Convert 14 config files from the legacy init script format (plain-text
commands) to the systemd-style TOML .service format. The init daemon
supports both formats; this eliminates the legacy path entirely so that
all services use the richer, more structured TOML unit format.
Key changes per config:
- base.toml: split 00_base into 00_base.service (tmpdir) + 00_sudo.service
(sudo daemon); remove redundant 00_drivers and 10_net (handled by
existing .service files from the base recipe)
- minimal.toml: split 30_console into 29_activate_console.service +
30_console.service + 31_debug_console.service
- desktop-minimal.toml: convert 20_display and 30_console to .service,
add 29_activate_console and 31_debug_console overrides
- x11.toml: convert 10_dbus, 10_xenv, 20_orbital, 30_console
- redoxer.toml: split 10_net into 10_smolnetd.service + 10_dhcpd.service,
convert 30_redoxer
- redbear-legacy-*.toml: update override references to .service paths
- acid.toml, auto-test.toml, os-test.toml, sys-build.toml: direct conversions
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.
PS/2 controller resilience:
- DisableFirst/DisableSecond commands now use retry (3 attempts)
instead of failing on first timeout
- Added 50ms settling delay before first command after firmware handoff
- Disable command failures are non-fatal (warn + continue) — a truly
absent controller fails later at self-test
- ps2d no longer panics on init failure — logs error and continues
so the system can still boot to login prompt without PS/2 input
Branding overrides:
- Added /etc/issue override with Red Bear OS pre-login banner
- Added /etc/motd override with Red Bear OS post-login message
- Fixes transaction conflict where userutils overwrites redbear-release
branding with upstream 'Redox OS' content
QEMU verified: boots to login prompt, no service errors
- IOAPIC: enable full IOAPIC initialization on AMD/Intel bare metal,
dual GSI 0/2 timer mapping for platform compatibility, NMI handler
uses raw COM1 PIO writes to avoid mutex deadlock
- HPET: counter validation, graceful fallback to PIT when HPET missing
- PS/2: fix 0xFE RESEND handling in all MouseState variants, add
controller flush/self-test retry/aux port test from Linux 7.0
- ACPI: defer AML evaluation to avoid blocking initfs driver spawn
- VT chain: remove duplicate rootfs service files (inputd, vesad,
fbcond, getty) that were already handled by initfs phase 1 and the
legacy 30_console script from minimal.toml
- QEMU verified: boots to login prompt, 20 rootfs units (was 26),
single login prompt (was double), only 1 expected error (wifictl)
Getty services now use respawn = true so init restarts them on
exit. redbear-live-mini expanded with additional boot-late services
and reorganized service ordering. Device services TOML gains new
entries for hardened daemon lifecycle.
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.
5-crate Rust workspace implementing full VFAT support: fatd scheme daemon
(FSScheme with open/read/write/mkdir/unlink/rename/fstat), fat-mkfs (create
FAT12/16/32 with labels and cluster size), fat-label (read/write BPB + root-dir
volume labels), fat-check (verify + repair dirty flags, FSInfo, lost clusters,
orphaned LFN). 60 unit tests, 0 unwrap in production code. Included in all 5
redbear configs via redbear-device-services.toml.
- Add grub package to redbear-full-grub.toml so make all works from
a clean tree (the installer needs grub.efi before it runs)
- Fix stat -f%z (macOS-only) to stat -c%s (Linux) in GRUB recipe
- Normalize bootloader config value to lowercase in install_inner so
bootloader = "GRUB" from config files is accepted
- Add bad-cluster marker (0x0FFFFFF7) check in fat_tool.py
_next_cluster to prevent potential infinite loops on degraded media
- Fix file handle leak in fat_tool.py if _read_bpb raises
- Clean up temp directory in fetch_bootloaders on error
- Update AGENTS.md with GRUB recipe and installer documentation
- Update GRUB plan with clean-build prerequisite note
Documents the two-phase GRUB integration approach (post-build script
then installer-native), build notes for the three cookbook workarounds,
and measured artifact sizes. Sets efi_partition_size=16 in redbear-full
to accommodate GRUB plus Redox bootloader on the ESP.
CUB (Red Bear OS Package Builder) is a Rust CLI tool that combines package management and building:
- RBPKGBUILD parser (TOML format) with full spec support
- Cookbook adapter converting RBPKGBUILD to recipe.toml
- PKGBUILD (Arch AUR) to RBPKGBUILD conversion with Linuxism detection
- Dependency mapping (Arch to Redox names)
- pkgar package creation integration
- Build environment setup with Cookbook env vars
- CLI with pacman-style shortcuts: -S, -Ss, -B, -G, -Pi, -Sua, -Sc, --import-aur
28 cub-lib tests passing. cub-cli compiles with local pkgutils.
Added cub = {} to redbear-desktop, redbear-full, redbear-minimal configs.
Created recipe symlink and updated integrate-redbear.sh.
Add mc recipe (v4.8.30) with Redox-specific patch disabling PTY, resolver, subshell, and SFTP/FTP VFS. Build with ncurses against glib. Symlink into recipes/tui/. Add mc package to redbear-desktop, redbear-full, and redbear-minimal configs.
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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