Briefing
The two spent about 30 minutes on a staged PLAN.md. Claude Code first built a BIOS-only SoC and tested the 32 MB SDRAM with memtest, then fitted the Linux SoC into the LFE5U-25, using 47% of its LUTs and 82% of its block RAM. Hollabaugh says he only answered a couple of "continue" prompts overnight.
The result is a single-hart RV32IMA core with an MMU, about a 40-second boot, HDMI out at 800 by 600 and a serial console over the board's FT231X, with no networking or swap. The kernel, OpenSBI and root filesystem are prebuilt images, and the build follows the existing linux-on-litex-vexriscv project.
Written by the Boards & Bots curator
“I did not write a line of the build -- Claude Code did the whole thing overnight while I checked in remotely.”