Red Bear OS
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Phase D of the ACPI fork-sync plan.
Refactors acpi.rs set_global_s_state to follow the canonical Linux 7.1
pattern from drivers/acpi/acpica/hwxfsleep.c:283 (acpi_enter_sleep_state):
1. Look up the _Sx package in the AML namespace, extract SLP_TYPa
and SLP_TYPb (was previously hardcoded to _S5).
2. Evaluate _PTS(state) AML method (Prepare To Sleep) via the new
aml_evaluate_simple_method helper. Failure is non-fatal: _PTS is
optional per ACPI spec.
3. Evaluate _SST(sst_value) AML method (System Status indicator)
with the ACPI_SST_* constants (working=0, sleeping=1,
sleep-context=2, indicator-off=7).
4. Write SLP_EN|SLP_TYPa to PM1a, SLP_EN|SLP_TYPb to PM1b.
5. Spin (machine should power off before this returns).
Also adds:
- Generic aml_evaluate_simple_method(path, arg) helper that
mirrors Linux 7.1 acpi_execute_simple_method (drivers/acpi/utils.c).
Uses evaluate_if_present so missing methods return Ok(None) cleanly
instead of AmlError::ObjectDoesNotExist. Takes the AML global
lock with timeout 16 (mirroring the existing aml_eval pattern).
- Removes the hardcoded `if state != 5` early-return; the function
now handles any S-state generically. S1-S4 paths still don't
fully work (no _WAK, no P-state preservation, no wakeup vector),
but the new generic structure means a future _WAK implementation
only needs to add wakeup handling after step 4.
- Keeps the existing SLP_TYPb write (from Phase C) for hardware that
requires both PM1a and PM1b writes.
Combined with the existing scheme.rs change (thermal_zones() and
power_adapters() methods that enumerate _TZ and PowerResource
entries from the AML namespace), this completes the major ACPI
subsystem gaps identified by the 2026-06-30 assessment:
- Gap #1 RSDP validation (closed in Phase A)
- Gap #3 AML mutex stubs (closed in Phase C)
- Gap #4 set_global_s_state genericity + _PTS + _SST (closed here)
- Gap #5 SLP_TYPb write (closed in Phase C)
- Gap #6 parse_lnk_irc range validation (closed in Phase C)
- Gap #7 thermal/power enumeration (closed in Phase C)
- Gap #8 AcpiScheme fevent (closed in Phase A)
Remaining open:
- Gap #2 DMAR init (needs real-hardware investigation)
- Gap #4b _WAK infrastructure for real S1-S4 suspend (the
generic Sx scaffolding is now in place; _WAK + wakeup vector
+ P-state preservation are still TBD)
Verified by: CI=1 ./local/scripts/build-redbear.sh redbear-mini
succeeded with exit 0. ISO at build/x86_64/redbear-mini.iso
(512 MB) at 2026-06-30 06:28. QEMU boot reaches Red Bear login:
prompt cleanly with redbear-sessiond working (login1 registered
on D-Bus, ACPI shutdown watcher no longer errors).
Drivers
- Libraries
- Services
- Hardware Interfaces
- Devices
- System Interfaces
- System Calls
- Schemes
- Contribution Details
Libraries
- amlserde - Library to provide serialization/deserialization of the AML symbol table from ACPI
- common - Library with shared driver code
- executor - Library to run Rust futures and integrate the executor in an interrupt+queue model without a separated reactor thread
- graphics/console-draw - Library with shared terminal drawing code
- graphics/driver-graphics - Library with shared graphics code
- graphics/graphics-ipc - Library with graphics IPC shared code
- net/driver-network - Library with shared networking code
- storage/partitionlib - Library with MBR and GPT code
- storage/driver-block - Library with shared storage code
- virtio-core - VirtIO driver library
Services
- graphics/fbbootlogd - Daemon for boot log drawing
- graphics/fbcond - Terminal daemon
- hwd - Daemon that handle the ACPI and DeviceTree booting
- inputd - Multiplexes input from multiple input drivers and provides that to Orbital
- pcid-spawner - Daemon for PCI-based device driver spawn
- storage/lived - Daemon for live disk
- redoxerd - Daemon that send/receive terminal text between the host system and QEMU
Hardware Interfaces
- acpid - ACPI interface driver
- pcid - PCI and PCI Express driver
Devices
CPU
- rtcd - x86 Real Time Clock driver
Controllers
- usb/xhcid - xHCI USB controller driver
Storage
- storage/ahcid - AHCI (SATA) driver
- storage/bcm2835-sdhcid - BCM2835 storage driver
- storage/ided - PATA (IDE) driver
- storage/nvmed - NVMe driver
- storage/virtio-blkd - VirtIO block device driver
- storage/usbscsid - USB SCSI driver
Graphics
- graphics/ihdgd - Intel graphics driver
- graphics/vesad - VESA video driver
- graphics/virtio-gpud - VirtIO-GPU device driver
Input
- input/ps2d - PS/2 interface driver
- input/usbhidd - USB HID driver
- usb/usbhubd - USB Hub driver
- usb/usbctl - TODO
Sound
- audio/ac97d - AC'97 codec driver
- audio/ihdad - Intel HD Audio chipset driver
- audio/sb16d - Sound Blaster sound card driver
Networking
- net/e1000d - Intel Gigabit ethernet driver
- net/ixgbed - Intel 10 Gigabit ethernet driver
- net/rtl8139d, net/rtl8168d - Realtek ethernet drivers
- net/virtio-netd - VirtIO network device driver
Virtualization
- vboxd - VirtualBox driver
Some drivers are work-in-progress and incomplete, read this tracking issue to verify.
System Interfaces
This section explain the system interfaces used by drivers.
System Calls
iopl: system call that sets the I/O privilege level. x86 has four privilege rings (0/1/2/3), of which the kernel runs in ring 0 and userspace in ring 3. IOPL can only be changed by the kernel, for obvious security reasons, and therefore the Redox kernel needs root to set it. It is unique for each process. Processes with IOPL=3 can access I/O ports, and the kernel can access them as well.
Schemes
/scheme/memory/physical: Allows mapping physical memory frames to driver-accessible virtual memory pages, with various available memory types:/scheme/memory/physical: Default memory type (currently writeback)/scheme/memory/physical@wbWriteback cached memory/scheme/memory/physical@uc: Uncacheable memory/scheme/memory/physical@wc: Write-combining memory
/scheme/irq: Allows getting events from interrupts. It is used primarily by listening for its file descriptors using the/scheme/eventscheme.
Contribution Details
Driver Design
A device driver on Redox is an user-space daemon that use system calls and schemes to work, while operating systems with monolithic kernels drivers use internal kernel APIs instead of common program APIs.
If you want to port a driver from a monolithic operating system to Redox you will need to rewrite the driver with reverse enginnering of the code logic, because the logic is adapted to internal kernel APIs (it's a hard task if the device is complex, datasheets are much more easy).
Write a Driver
Datasheets are preferable (much more easy depending on device complexity), when they are freely available. Be aware that datasheets are often provided under a Non-Disclosure Agreement from hardware vendors, which can affect the ability to create an MIT-licensed driver.
If datasheets aren't available you need to do reverse-engineering of BSD or Linux drivers (if you want use a Linux driver as reference for your Redox driver please ask in the Chat before the implementation to know/satisfy the license requirements and not waste your time, also if you use a BSD driver not licensed as BSD as reference).
Libraries
You should use the redox-scheme and redox_event libraries to create your drivers, you can also read the example driver or read the code of other drivers with the same type of your device.
Before testing your changes be aware of this.
References
If you want to reverse enginner the existing drivers, you can access the BSD code using these links:
How To Contribute
To learn how to contribute to this system component you need to read the following document:
Development
To learn how to do development with this system component inside the Redox build system you need to read the Build System and Coding and Building pages.
How To Build
To build this system component you need to download the Redox build system, you can learn how to do it on the Building Redox page.
This is necessary because they only work with cross-compilation to a Redox virtual machine or real hardware, but you can do some testing from Linux.