Complete the Linux-aligned seat-takeover primitive set: a raw consumer can take
an EXCLUSIVE grab of the input stream by writing a single control byte to its
own consumer_raw handle (1=grab, 0=ungrab) — self-identifying, unlike the
shared control fd. While a grab is held:
* events route ONLY to the grabbing handle;
* the text console AND every other raw tap are suspended; and
* the grab is released automatically when the handle closes, so a compositor
that crashes cannot wedge input away from the console (Linux
__input_release_device).
A second grab attempt by a different handle returns EBUSY. Additive and
behaviour-preserving: grab defaults to None, so nothing changes until a client
grabs. new_raw() now opens read+write and ConsumerHandle::set_grab() drives it.
Together with set_vt_mode (KDSKBMODE) this gives seatd/a compositor the full
grab + VT-mode takeover surface. Compile-checked for x86_64-unknown-redox;
boot-validation pending build-green.
Add control kinds 3/4 (set VT graphics/text mode) and a graphics_vts set.
When a VT is claimed by a graphical client, the console `Consumer` for that VT
is suspended — cooked bytes stop being delivered to the text console — while
the raw device tap (consumer_raw) keeps feeding the compositor. This is the
RedBear equivalent of Linux KDSKBMODE(K_OFF)/KD_GRAPHICS silencing the console
keyboard + n_tty for a VT owned by a Wayland compositor.
Behaviour-preserving by default: graphics_vts is empty until a compositor
opts in via ControlHandle::set_vt_mode(vt, true), so text-console delivery is
unchanged. Two control kinds are used instead of a bool to keep the
ControlEvent ABI unchanged.
Full device-grab arbitration (exclusive routing / EVIOCGRAB) and the
VT_PROCESS switch-ack handshake remain TODO — the raw broadcast is sufficient
for a single compositor. Part of the Linux-aligned input-stack consolidation.
Compile-checked for x86_64-unknown-redox; boot-validation pending build-green.
Add a new `consumer_raw` handle to scheme:input — a raw, always-on device
tap modelled on the Linux evdev handler. Unlike the console `consumer`, it:
* is NOT bound to a VT, so it receives events regardless of which VT is
foregrounded (a background compositor keeps getting input); and
* receives the *pre-keymap* event stream — the console keymap is now
applied only on the console `consumer` path, never on the raw tap.
The producer write path snapshots the raw event bytes before the keymap
stamping loop and fans them out to every ConsumerRaw handle unconditionally,
in parallel with the existing VT-gated, keymapped console fan-out (which is
byte-for-byte unchanged — no console-login regression).
This is the RedBear equivalent of evdev being a peer handle off the raw input
core: libinput/xkbcommon (via evdevd) require raw scancodes, which the old
wiring — evdevd reading the keymapped, VT-gated console consumer — could not
provide. Adds ConsumerHandle::new_raw() for consumers.
Part of the Linux-aligned input-stack consolidation
(local/docs/INPUT-STACK-LINUX-ALIGNMENT-PLAN.md). Compile-checked for
x86_64-unknown-redox; boot-validation pending build-green (acpi-rs).
fbcond blocked indefinitely in open_display_v2() while handing the console
over to the real graphics driver: boot stopped at "fbcond: Performing
handoff" and never reached the "Opened new display" that follows a
successful open.
fbcond is single-threaded and owns the console, so while it waited there it
stopped draining console writers. getty, login and the login shell all
blocked on their writes, which made the failure look like a slow or hung
shell -- the stall point just tracked whichever process next wrote to the
console. If the graphics driver was itself waiting on the console, the two
deadlocked outright and the console never came back.
The wait comes from the scheme-open handshake: inputd signals the handoff as
soon as the driver registers its path, but the driver may not be serving its
scheme yet, and O_NONBLOCK does not bound the open (it governs later reads).
Split the two halves in inputd's ConsumerHandle: display_path_v2() only does
an fpath on our own handle and returns promptly, while open_display_path_v2()
carries the blocking open. fbcond now resolves the path inline and hands the
open to a worker thread, then picks the result up from the event loop via
poll_pending_handoff(). Console output produced meanwhile is buffered in
pending_writes (already the behaviour while the display is unmapped) and
flushed once the new display is mapped.
The producer's write buffer arrives byte-aligned from an arbitrary
scheme write; constructing a &[Event] slice directly over it is
undefined behaviour (misaligned loads, hardware faults on strict-
alignment targets). Copy the events into a properly aligned Vec<Event>
via copy_nonoverlapping and drop the trailing partial event.
(Change found as uncommitted work in the fork; committing to preserve
it and unblock the clean-fork build gate.)
Per local/docs/PATCH-PRESERVATION-AUDIT-2026-07-12.md the base
fork was carrying only 38 of 100 patches in local/patches/base/.
The other 62 patches' content was silently missing from the fork
working tree, even though their .patch files were preserved.
This commit re-applies 41 patches that genuinely still apply
cleanly + 17 hunks that partially applied. Recovery covers:
- D-Bus initfs service wiring (P4-initfs-dbus-services)
- USB service wiring (P4-initfs-usb-drm-services)
- netcfg/dhcp/dhcpv6 driver fixes
- acpid shutdown/PM/quirk fixes
- inputd/ps2d hard-fail logging
- pcid driver interface refinements (server cmd channel)
- virtio-core for VirtualBox support
- ixgbed/rtl8139/rtl8168 net drivers
- ahcid NCQ + per-function interrupt coalescing
- logd persistent logging
- bootstrap procmgr race-condition fixes
- cargo version pin to +rb0.3.0 (synchronized release branch)
58 files changed, +1444/-318 lines.
Untracked mnt/ tree and *.orig / *.rej files cleaned up after
patch application (leftover from absolute-path patch headers).
Unfortunately the scheme still has to be created by the daemon due to a
kernel bug, but once that is fixed, it would allow delayed spawning of
scheme daemons.
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