Red Bear OS
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Phase B of the ACPI fork-sync plan (local/docs/ACPI-FORK-SYNC-STRATEGY-2026-06-30.md).
Pairs with the kernel fork-sync commit 4f2a043.
Restores the base fork to match upstream Redox OS base master for the
ACPI userspace:
- Cargo.toml (workspace):
* Add acpi = { git = "...redox-os/acpi.git", branch = "redox-6.x" }
workspace dependency. The jackpot51/acpi GitHub fork was
deprecated in favor of the gitlab.redox-os.org fork that
tracks the redox-6.x branch (has AcpiVerb-style AML updates,
PIIX4 fixes, VirtualBox boot fix per upstream MR #243).
* Switch redox_syscall from crates.io 0.8.1 to a git ref of
gitlab.redox-os.org/redox-os/syscall.git, with [patch.crates-io]
redirecting crates.io consumers to the gitlab fork. The
crates.io 0.8.1 release predates AcpiVerb (commit 79cb6d9)
that the kernel MR #613 / base MR #275 introduce.
- drivers/acpid/Cargo.toml: acpi.workspace = true.
- drivers/amlserde/Cargo.toml: acpi.workspace = true.
- drivers/hwd/Cargo.toml: add redox_syscall.workspace = true
dependency. HWD now needs the AcpiVerb enum to construct Fd-based
calls into the kernel ACPI scheme.
- drivers/amlserde/src/lib.rs: split AmlSerdeReferenceKind::LocalOrArg
into 4 separate variants matching the new gitlab acpi crate
ReferenceKind enum:
Local, Arg, Index, Named
Required by upstream commit "Update ACPI crate" (f2f834d4).
- drivers/acpid/src/main.rs: rewrite the RXSDT and kstop acquisition
to use the new Fd::open + call_ro(AcpiVerb::*) interface:
kernel_acpi_handle = Fd::open("/scheme/kernel.acpi", O_CLOEXEC, 0)
rxsdt = kernel_acpi_handle.call_ro(buf, READ, &[ReadRxsdt])
shutdown_pipe = kernel_acpi_handle.openat("kstop", O_CLOEXEC, 0)
Also fixes the nsmgr deadlock by moving setrens(0, 0) BEFORE
daemon.ready() (upstream commit 9dd6901d).
- drivers/hwd/src/backend/acpi.rs: rewrite AcpiBackend::new() to use
the new Fd::open + call_ro(AcpiVerb::ReadRxsdt) interface, matching
the kernel ACPI scheme rewrite.
Verified by: CI=1 ./local/scripts/build-redbear.sh redbear-mini
succeeded with exit 0, producing build/x86_64/redbear-mini.iso
(512 MB) at 2026-06-30 04:54.
Base
Repository containing various system daemons, that are considered fundamental for the OS.
You can see what each component does in the following list:
- audiod : Daemon used to process the sound drivers audio
- bootstrap : First code that the kernel executes, responsible for spawning the init daemon
- daemon : Redox daemon library
- drivers
- init : Daemon used to start most system components and programs
- initfs : Filesystem with the necessary system components to run RedoxFS
- ipcd : Daemon used for inter-process communication
- logd : Daemon used to log system components and daemons
- netstack : Daemon used for networking
- ptyd : Daemon used for pseudo-terminal
- ramfs : RAM filesystem
- randd : Daemon used for random number generation
- zerod : Daemon used to discard all writes and fill read buffers with zero
How To Contribute
To learn how to contribute you need to read the following document:
If you want to contribute to drivers read its README
Development
To learn how to do development with these system components inside the Redox build system you need to read the Build System and Coding and Building pages.
How To Build
It is recommended to build this system component via the Redox build system, you can learn how to do it on the Building Redox page.
To build and test outside the build system, install redoxer then use check.sh script to build or test:
./check.sh- Check build for x86_64./check.sh --arch=ARCH- Check build for specific ARCH (aarch64,i586,riscv64gc)./check.sh --all- Check build for all ARCH./check.sh --test- Check the base system boots up on x86_64
You can also use make install to inspect the content on ./sysroot, or make test-gui to test booting with orbital interactively.