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.
Changed <policy user="root"> to <policy user="0"> in D-Bus
system.conf.in to avoid getpwnam lookup failures on Redox.
Patch written but does not apply yet — tar source extraction
puts files under dbus-1.16.2/ which requires strip=2 or different
path prefix. Left as documented work-in-progress.
D-Bus daemon runs despite cosmetic user lookup warnings.
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.
Platform prerequisite status:
- Qt6::Sensors: BUILT (v6.11.0, 520KB pkgar, dummy backend)
- libinput: BUILT (v1.30.2, with libevdev v1.13.2 + linux-input-headers)
- QML/Quick JIT: still disabled on Redox (blocks real KWin binary,
kirigami, plasma-framework)
KWin: now attempts real cmake build with Sensors + libinput deps
enabled. Falls back to redbear-compositor shim on cmake failure
(QML/Quick gate). Previously kwin was pure stub — now it's a
bounded build attempt with fallback.
Enabled in config (new this session):
- qt6-sensors, libevdev, libinput, kdecoration, kf6-kcmutils
Previously OOTB dependencies now resolved:
- libevdev → libinput → KWin real build path opened
- linux-input-headers → libevdev → libinput chain
- qt6-sensors → KWin Sensors dependency satisfied
14-line durability patch adds #if QT_CONFIG(opengl) guards
around createEglWindow, createPlatformOpenGLContext, and
nativeResourceForContext functions that use OpenGL types.
Patch applied during source extraction (not inline Python).
Qt6ShaderTools cmake function is not available in our cross-compilation
setup. Added -C preload with no-op stub function to allow cmake
configuration to proceed past shader compilation calls.
Phase 3 input chain wiring:
udev-shim: when scheme:evdev is registered (by evdevd), probe for
event0..event7 devices and create /dev/input/eventN nodes pointing to
scheme:evdev/eventN. This bridges evdevd's evdev devices into the
/dev/input namespace that libinput and compositors expect.
libinput: remove -Dudev=false and add libudev-stub as a dependency.
The libudev-stub recipe provides libudev.so that reads from scheme:udev
(udev-shim), giving libinput a working udev enumeration path instead of
stub functions that return NULL.
Input chain is now: hardware → /scheme/input → evdevd → scheme:evdev →
udev-shim → /dev/input/eventN → libudev-stub → libinput → KWin.
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.
Avoid a non-essential debug-only formatting dependency in the WIP Redox libwayland build so the verified relibc compatibility slice is not blocked by wl_closure_print diagnostics.
The symlink from recipes/wip/services/grub was using ../../../../local/
which goes above the repo root. Fixed to ../../../local/ which correctly
resolves from recipes/wip/services/ to local/recipes/core/grub.
install-grub.sh now searches both recipes/core/bootloader/target and
local/recipes/core/bootloader/target for the Redox bootloader artifact.
The WIP grub recipe (recipes/wip/services/grub) is now a full directory
symlink to local/recipes/core/grub instead of just recipe.toml, ensuring
COOKBOOK_RECIPE resolves to a directory that contains grub.cfg. This also
eliminates the duplicate recipe warning from the cookbook.
The GRUB recipe now fails hard (exit 1) if grub.cfg is missing instead of
just warning.
Builds GRUB 2.12 for the host machine (not Redox target) using template=custom.
Produces a 540 KiB standalone PE32+ EFI binary with GPT, FAT, ext2,
chainloader, and utility modules. The grub.cfg chainloads the Redox
bootloader from EFI/REDBEAR/redbear.efi.
Derivative of Redox OS (https://www.redox-os.org) adding:
- AMD GPU driver (amdgpu) via LinuxKPI compat layer
- ext4 filesystem support (ext4d scheme daemon)
- ACPI fixes for AMD bare metal (x2APIC, DMAR, IVRS, MCFG)
- Custom branding (hostname, os-release, boot identity)
Build system is full upstream Redox with RBOS overlay in local/.
Patches for kernel, base, and relibc are symlinked from local/patches/
and protected from make clean/distclean. Custom recipes live in
local/recipes/ with symlinks into the recipes/ search path.
Build: make all CONFIG_NAME=redbear-full
Sync: ./local/scripts/sync-upstream.sh
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