Add redbear-usb-storage-check in-guest binary that validates USB mass
storage read and write I/O: discovers /scheme/disk/ devices, writes a
test pattern to sector 2048, reads it back, verifies match, restores
original content. Updates test-usb-storage-qemu.sh with write-proof
verification step.
Includes all accumulated Red Bear OS work: kernel patches, relibc
patches, driver infrastructure, DRM/GPU, KDE recipes, firmware,
validation tooling, build system hardening, and documentation.
Finalize all non-artifact changes accumulated from other sessions:
- config updates, recipe changes, source edits, patches
- pkgar/cache artifacts intentionally excluded (build outputs)
This is the maximum achievable scope for this session.
Hardware-accelerated KDE blocked by: QML gate, KWin/Plasma builds,
hardware GPU validation — all require build system + physical GPU.
Add guard-recipes.sh with four modes:
- --verify: check all local/recipes have correct symlinks into recipes/
- --fix: repair broken symlinks (run before builds)
- --save-all: snapshot all recipe.toml into local/recipes/
- --restore: recreate all symlinks from local/recipes/ (run after sync-upstream)
Wired into apply-patches.sh (post-patch) and sync-upstream.sh (post-sync).
This prevents the build system from deleting recipe files during
cargo cook, make distclean, or upstream source refresh.
Regex now matches KDE-style URLs (/archive/v6.10.0/pkg-v6.10.0.tar.gz).
42 KDE archives all use proper version numbers:
KF6: v6.10.0, Plasma: v6.3.4, kwin: v6.3.4, attica: v6.10.0
- archive-sources.sh: exports fully-patched source archives as
category-pkgname-vVERSION-patched.tar.gz with recipe.toml
- Integrated into build-redbear.sh (runs after every successful build)
- Versions extracted from: explicit rev=, tar URL, or git HEAD
- integrate-redbear.sh: added all missing local recipe symlinks
(breeze, kde-cli-tools, kdecoration, kirigami, plasma-*, wayland/*,
redbear-compositor, redbear-passwd, redox-drm, amdgpu, tests/*)
- 210 archives generated, 171 packages in manifest
- All 12 I2C/GPIO/UCSI drivers verified in base archive
- Add P0-bootstrap-workspace-fix.patch and P2-i2c-gpio-ucsi-drivers.patch
symlinks to integrate-redbear.sh (auto-created on every build)
- Update PATCH-GOVERNANCE.md with Apr 30 recovery: rebased P2 patch,
fixed PCI API (try_mem→map_bar, try_map_bar→map_bar), 12 drivers
- All daemon patches now durable: survive source refresh, make clean,
make distclean via recipe patches list + integrate script
Verified x86_64-unknown-redox cross-compilation:
redbear-hwutils, redbear-info, redbear-compositor all build and publish.
Host cargo check zero warnings. Target make r.* successful.
12 total commits. 7 master plan workstreams advanced.
test-posix-runtime.sh: unified POSIX runtime harness running all 6
relibc-phase1-tests C programs in guest/QEMU modes, exit-code-based
redbear-usb-check.rs: recreated after cancelled task cleanup —
full Phase-pattern checker with JSON output, xHCI/USB/HID/storage probes
Zero warnings, all scripts syntax-clean.
redbear-usb-check: rewritten from 99-line minimal checker to full
Phase-pattern validation (CheckResult/Report, JSON output, proper
cfg-gating). Checks xHCI controllers, USB device enumeration,
HID class detection, storage class detection.
test-usb-runtime.sh: guest + QEMU harness following Phase 1-5 pattern.
Zero warnings.
test-wifi-runtime.sh: runs redbear-phase5-wifi-check + wifi-link-check
in guest/QEMU modes, exit-code-based, following Phase 1-5 pattern
test-bt-runtime.sh: runs redbear-bluetooth-battery-check in
guest/QEMU modes, following same pattern
Hardware validation requires real BT controller + USB passthrough.
Packages/ is the canonical binary package repository for Red Bear OS.
Contains stage.pkgar copies of all built packages (91 files).
New scripts:
- local/scripts/sync-packages.sh: syncs built pkgar → Packages/
- make packages-sync: run sync
- make packages-list: list package count
Future: cache-auto will auto-sync to Packages/ after each build.
Red Bear is a fork/overlay on top of Redox. The upstream build
system wasn't designed for forks — it loses all cached stages on
make clean with no recovery path.
This commit adds a git-tracked build cache:
- local/cache/pkgar/{pkg}/stage.pkgar — per-package cache files
- cache-sync.sh: sync built packages → git-tracked cache
- cache-sync.sh --restore: restore cache → recipe targets
- cache-sync.sh --commit: sync + git commit
- Auto-restore before build, auto-sync after build
Cache survives: make clean, make distclean, git clone, upstream rebase.
Recovery from clean: seconds (restore from git) vs hours (full rebuild).
Adds comprehensive build cache snapshot and restore for overlay OS.
Problem: Upstream Redox build system is single-stream — make clean
destroys cached stage.pkgar files permanently. Build can't recover
without full from-scratch rebuild (2-4 hours).
Solution: Red Bear cache system provides:
- snapshot-cache.sh: Save all stage.pkgar to local/cache/
- restore-cache.sh: Restore from snapshot after make clean
- Auto-restore: Makefile auto-restores cache before build
- Essential cache: Pre-built caches for boot packages tracked in git
- Cookbook fixes: Missing deps trigger rebuild instead of crash
With cache restore, make clean recovery is measured in seconds,
not hours.
Gaps fixed in cookbook:
- modified_all_btree: missing dep → UNIX_EPOCH (rebuild trigger)
- sysroot install: missing dep → skip + rebuild
- apply-patches.sh: add signature-marker checks for build-system patches
to handle cases where reverse-check fails but patch is already applied
- test-baremetal.sh: auto-disable TUI when stdout is not a terminal;
pass CI=1 to make
- test-live-iso-qemu.sh: pass CI=1 via env to prevent repo cook panic
- scripts/run.sh: auto-disable TUI when stdout is not a terminal;
pass CI=1 to qemu launch
- repo.rs: improve TUI initialization error messages (raw mode + alternate
screen) and rustfmt cleanups
- config.rs: auto-detect TTY presence for TUI enablement; use is_terminal()
instead of relying solely on CI env var
Consolidate compile target naming (redbear-live, redbear-grub-live-full,
etc.), add config/redbear-grub-live-full.toml, make redbear-live-full-grub
a legacy alias, update build-iso.sh to support all GRUB live targets, and
sync AGENTS.md/README.md build command documentation.
fetch.rs: use full commit hash for deterministic checkout. recipe.rs:
refactor recipe handling for cleaner patch application. sync-upstream:
add dry-run mode and improve rebase error recovery.
Consolidate the active desktop path around redbear-full while landing the greeter/session stack and the runtime fixes needed to keep Wayland and KWin bring-up moving forward.
vasilito