc space 0x0
 [    0.000000] percpu: Embedded 11 pages/cpu s15264 r0 d29792 u45056
 [    0.000000] percpu: wasting 10 pages per chunk
 [    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping off.  Total pages: 2020
 [    0.000000] Kernel command line: earlycon console=ttySIF0
 [    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear)
 [    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
 [    0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
 [    0.000000] Memory: 6000K/8192K available (964K kernel code, 137K rwdata, 205K rodata, 530K init, 66K bss, 2192K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
 [    0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
 [    0.000000] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 25 jiffies.
 [    0.000000] NR_IRQS: 64, nr_irqs: 64, preallocated irqs: 0
 [    0.000000] riscv-intc: 64 local interrupts mapped
 [    0.000000] plic: interrupt-controller@c000000: mapped 65 interrupts with 2 handlers for 4 contexts.
 [    0.000000] k210-clk: clock-controller: CPU running at 390 MHz
 [    0.000000] clint: timer@2000000: timer running at 7800000 Hz
 [    0.000000] clocksource: clint_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x3990be68b, max_idle_ns: 881590404272 ns
 [    0.000001] sched_clock: 64 bits at 7MHz, resolution 128ns, wraps every 4398046511054ns
 [    0.008183] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 15.60 BogoMIPS (lpj=31200)
 [    0.018249] pid_max: default: 4096 minimum: 301
 [    0.022860] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
 [    0.029971] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
 [    0.040242] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
 [    0.045124] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
 [    0.050217] smp: Brought up 1 node, 2 CPUs
 [    0.054346] devtmpfs: initialized
 [    0.070924] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645041785100000 ns
 [    0.079996] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
 [    0.119893] clocksource: Switched to clocksource clint_clocksource
 [    0.131992] workingset: timestamp_bits=62 max_order=11 bucket_order=0
 [    0.179099] k210-sysctl 50440000.syscon: K210 system controller
 [    0.194904] k210-rst 50440000.syscon:reset-controller: K210 reset controller
 [    0.203108] cacheinfo: Unable to detect cache hierarchy for CPU 0
 [    0.213867] i2c_dev: i2c /dev entries driver
 [    0.223397] k210-fpioa 502b0000.pinmux: K210 FPIOA pin controller
 [    0.235632] 38000000.serial: ttySIF0 at MMIO 0x38000000 (irq = 1, base_baud = 115200) is a SiFive UART v0
 [    0.244585] printk: console [ttySIF0] enabled
 [    0.244585] printk: console [ttySIF0] enabled
 [    0.253190] printk: bootconsole [sifive0] disabled
 [    0.253190] printk: bootconsole [sifive0] disabled
 [    0.264820] panel@0 enforce active low on chipselect handle
 [    0.281482] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 524K
 [    0.286621] This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
 [    0.293047] Run /init as init process
           __  _
          / / (_) ____   _   _ __  __
         / /  | ||  _ \ | | | |\ \/ /
        / /___| || | | || |_| | >  <
       /_____/|_||_| |_| \____|/_/\_\
     64-bits RISC-V Kendryte K210 NOMMU

 / #
 ```

 To open a terminal console without re-flashing the board, the pyserial-miniterm
 host tool can be used.

 ```
 $ output/host/bin/pyserial-miniterm --raw --eol=LF /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
 ```

 The options "--raw" and "--eol=LF" are added here to avoid a double carriage
 return each time a command is entered.


 U-Boot SD-Card Boot
 -------------------

 The build procedure is similar to the built-in initramfs case.

 ```
 $ make sipeed_maixduino_sdcard_defconfig
 $ make
 ```

 The build process will generate two files under the output/images directory.

 * sdcard.img: The image file for the SD card filesystem. This image has 2
   partitions. The first partition is a vfat partition containing the kernel
   uImage and the board device tree binary. The second partition is the root
   filesystem with busybox installed. The second partition is formatted using
   ext2 (rev1).

 * uboot.bin: U-Boot bootable binary to load and boot the kernel from the SD
   card.

 The SD card can be prepared by writing the sdcard.img file, as follows.

 ```
 $ sudo dd if=output/images/sdcard.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1M
 $ sync
 $ eject /dev/sdX
 ```

 Where /dev/sdX is the device file name of the SD card. Once completed, the SD
 card can be inserted into the board and the U-Boot binary image written to the
 board boot flash using the kflash utility.

 ```
 $ output/host/bin/kflash -b 1500000 -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -t output/images/u-boot.bin
 ```

 The above command will program U-Boot image to the board boot ROM and open a
 terminal console once the u-boot.bin file is fully programmed. Reboot into the
 newly programmed environment by pressing the board reset button.

 The output will be similar to the following.

 ```
 [    0.000000] Linux version 5.18.0 (foo@bar.com) (riscv64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-gcc.br_real (Buildroot 2022.02-560-g6a2b542a09-dirty) 10.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.32) #1 SMP Thu Apr 21 15:30:18 JST 2022
 [    0.000000] Machine model: SiPeed MAIXDUINO
 [    0.000000] earlycon: sifive0 at MMIO 0x0000000038000000 (options '115200n8')
 [    0.000000] printk: bootconsole [sifive0] enabled
 [    0.000000] Zone ranges:
 [    0.000000]   DMA32    [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000807fffff]
 [    0.000000]   Normal   empty
 [    0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
 [    0.000000] Early memory node ranges
 [    0.000000]   node   0: [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000807fffff]
 [    0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000807fffff]
 [    0.000000] riscv: ISA extensions acdfim
 [    0.000000] riscv: ELF capabilities acdfim
 [    0.000000] percpu: max_distance=0x16000 too large for vmalloc space 0x0
 [    0.000000] percpu: Embedded 11 pages/cpu s15392 r0 d29664 u45056
 [    0.000000] percpu: wasting 10 pages per chunk
 [    0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping off.  Total pages: 2020
 [    0.000000] Kernel command line: earlycon console=ttySIF0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait ro
 [    0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear)
 [    0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
 [    0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
 [    0.000000] Memory: 6156K/8192K available (1180K kernel code, 151K rwdata, 239K rodata, 102K init, 69K bss, 2036K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
 [    0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
 [    0.000000] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 25 jiffies.
 [    0.000000] NR_IRQS: 64, nr_irqs: 64, preallocated irqs: 0
 [    0.000000] riscv-intc: 64 local interrupts mapped
 [    0.000000] plic: interrupt-controller@c000000: mapped 65 interrupts with 2 handlers for 4 contexts.
 [    0.000000] k210-clk: clock-controller: CPU running at 390 MHz
 [    0.000000] clint: timer@2000000: timer running at 7800000 Hz
 [    0.000000] clocksource: clint_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x3990be68b, max_idle_ns: 881590404272 ns
 [    0.000001] sched_clock: 64 bits at 7MHz, resolution 128ns, wraps every 4398046511054ns
 [    0.008191] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 15.60 BogoMIPS (lpj=31200)
 [    0.018255] pid_max: default: 4096 minimum: 301
 [    0.022876] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
 [    0.029982] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
 [    0.040417] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
 [    0.045397] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
 [    0.050513] smp: Brought up 1 node, 2 CPUs
 [    0.054680] devtmpfs: initialized
 [    0.072127] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645041785100000 ns
 [    0.081205] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
 [    0.125074] clocksource: Switched to clocksource clint_clocksource
 [    0.138311] workingset: timestamp_bits=62 max_order=11 bucket_order=0
 [    0.183471] k210-sysctl 50440000.syscon: K210 system controller
 [    0.199873] k210-rst 50440000.syscon:reset-controller: K210 reset controller
 [    0.208858] cacheinfo: Unable to detect cache hierarchy for CPU 0
 [    0.221586] i2c_dev: i2c /dev entries driver
 [    0.232786] k210-fpioa 502b0000.pinmux: K210 FPIOA pin controller
 [    0.246572] 38000000.serial: ttySIF0 at MMIO 0x38000000 (irq = 1, base_baud = 115200) is a SiFive UART v0
 [    0.255508] printk: console [ttySIF0] enabled
 [    0.255508] printk: console [ttySIF0] enabled
 [    0.264137] printk: bootconsole [sifive0] disabled
 [    0.264137] printk: bootconsole [sifive0] disabled
 [    0.275560] panel@0 enforce active low on chipselect handle
 [    0.313245] mmc_spi spi3.0: SD/MMC host mmc0, no WP, no poweroff, cd polling
 [    0.322845] Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk0p2...
 [    0.345869] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable
 [    0.353221] mmc0: new SDHC card on SPI
 [    0.360233] mmcblk0: mmc0:0000 SA16G 14.5 GiB
 [    0.368350] random: fast init done
 [    0.372926]  mmcblk0: p1 p2
 [    0.391887] random: get_random_bytes called from 0x000000008009b7d2 with crng_init=1
 [    0.400427] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 179:2.
 [    0.410128] devtmpfs: mounted
 [    0.412628] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 96K
 [    0.418137] This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
 [    0.424530] Run /sbin/init as init process
 [    0.563384] random: crng init done
           __  _
          / / (_) ____   _   _ __  __
         / /  | ||  _ \ | | | |\ \/ /
        / /___| || | | || |_| | >  <
       /_____/|_||_| |_| \____|/_/\_\
     64-bits RISC-V Kendryte K210 NOMMU

 / #
 ```

 Of note is that the kernel mounts the SD card as read-only by default to avoid
 corruptions of the ext2 root file system when the board is powered down. This
 is recommended as this board does not support clean shutdown or halt.

 Similarly to the initramfs build case, a console can be open without
 re-flashing the board using the host tool pyserial-miniterm.

 ```
 $ output/host/bin/pyserial-miniterm --raw --eol=LF /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
 ```
	Sipeed MAIXDUINO Board
	======================

	The Sipeed MAIXDUINO board is a dual-core RISC-V 64-bits board based on the
	Canaan Kendryte K210 SoC. This board has the same form factor as the Arduino
	UNO board.

	Prerequisite
	------------

	In order to use the kflash utility to program this board, the user must have
	access to the board USB serial device file. The simplest way to do this is to
	add your user to the same group as this device file. Assume the device file is
	/dev/ttyUSB0, first identify the device group name. In most cases, it is
	either "dialout" or "uucp". Also verify that read-write access is enabled for
	the group:

	```
	$ ls -l /dev/ttyUSB0
	crw-rw---- 1 root dialout 188, 0 May 26 13:48 /dev/ttyUSB0
	```

	Then add yourself to that group (dialout in this example):

	```
	$ sudo usermod -a -G dialout $(whoami)
	```

	To enable the above, it is sometimes necessary to logout and login again.

	Buildroot Configuration
	-----------------------

	Two buildroot configurations are provided:

	(1) Direct Linux Kernel Boot

	This is defined by the sipeed_maixduino_defconfig configuration. This
	configuration allows building a bootable kernel image with a built-in initramfs
	root file system (the board SD card is not used). The built kernel image can be
	flashed directly to the board ROM for direct booting. No boot loader is
	required.

	(2) U-Boot SD-Card Boot

	The sipeed_maixduino_sdcard_defconfig configuration allows building a kernel
	image with the root file system on the board SD card. U-Boot is used as the
	boot loader.

	Note: U-Boot does not natively support the Sipeed MAIXDUINO board. However, the
	board and device tree differences with the Sipeed MAIX-bit board are small
	enough for U-Boot to work.

	Both configuration files will also compile and install the kflash and
	pyserial-miniterm host utilities to program bootable image files to the board
	and open a serial terminal console.

	Direct Linux Kernel Boot
	------------------------

	Using the sipeed_maixduino_defconfig configuration, the bootable kernel binary
	image is built as follows.

	```
	$ make sipeed_maixduino_defconfig
	$ make
	```

	The bootable binary image is the output/images/loader.bin file. This image file
	can be written to the board boot flash using the kflash utility.

	```
	$ output/host/bin/kflash -b 1500000 -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -t output/images/loader.bin
	```

	Once the kernel image file is fully programmed, a terminal console is open and
	the board can be rebooted by pressing the reset button on the board (if it does
	not reboot automatically).

	The output will be similar to the following.

	```
	[ 0.000000] Linux version 5.18.0 (foo@bar.com) (riscv64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-gcc.br_real (Buildroot 2022.02-560-g6a2b542a09-dirty) 10.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.32) #2 SMP Thu Apr 21 15:16:00 JST 2022
	[ 0.000000] Machine model: SiPeed MAIXDUINO
	[ 0.000000] earlycon: sifive0 at MMIO 0x0000000038000000 (options '115200n8')
	[ 0.000000] printk: bootconsole [sifive0] enabled
	[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
	[ 0.000000] DMA32 [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000807fffff]
	[ 0.000000] Normal empty
	[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
	[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
	[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000807fffff]
	[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000807fffff]
	[ 0.000000] riscv: ISA extensions acdfim
	[ 0.000000] riscv: ELF capabilities acdfim
	[ 0.000000] percpu: max_distance=0x16000 too large for vmalloc space 0x0
	[ 0.000000] percpu: Embedded 11 pages/cpu s15264 r0 d29792 u45056
	[ 0.000000] percpu: wasting 10 pages per chunk
	[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping off. Total pages: 2020
	[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: earlycon console=ttySIF0
	[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear)
	[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
	[ 0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
	[ 0.000000] Memory: 6000K/8192K available (964K kernel code, 137K rwdata, 205K rodata, 530K init, 66K bss, 2192K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
	[ 0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
	[ 0.000000] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 25 jiffies.
	[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 64, nr_irqs: 64, preallocated irqs: 0
	[ 0.000000] riscv-intc: 64 local interrupts mapped
	[ 0.000000] plic: interrupt-controller@c000000: mapped 65 interrupts with 2 handlers for 4 contexts.
	[ 0.000000] k210-clk: clock-controller: CPU running at 390 MHz
	[ 0.000000] clint: timer@2000000: timer running at 7800000 Hz
	[ 0.000000] clocksource: clint_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x3990be68b, max_idle_ns: 881590404272 ns
	[ 0.000001] sched_clock: 64 bits at 7MHz, resolution 128ns, wraps every 4398046511054ns
	[ 0.008183] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 15.60 BogoMIPS (lpj=31200)
	[ 0.018249] pid_max: default: 4096 minimum: 301
	[ 0.022860] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
	[ 0.029971] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
	[ 0.040242] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
	[ 0.045124] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
	[ 0.050217] smp: Brought up 1 node, 2 CPUs
	[ 0.054346] devtmpfs: initialized
	[ 0.070924] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645041785100000 ns
	[ 0.079996] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
	[ 0.119893] clocksource: Switched to clocksource clint_clocksource
	[ 0.131992] workingset: timestamp_bits=62 max_order=11 bucket_order=0
	[ 0.179099] k210-sysctl 50440000.syscon: K210 system controller
	[ 0.194904] k210-rst 50440000.syscon:reset-controller: K210 reset controller
	[ 0.203108] cacheinfo: Unable to detect cache hierarchy for CPU 0
	[ 0.213867] i2c_dev: i2c /dev entries driver
	[ 0.223397] k210-fpioa 502b0000.pinmux: K210 FPIOA pin controller
	[ 0.235632] 38000000.serial: ttySIF0 at MMIO 0x38000000 (irq = 1, base_baud = 115200) is a SiFive UART v0
	[ 0.244585] printk: console [ttySIF0] enabled
	[ 0.244585] printk: console [ttySIF0] enabled
	[ 0.253190] printk: bootconsole [sifive0] disabled
	[ 0.253190] printk: bootconsole [sifive0] disabled
	[ 0.264820] panel@0 enforce active low on chipselect handle
	[ 0.281482] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 524K
	[ 0.286621] This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
	[ 0.293047] Run /init as init process
	__ _
	/ / (_) ____ _ _ __ __
	/ / \| \|\| _ \ \| \| \| \|\ \/ /
	/ /___\| \|\| \| \| \|\| \|_\| \| > <
	/_____/\|_\|\|_\| \|_\| \____\|/_/\_\
	64-bits RISC-V Kendryte K210 NOMMU

	/ #
	```

	To open a terminal console without re-flashing the board, the pyserial-miniterm
	host tool can be used.

	```
	$ output/host/bin/pyserial-miniterm --raw --eol=LF /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
	```

	The options "--raw" and "--eol=LF" are added here to avoid a double carriage
	return each time a command is entered.


	U-Boot SD-Card Boot
	-------------------

	The build procedure is similar to the built-in initramfs case.

	```
	$ make sipeed_maixduino_sdcard_defconfig
	$ make
	```

	The build process will generate two files under the output/images directory.

	* sdcard.img: The image file for the SD card filesystem. This image has 2
	partitions. The first partition is a vfat partition containing the kernel
	uImage and the board device tree binary. The second partition is the root
	filesystem with busybox installed. The second partition is formatted using
	ext2 (rev1).

	* uboot.bin: U-Boot bootable binary to load and boot the kernel from the SD
	card.

	The SD card can be prepared by writing the sdcard.img file, as follows.

	```
	$ sudo dd if=output/images/sdcard.img of=/dev/sdX bs=1M
	$ sync
	$ eject /dev/sdX
	```

	Where /dev/sdX is the device file name of the SD card. Once completed, the SD
	card can be inserted into the board and the U-Boot binary image written to the
	board boot flash using the kflash utility.

	```
	$ output/host/bin/kflash -b 1500000 -p /dev/ttyUSB0 -t output/images/u-boot.bin
	```

	The above command will program U-Boot image to the board boot ROM and open a
	terminal console once the u-boot.bin file is fully programmed. Reboot into the
	newly programmed environment by pressing the board reset button.

	The output will be similar to the following.

	```
	[ 0.000000] Linux version 5.18.0 (foo@bar.com) (riscv64-buildroot-linux-uclibc-gcc.br_real (Buildroot 2022.02-560-g6a2b542a09-dirty) 10.3.0, GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.32) #1 SMP Thu Apr 21 15:30:18 JST 2022
	[ 0.000000] Machine model: SiPeed MAIXDUINO
	[ 0.000000] earlycon: sifive0 at MMIO 0x0000000038000000 (options '115200n8')
	[ 0.000000] printk: bootconsole [sifive0] enabled
	[ 0.000000] Zone ranges:
	[ 0.000000] DMA32 [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000807fffff]
	[ 0.000000] Normal empty
	[ 0.000000] Movable zone start for each node
	[ 0.000000] Early memory node ranges
	[ 0.000000] node 0: [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000807fffff]
	[ 0.000000] Initmem setup node 0 [mem 0x0000000080000000-0x00000000807fffff]
	[ 0.000000] riscv: ISA extensions acdfim
	[ 0.000000] riscv: ELF capabilities acdfim
	[ 0.000000] percpu: max_distance=0x16000 too large for vmalloc space 0x0
	[ 0.000000] percpu: Embedded 11 pages/cpu s15392 r0 d29664 u45056
	[ 0.000000] percpu: wasting 10 pages per chunk
	[ 0.000000] Built 1 zonelists, mobility grouping off. Total pages: 2020
	[ 0.000000] Kernel command line: earlycon console=ttySIF0 root=/dev/mmcblk0p2 rootwait ro
	[ 0.000000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 1, 8192 bytes, linear)
	[ 0.000000] Inode-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
	[ 0.000000] mem auto-init: stack:off, heap alloc:off, heap free:off
	[ 0.000000] Memory: 6156K/8192K available (1180K kernel code, 151K rwdata, 239K rodata, 102K init, 69K bss, 2036K reserved, 0K cma-reserved)
	[ 0.000000] rcu: Hierarchical RCU implementation.
	[ 0.000000] rcu: RCU calculated value of scheduler-enlistment delay is 25 jiffies.
	[ 0.000000] NR_IRQS: 64, nr_irqs: 64, preallocated irqs: 0
	[ 0.000000] riscv-intc: 64 local interrupts mapped
	[ 0.000000] plic: interrupt-controller@c000000: mapped 65 interrupts with 2 handlers for 4 contexts.
	[ 0.000000] k210-clk: clock-controller: CPU running at 390 MHz
	[ 0.000000] clint: timer@2000000: timer running at 7800000 Hz
	[ 0.000000] clocksource: clint_clocksource: mask: 0xffffffffffffffff max_cycles: 0x3990be68b, max_idle_ns: 881590404272 ns
	[ 0.000001] sched_clock: 64 bits at 7MHz, resolution 128ns, wraps every 4398046511054ns
	[ 0.008191] Calibrating delay loop (skipped), value calculated using timer frequency.. 15.60 BogoMIPS (lpj=31200)
	[ 0.018255] pid_max: default: 4096 minimum: 301
	[ 0.022876] Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
	[ 0.029982] Mountpoint-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes, linear)
	[ 0.040417] rcu: Hierarchical SRCU implementation.
	[ 0.045397] smp: Bringing up secondary CPUs ...
	[ 0.050513] smp: Brought up 1 node, 2 CPUs
	[ 0.054680] devtmpfs: initialized
	[ 0.072127] clocksource: jiffies: mask: 0xffffffff max_cycles: 0xffffffff, max_idle_ns: 7645041785100000 ns
	[ 0.081205] pinctrl core: initialized pinctrl subsystem
	[ 0.125074] clocksource: Switched to clocksource clint_clocksource
	[ 0.138311] workingset: timestamp_bits=62 max_order=11 bucket_order=0
	[ 0.183471] k210-sysctl 50440000.syscon: K210 system controller
	[ 0.199873] k210-rst 50440000.syscon:reset-controller: K210 reset controller
	[ 0.208858] cacheinfo: Unable to detect cache hierarchy for CPU 0
	[ 0.221586] i2c_dev: i2c /dev entries driver
	[ 0.232786] k210-fpioa 502b0000.pinmux: K210 FPIOA pin controller
	[ 0.246572] 38000000.serial: ttySIF0 at MMIO 0x38000000 (irq = 1, base_baud = 115200) is a SiFive UART v0
	[ 0.255508] printk: console [ttySIF0] enabled
	[ 0.255508] printk: console [ttySIF0] enabled
	[ 0.264137] printk: bootconsole [sifive0] disabled
	[ 0.264137] printk: bootconsole [sifive0] disabled
	[ 0.275560] panel@0 enforce active low on chipselect handle
	[ 0.313245] mmc_spi spi3.0: SD/MMC host mmc0, no WP, no poweroff, cd polling
	[ 0.322845] Waiting for root device /dev/mmcblk0p2...
	[ 0.345869] mmc0: host does not support reading read-only switch, assuming write-enable
	[ 0.353221] mmc0: new SDHC card on SPI
	[ 0.360233] mmcblk0: mmc0:0000 SA16G 14.5 GiB
	[ 0.368350] random: fast init done
	[ 0.372926] mmcblk0: p1 p2
	[ 0.391887] random: get_random_bytes called from 0x000000008009b7d2 with crng_init=1
	[ 0.400427] VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly on device 179:2.
	[ 0.410128] devtmpfs: mounted
	[ 0.412628] Freeing unused kernel image (initmem) memory: 96K
	[ 0.418137] This architecture does not have kernel memory protection.
	[ 0.424530] Run /sbin/init as init process
	[ 0.563384] random: crng init done
	__ _
	/ / (_) ____ _ _ __ __
	/ / \| \|\| _ \ \| \| \| \|\ \/ /
	/ /___\| \|\| \| \| \|\| \|_\| \| > <
	/_____/\|_\|\|_\| \|_\| \____\|/_/\_\
	64-bits RISC-V Kendryte K210 NOMMU

	/ #
	```

	Of note is that the kernel mounts the SD card as read-only by default to avoid
	corruptions of the ext2 root file system when the board is powered down. This
	is recommended as this board does not support clean shutdown or halt.

	Similarly to the initramfs build case, a console can be open without
	re-flashing the board using the host tool pyserial-miniterm.

	```
	$ output/host/bin/pyserial-miniterm --raw --eol=LF /dev/ttyUSB0 115200
	```