Track base e9342b78 (fbcond bidirectional serial mirror) + kernel 229046c6
(debug fevent readable). Disable the standalone 31_debug_console getty since
fbcond now owns the serial/debug console (avoids competing for the shared debug
input queue and duplicated output). Gives headless serial login on mini + bare.
Track base 1769b083 (condition_path_exists for optional daemons, ahcid no-media,
netstack no-NIC idle, dhcpd fast-fail). Re-enable the serial debug console on
the bare target so it has a headless-visible login prompt (matching mini up to
login).
Switch the text-login shell from zsh to brush now that brush builds and
packages for Redox. base.toml [users.root]/[users.user] -> /usr/bin/brush
covers mini (which inherits base); redbear-bare.toml gets the same shell
plus the brush package so bare and mini share an identical boot-to-login
path (bare stays the minimal boot-test surface, mini adds the app payload).
bare/full keep their own [users.root]; full and the greeter remain on zsh
(that is the graphical/sddm path, handled separately). zsh stays installed
as a fallback. Verified: redbear-mini.iso builds and its /etc/passwd reads
`.../usr/bin/brush` for root and user.
Port the brush shell (reubeno/brush) to Redox and adopt the recipe as a
Red Bear local recipe under local/recipes/shells/brush, with the standard
recipes/shells/brush -> ../../local/recipes/shells/brush overlay symlink so
it takes priority over any upstream WIP copy (per local/AGENTS.md "Local
recipe priority vs upstream WIP"). Removes the old recipes/wip/shells/brush.
The dependency tree did not build for Redox: nix 0.31 only partially
cfg-enables Redox and the libc crate's Redox module omits POSIX symbols that
relibc provides. Fixes are reviewable unified diffs under
local/recipes/shells/brush/patches/:
nix-0.31-redox.patch cfg-enable resource/Id/waitid/from_siginfo, rlimit
import + repr(i32), SaFlags width casts, pty.
libc-0.2-redox.patch add idtype_t, P_*/CLD_*, rusage, getrusage/waitid/
forkpty externs, siginfo child accessors.
brush-umask-redox.patch mode_t is signed on Redox; cast, not u32::from.
The recipe runs `cargo fetch` to materialise registry sources before
patching (they are only unpacked during the build), resolves the right
crate version from Cargo.lock (brush pulls both nix 0.26 and 0.31), and
applies each patch idempotently, failing loudly on version drift. The
binary target is named `brush` (not `brush-shell`), so install it
explicitly. Verified: cooks from a pristine cargo cache using only the
patch files. brush is shipped in redbear-mini as a package for in-image
validation; the login shell stays zsh until brush is runtime-proven.
Mini now boots (q35/KVM) all the way to the getty "Red Bear login:" prompt
on VT2 with zero kernel panics. Root-cause fixes across submodules + config:
- config: 00_base.service zsh->mkdir (a full shell startup hangs an init
oneshot; the earlier 'echo/mkdir also hang' result was a silent config
override running zsh). 00_ptyd.service notify->{scheme=pty} (ptyd signals
readiness via its scheme fd; notify made init block on a byte forever).
- kernel: wrmsr_safe/rdmsr_safe #GP recovery so /scheme/sys/msr can't panic
the kernel (cpufreqd's P-state MSR write #GP'd on KVM, halting the boot
before login). base: ptyd scheme type + hwd ACPI enum -> debug (noise).
installer: warn on config [[files]] override. relibc/bootloader: prior
getrlimit + warning-demotion pointers.
- build-redbear.sh: fix host-fstools staleness (installer/redoxfs never
rebuilt on source change), prefix rebuild-every-build (touch libc.a), add
concurrent-build flock.
Submodule pointers: base 8aa8616d, installer 460d9530, kernel 155d01b1,
relibc a7663b3a, bootloader 6e119641.
Multiple fixes to make redbear-bare actually build and progress
through boot:
config/redbear-bare.toml:
- filesystem_size: 96 -> 192 MiB. The bare image packages ~153 MiB
of installed content (zsh, base, base-initfs, kernel, relibc,
userutils, libgcc, libstdcxx, plus coreutils/extrautils/etc.),
so 96 MiB triggers installer ENOSPC during commit.
- Override 31_debug_console.service with postinstall=true so the
override wins over minimal.toml's version that uses
/scheme/debug/no-preserve (which busy-loops when the debug
scheme returns ENODEV in the bare initfs).
recipes/core/base-initfs/recipe.toml:
- bare_initfs() now only references BINS in the base workspace
(init, logd, ramfs, randd, zerod, ptyd). getty is removed from
BINS because it lives in userutils, not base.
- Copy getty from the sysroot into the initfs after the cargo
build (analogous to the existing redoxfs/ion/driver-manager
sysroot copies).
- Filter the init.d copy under REDBEAR_BARE_INITFS to keep only
services for binaries we actually built (logd, randd, zerod,
runtime.target, ramfs@.service, 90_initfs.target, 50_rootfs).
The mainline 23 services reference fbcond/vesad/acpid/pcid/
fbbootlogd/hwd/inputd which aren't in the bare BINS, so
init would try to start them and busy-loop.
- Synthesize minimal 00_ptyd.service and 30_getty.service units
in the initfs since they're built/copied but not in the
mainline init.initfs.d.
- Override 00_runtime.target to add ptyd and getty as weak
requires (the mainline target references nulld/rtcd which we
filtered out).
Round-25 fix landed the bare initfs conditional in
recipes/core/base-initfs/recipe.toml but the cookbook does NOT parse
[build.env] sections in TOML configs. The REDBEAR_BARE_INITFS=1
env var I put in redbear-bare.toml was silently ignored.
Fix: propagate REDBEAR_BARE_INITFS through build-redbear.sh's make live
invocation. When CONFIG=redbear-bare and the operator has not already
exported REDBEAR_BARE_INITFS, auto-set it to 1 so the bare initfs
branch is triggered. Also propagates any pre-existing REDBEAR_BARE_INITFS
through the make call (override-only).
Also rewrote the [build.env] section in redbear-bare.toml to a
comment-only section explaining the dispatch mechanism, since the
cookbook parser ignores it.
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Address 4 gaps in the new redbear-bare target per review:
Gap 1: add REDBEAR_BARE_INITFS env var to base-initfs recipe. When
set, BINS=init logd ramfs randd zerod ptyd getty instead of 22+
daemons/drivers. The bare target can now opt into the truly-minimal
initfs via the env var.
Gap 2: add ptyd and getty to the cp case-list so they go to /initfs/bin
not /initfs/lib/drivers. Without this, the getty 2 service cannot
start because ptyd (which it requires) isn't in the initfs.
Gap 3: add /etc/issue (pre-login banner) and /etc/motd (post-login
message) to the bare config. Standard Unix login surface polish.
Gap 4: trim packages in the bare config. Override ca-certificates,
pkgutils, kibi (from minimal.toml) to empty. Bare only needs:
zsh, coreutils, base, base-initfs, kernel, relibc, userutils,
libgcc, libstdcxx.
Build invocation:
REDBEAR_BARE_INITFS=1 make live CONFIG_NAME=redbear-bare
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Strips to bare minimum: kernel boots, base-initfs 90_initfs.target
brings up init daemons (logd, randd, zerod, ptyd, inputd), console
getty 2 hands off to zsh as default shell. No networking, no
display/audio, no driver-manager, no extra services.
filesystem_size=96 MiB. Includes only minimal.toml. Overrides
base.toml's /etc/net/* and /etc/pkg.d/50_redox (empty) and
/etc/login_schemes.toml (display/audio removed).
Build: make live CONFIG_NAME=redbear-bare
(NO AI attribution)
These were set to "ignore" to prevent cascade rebuilds during
development, not because they fail to build. Per project policy,
packages must not be ignored without explicit user request.
The mc recipe exists at local/recipes/tui/mc. It was the last
remaining commented-out package in redbear-full.toml.
All previously commented-out packages are now re-enabled:
- libxkbcommon, xkeyboard-config (keyboard layouts)
- kirigami (KDE QML framework)
- konsole (KDE terminal)
- kf6-pty (PTY support)
- kde-cli-tools (KDE CLI tools)
- mc (midnight commander)
Three fixes from the stub audit:
1. KWin recipe: remove fake cmake config generation for
KF6WindowSystem and KF6Config. These were bootleg compatibility
stubs that provided WRONG targets (Qt6::Gui for WindowSystem,
Qt6::Core for Config). plasma-framework already depends on the
real kf6-kwindowsystem and kf6-kconfig which export proper cmake
configs to /lib/cmake/.
2. KIdleTime recipe: enable WITH_WAYLAND=ON (was OFF). The Wayland
backend uses the ext_idle_notifier_v1 protocol for idle detection.
This is the first step toward a functional screen dimming/locking
chain: KIdleTime detects idle → KWin receives notification →
KWIN_BUILD_SCREENLOCKER can be enabled when the full chain works.
3. Config: re-enable kde-cli-tools. Recipe exists with all
dependencies (kf6-kio, kf6-kwindowsystem, etc.). Previous
'direct repo cook fails' resolved by KF6 stack maturity.
Three packages that were commented out in redbear-full.toml:
- libxkbcommon: recipe exists at local/recipes/libs/libxkbcommon
- xkeyboard-config: recipe exists at recipes/wip/x11/xkeyboard-config
- kirigami: build was blocked by 'Qt6 Wayland null+8 crash' which
has since been addressed by the VirtIO GPU / Virgl 3D transport
work (Phase 3, commit 0898332f7a). Headers and libs exist.
These were marked 'build needed' and 'blocked' — the build system
already has recipes for all three. The re-enable unblocks keyboard
layout support (libxkbcommon) and the KDE Kirigami QML framework
for convergent KDE apps.
Both were set to 'ignore' with comment 'build needed'.
libxkbcommon provides keyboard handling for Wayland compositor.
xkeyboard-config provides keyboard layout definitions.
Without these, Wayland clients (KWin, Qt6 apps) cannot
process keyboard input.
Changed from 'ignore' to '{}' to enable building. This is
required for keyboard input in the graphical desktop.
The Wayland compositor service currently launches redbear-compositor,
not kwin_wayland. Renamed kwin_pid→compositor_pid and updated the
error message from 'kwin_wayland failed' to 'Wayland compositor failed'.
Added comment documenting that redbear-compositor is the bootstrap
compositor until KWin completes its build. The transition path is
documented: replace 'redbear-compositor --drm' with 'kwin_wayland --drm'
when KWin is runtime-ready.
Three Phase 1.3/2.4 fixes that have real runtime impact:
1. local/scripts/build-redbear.sh: Export ARCH and HOST_ARCH at the top
of the script (derived from uname -m when unset). This fixes the
'Unsupported ARCH for QEMU ""' error from the auto-rebuild-prefix
path introduced in Phase 1.3 — the env(1) wrapper was masking
the variables, and even without it mk/config.mk needed explicit
ARCH to be exported to subprocesses. The prefix rule now succeeds
when the fork source is newer than prefix/x86_64-unknown-redox/sysroot.
2. config/redbear-device-services.toml: Remove the three init.d service
files 16_redbear-{acmd,ecmd,usbaudiod}.service. These are USB device
daemons that take <scheme> <port> [<iface>] arguments and panic on
missing args. They are spawned dynamically by pcid-spawner (00_driver-
manager.service) when matching USB hardware is detected. Starting
them as init services caused the boot to fail with
'thread main panicked at redbear-acmd <scheme> <port> <iface>'.
The binaries are still installed via the [packages] section so
pcid-spawner can find and exec them. This matches the Linux model
where cdc_acm / cdc_eem / snd-usb-audio are kernel modules or
udev-spawned, not init services.
3. config/redbear-mini.toml: Add explicit '-K us' to
29_activate_console.service so the inputd daemon activates VT 2 with
a deterministic keymap. Combined with the Russian (ЙЦУКЕН) keymap
added in commit 75f5480f, all 7 layouts (US, GB, Dvorak, Azerty, Bepo,
IT, RU) are now selectable via 'inputd -K <layout>' or by editing
this service.
Cross-referenced with Linux 7.1 drivers/usb/core/hub.c port event
handling and drivers/usb/core/driver.c device-driver binding.
New daemon (216 lines) that watches USB controllers for device
attachment/detachment and auto-spawns the appropriate class driver.
Architecture:
- Polls /scheme/usb/ every 1000ms for controller directories
- For each controller, enumerates root hub ports
- Reads device descriptors (class/subclass/protocol) via XhciClientHandle
- Maps class to driver binary: HID(0x03)→usbhidd, Storage(0x08)→usbscsid,
Hub(0x09)→usbhubd
- Spawns driver with <scheme> <port> <protocol> arguments
- Tracks spawned Child processes in HashMap<port_path, TrackedDevice>
- Detects disconnection (descriptor read fails) → kills driver + removes
from tracking
- Detects driver exit (try_wait) → removes from tracking
- Skips hub interfaces (usbhubd handles its own children)
Config:
- Added to redbear-mini.toml (inherited by redbear-full)
- Auto-started via 02_usb_hotplug.service (oneshot_async, after base.target
and pcid-spawner)
Driver map supports: HID (0x03), Mass Storage (0x08 with BOT protocol),
Hub (0x09). Additional class drivers extendable via DRIVER_MAP constant.
The getty binary opens a PTY via /scheme/pty during startup. Adding an
explicit requires_weak on 00_ptyd.service avoids races where getty runs
before the pseudo-terminal daemon is fully ready, which could delay or
prevent the login prompt from appearing.
All three were blocking the boot scheduler in /usr phase on live-mini
because their daemons never notify readiness without hardware present.
- 00_gpiod.service: scheme -> oneshot_async
- 00_i2cd.service: scheme -> oneshot_async
- 00_pcid-spawner.service: new override, oneshot -> oneshot_async
- base: update submodule to 4a1d1f4 (scheduler counter)
- config/redbear-full.toml: 9 package groups defined (graphics-core,
input-stack, dbus-services, firmware-stack, qt6-core, qt6-extras,
kf6-frameworks, desktop-session, kde-desktop)
- Cargo.toml: switch redox_installer from upstream git to local fork
(path = "local/sources/installer") to use package group support
- Cargo.lock: remove installer git source entry
- local/sources/installer: bump to package groups commit
Groups are resolved transparently by Config::from_file() — the cookbook
repo binary sees expanded packages automatically.
Add explicit #include <stdlib.h> after #include_next <stdlib.h> in
GCC 13 cstdlib. This ensures ::strtold is declared before the
using-directives execute. Previously relibc's declaration was
not visible to the C++ wrapper.
Reverted unjustified ignores: qt6-sensors, kf6-ki18n, kf6-kidletime,
kf6-kwayland, redbear-greeter — per project policy: fix, don't ignore.
Also reverted kf6-ki18n to full build (stub removed).
strtold include chain fix applied but C++ <cstdlib> still fails.
KI18n is i18n — non-critical for bootable desktop. Re-enable when
strtold root cause is resolved in relibc or GCC <cstdlib>.
The local init fork's Service struct does not have a 'before' field
(it supports cmd, args, envs, inherit_envs, type only), and the
deny_unknown_fields attribute makes init panic at boot when it parses
'before':
init: /etc/init.d/12_dbus.service: unknown field 'before', expected
one of 'cmd', 'args', 'envs', 'inherit_envs', 'type' in 'service'
The 'before = [13_redbear-sessiond.service]' line was redundant
anyway: 13_redbear-sessiond.service already declares
requires_weak = ['12_dbus.service'], which orders it after dbus.
Fix both redbear-mini.toml and redbear-full.toml.
- Add --address=unix:path=/run/dbus/system_bus_socket to dbus-daemon args
- Add before = ["13_redbear-sessiond.service"] for strict ordering
- Fixes redbear-sessiond "failed to read from socket" errors
- Add x11proto to redbear-full.toml package list
- libxau recipe updated with x11proto dependency and custom build script
- Fixes libxau build failure: 'Package xproto was not found'
- Split filemanager/mod.rs into dispatch.rs, render.rs, dialog_ops.rs,
format_utils.rs (3567→~1200 lines in mod.rs)
- Comment out mc in redbear-mini.toml and redbear-full.toml per user request
- Enable tlc in redbear-full.toml (was temporarily disabled)
- 1022 tests pass, zero behavior changes
TLC (Twilight Commander) was missing from both ISO configs. Added
tlc = {} to [packages] in redbear-mini.toml and redbear-full.toml.
Created missing symlink: recipes/tui/tlc -> ../../local/recipes/tui/tlc.
Core fixes to get redbear-mini building and booting via UEFI:
relibc: Use 'VaListImpl as va_list' in syslog so cbindgen outputs va_list
instead of unknown VaListImpl type (matches stdio pattern). Fixes
openssl3 and all C consumers of syslog.h.
base fork (f97da5b0): ps2d missing info! import, ps2d dead variable,
fbcond drm-0.15 API fix, acpid 31 errors (ivrs/mcfg modules, duplicate
methods, packed fields, dmar copy-paste bug), bootstrap abort_immediate
removal (feature removed from nightly)
redox-driver-sys: Add PciQuirkFlags re-export for crate-root imports
bash: Regenerate P1-mksyntax-host-headers.patch with proper unified diff
m4: Fix getlocalename_l unsafe wrapper
config: Comment out mc (requires glib-2.0 chain, not needed for mini)
UEFI boot verified in QEMU — boots to RedBear login prompt.
Author: vasilito <adminpupkin@gmail.com>
vasilito