Update REDBEAR-MINI-BOOT-PS2D-INPUTD-LOG-FIX.md with the actual
runtime verification evidence captured at 2026-06-30T00:06:16Z:
- Both new startup log lines appear in initfs at the exact source
line numbers (@inputd:661, @ps2d:96), proving the fix is baked
into the running image.
- End-to-end interactive login succeeded: operator typed root +
password at the Red Bear login: prompt and reached a
redbear# shell (Red Bear OS v0.2.4 "Liliya").
This conclusively confirms the diagnosis: the input chain
(ps2d -> inputd -> fbcond -> getty -> login -> shell) was working
all along. The previous "freeze" was a test-harness issue (no
keystrokes sent to the guest), not an OS bug. The new log::info!()
lines make the input stack health visible in future boot logs.
Two documentation changes:
1. New file local/docs/boot-logs/REDBEAR-MINI-BOOT-PS2D-INPUTD-LOG-FIX.md
captures the 2026-06-30 diagnosis of why the mini boot appeared to
freeze at the login prompt. Records:
- The actual root cause (test harness not injecting keystrokes, not
an OS bug — ps2d/inputd were working silently).
- The committed fix (de9d1f4 in local/sources/base/ adds two
log::info!() startup messages so operators can verify the input
stack is alive from the boot log).
- The expected post-fix boot log lines and how to interpret them.
- Verification status (source-inspected; clean post-fix QEMU boot
pending due to slow bootloader streaming under -nographic).
2. Addendum appended to local/docs/BUILD-SYSTEM-IMPROVEMENTS.md
documenting four build-system ergonomics issues observed during
the diagnosis session:
- #11: local/sources/base/ inner git repo origin points to
upstream Redox instead of Red Bear gitea.
- #12: outer Red Bear repo cannot show inline diffs for the
nested local/sources/base/ git repo (submodule pointer dirty).
- #13: no preflight warning for stale local-fork source (a
4-line edit caused a 30+ min rebuild with no advance notice).
- #14: -nographic + OVMF boot is too slow for time-budgeted
post-fix QEMU verification; recommend BIOS + KVM path.
Both items are S-sized and could be picked up in any future hardening
session. No code changes in this commit.
Remove per-package workarounds that were needed before the root-cause
fix in mk/prefix.mk (which adds #include <stdlib.h> to GCC's <cstdlib>
header at prefix build time). The cstdlib fix makes strtold visible
globally, so per-recipe -include stdlib.h and P1-*.patch are redundant.
Reverted:
- redox-toolchain.cmake: removed -include stdlib.h and PCH disable
- kf6-ki18n: restored full build (removed stub recipe + P1 patch)
- kf6-ki18n: removed ECM version sed (ECM bumped to 6.11.0 already)
- redbear-greeter: removed #include <stdlib.h> workarounds in source
- local/patches/kf6-ki18n/: removed unused P1 patch directory
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).
Rewrite the scattered git-server references into a single canonical
section in README.md and a comprehensive operator section in
local/AGENTS.md.
- README.md: new top-level "Our Git Server" section with connection
details table (token field left as placeholder per session-only
token policy).
- local/AGENTS.md: new "OUR GIT SERVER" section covering connection
details, repo map, clone/auth/remote-setup recipes, cookbook
auth via .netrc, push runbook, API quick reference, and a full
operator runbook including credential-recovery and
accidental-commit mitigation.
Tokens are explicitly NOT stored anywhere in tracked files. Clones
and authenticated operations must use credential helper, .netrc,
or REDBEAR_GITEA_TOKEN env var.
Also normalizes the lowercase-slug note (gitea normalizes RedBear-OS
to redbear-os) and the related-repos table.
The stale-build check in build-redbear.sh compared HEAD commit hashes
against a stored fingerprint, which silently ignored uncommitted changes
in local/sources/{relibc,kernel,base,bootloader,installer}.
This meant dev iterations where a maintainer edited the working tree
without committing would not trigger a rebuild of the affected package.
The cookbook would then cook the binary from a fingerprint that
claims 'up to date' but is actually older than the working tree.
This commit extends the staleness test to also check
'git diff HEAD', 'git diff --cached HEAD', and
'git ls-files --others --exclude-standard'. The error message
distinguishes 'uncommitted changes' from 'new commits' so the
operator can tell which case triggered the rebuild.
Also adds local/scripts/lint-doc-comments.sh: a doc-comment hygiene
linter that flags agent-memo style comments (Note:, This implements...,
Changed from..., Added new..., Korean variants) so future commits
can be screened for the WHAT-not-WHY comment anti-pattern.
GCC <cstdlib> needs ::strtold. -include stdlib.h works for normal
compilation but PCH compiles without -include flags. Disabling PCH
globally prevents strtold visibility issues in all Qt/KF6 packages.
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>.
Following a full repo-wide grep and source review of all quirks
files (mod.rs, pci_table.rs, usb_table.rs, dmi.rs, toml_loader.rs,
pci.rs, i2c-hidd/quirks.rs), this companion to QUIRKS-SYSTEM.md
documents the current ground-truth state of the subsystem as of
2026-06-29.
Findings:
- 11 Rust + 6 C consumers of the redox-driver-sys quirks engine
- 1 separate DMI quirks engine in i2c-hidd (uses RON, not TOML)
- 6 dead-code entry points that return empty flags:
* lookup_pci_quirks_full actions (Vec::new)
* lookup_xhci_controller_quirks_full (stub)
* lookup_hid_quirks (stub)
* load_dmi_acpi_quirks (stub)
* load_platform_dmi_quirks (stub, empty PLATFORM_RULES)
* load_drm_panel_orientation (empty PANEL_ORIENTATION_TABLE)
- 4 PciQuirkFlags bits (22-25) have no entry in PCI_FLAG_NAMES,
so they cannot be set via /etc/quirks.d/*.toml
- DMI is consumed in two incompatible ways:
* redox-driver-sys reads /scheme/acpi/dmi as a flat key=value file
* i2c-hidd reads /scheme/acpi/dmi/{system_vendor,...} as per-field
subpaths, and matches case-insensitive
- redbear-quirks stages 10 TOML files to /etc/quirks.d/; the
TOML layer is fully live (this corrects an earlier claim
that it was dormant)
The audit concludes that the system is correctly initialized and
utilized per its design. No redesign is needed; the existing
QUIRKS-SYSTEM.md is mostly accurate but understates how many
defined functions return empty data and how many flag names
are missing from the TOML schema.
Source comes from tar — local edits are overwritten on fetch.
Patch adds #include <stdlib.h> before Qt headers in common_helpers_p.h
so GCC <cstdlib> sees ::strtold declared.
GCC <cstdlib> needs ::strtold declared. Qt's include chain pulls in
<cstdlib> before stdlib.h. Adding #include <stdlib.h> at the top of
common_helpers_p.h fixes the 'strtold has not been declared in ::'
error. Reverted -U_GLIBCXX_USE_C99_STDLIB toolchain breakage.
Updates the local/sources/base submodule pointer to pick up the
PIIX4 IDE BAR quirk + vgaarb logging + archiso loop_mnt, and
updates the base-initfs recipe to cross-compile loop_mnt before
the redox-initfs-ar archive step.
See local/sources/base commit 2055dcd for the individual
changes.
GCC <cstdlib> uses C99 stdlib wrappers (strtold etc.) gated by this macro.
relibc declares but doesn't implement strtold. Undef at toolchain level
prevents 'using ::strtold' errors in KF6/Qt C++ builds.
GCC <cstdlib> needs ::strtold declared. relibc stdlib.h provides it,
but Qt include chains can pull in <cstdlib> before stdlib.h.
Adding -include stdlib.h at the toolchain level fixes all Qt/KF6 recipes.
Reference analysis for Red Bear OS integration based on running the
latest CachyOS desktop ISO (28 Jun 2026) under QEMU/KVM. Documents
the hardware-enumeration and kernel-init sequences a reference Linux
distro produces on the i440FX + PIIX machine type that Red Bear OS
also targets, with line-by-line mapping to Red Bear OS subsystems
(pcid, ided, e1000d, vesad, xhcid, hwd/acpid).
- local/docs/CACHYOS-INTEGRATION.md: Cross-cutting analysis
(executive summary, hardware inventory, ACPI table coverage,
PCI quirks, boot-phase ordering, init system comparison, action
items).
- local/docs/boot-logs/cachyos-kernel-20260629-0520.log: Captured
441-line dmesg-grade log from the CachyOS kernel boot (SeaBIOS
handover through ACPI, PCI, USB, ATA, network enumeration and
up to a rootfs shell prompt).
- local/docs/boot-logs/cachyos-boot-20260629-0520.md: Pointer
document with the capture command and the rationale for the
indirect-kernel invocation (the QEMU + CachyOS + KVM boot stalled
at the ISOLINUX EDD probe when run from CD; bypassing with
-kernel/-initrd and an explicit console=ttyS0 earlyprintk command
line recovered the full log).
Sources used: https://cachyos.org/ (release info) and the on-disk
ISOLINUX + archiso boot path extracted from
cachyos-desktop-linux-260628.iso.
GCC <cstdlib> does 'using ::strtold;' which requires strtold declared in
global namespace. relibc declares it correctly in stdlib.h, but Qt's
include chain (qchar.h → qglobal.h → ... → cstdlib) pulls in cstdlib
before stdlib.h is fully processed. Adding -include stdlib.h ensures
the C stdlib declarations are in scope before any C++ header.
Old patch had @@ -3,5 — missing trailing context line
'add_subdirectory(qmllint)' that diff -u includes.
Regenerated from actual source.tmp to match fetched tarball.
The previous commit changed the existence probe from is_dir/exists
(read_dir uses stat) to read_dir.is_ok(), but the second and subsequent
calls to read_dir for /scheme/acpi/thermal still return Err at runtime.
The first discover_zone_dirs call at startup succeeds (it sees 0 zones,
matching the acpid scheme's empty Thermal directory). The periodic
monitor_loop recheck then fails with 'unavailable' even though the
path is in fact present.
The real reason is not fully understood yet, but may relate to
scheme-namespace state after userland init, fd table churn, or
Redox-specific read_dir semantics on empty scheme directories.
The warn-once check is redundant: discover_zone_dirs already runs at
startup, and update_policy() sees the empty state every poll cycle and
re-renders the TUI accordingly. Drop the periodic recheck so the
already-diagnosed empty surface no longer logs a false alarm.
- acpid scheme: add Thermal and Power as new HandleKind variants,
register them in the openat match, and add entries to the TopLevel
getdents list. thermald and redbear-upower probe /scheme/acpi/thermal
and /scheme/acpi/power via read_dir; an empty directory is the
correct fallback for desktops and QEMU where there is no ACPI
_TZ/_PR data to enumerate.
- acpid scheme: also handle getdents on the new Thermal and Power
variants. Without this, the scheme returned EIO which std::fs::read_dir
treats as 'the path is not a directory or doesn't exist', and thermald
emits a false 'thermal surface unavailable' warning every poll cycle.
Both daemons previously checked /scheme/acpi/thermal (thermald) and
/scheme/acpi/power (redbear-upower) existence with Path::exists or
is_dir, which use stat/lstat. On Redox these syscalls can return
errors for scheme paths even when the scheme IS registered, leading
to false 'unavailable' warnings even after the new acpid thermal/
power directories were added.
Use fs::read_dir (which already worked for actual zone enumeration)
as the existence probe instead. The match expression intentionally
calls read_dir to discard the iterator and keep only the Result;
using ? here would break the warn-once pattern.
- app.rs: rapl_status field shows 'n/a (run as root)' or
'n/a (unsupported)' or 'sampling...' depending on state
- render.rs: header PkgW shows rapl_status when unavailable;
removed per-CPU PkgW column (package power is socket-wide)
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