Red Bear OS
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On the LG Gram 2025 (Core Ultra 7 255H, Arrow Lake-H) the firmware
exposes ACPI processor objects under \_PR.CPU0..\_PR.CPU15 along
with full _PSS, _PSD, _CST, and _CPC objects. The HWP-aware
cpufreqd (Phase G.2) reads these to discover the P-state range
and the HWP activity window. Before this commit acpid exposed
nothing at /scheme/acpi/processor — cpufreqd was falling back
to its hardcoded 4-state table (2400/2000/1600/1200 kHz) on every
system including Arrow Lake.
This commit adds:
1. AcpiContext::cpu_names() — walks the symbol cache and returns
direct child names of \_PR whose serialized form is a Processor
object. Matches on the \_PR.<name> prefix (no further dots) to
avoid returning sub-objects like \_PR.CPU0._PSS.
2. HandleKind::Processor variant for the /scheme/acpi/processor/
directory and HandleKind::ProcFile for the per-CPU files. Adds
the ProcFileKind enum (Pss, Psd, Cst, Cpc) so the scheme can
route each file to its own data source.
3. kopenat() route for /scheme/acpi/processor/<cpu>/<file>
where <file> ∈ {pss, psd, cst, cpc}. Path-component match
extended to 4 elements (was 3); cpu_id parsed as u32.
4. getdents() entry for HandleKind::Processor using
self.ctx.cpu_names() — matches the same pattern as Thermal
and Power. getdents() also covers ProcFile and DmiDir (no
children; reads/writes go through kread/kwriteoff).
5. kread() entry for HandleKind::ProcFile returns a placeholder
"ACPI processor data not yet populated" line so consumers
(cpufreqd, redbear-power) can detect the path is present and
report "no data" instead of getting ENOENT. The full AML-to-
text conversion for _PSS / _PSD / _CST / _CPC is a follow-up
that walks the AML namespace and emits the canonical cpufreq
text format ("freq power latency control").
6. kread() also covers HandleKind::Processor and HandleKind::DmiDir
with EISDIR — they are directory types, not file types.
The acpid version remains at 0.1.0 — the policy in AGENTS.md
("In-house crate versioning") classifies local/sources/base/ as
an Upstream Redox fork and keeps upstream versioning. Phase G.6
adds infrastructure only, not a version bump.
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 14:40. QEMU mini boot reaches Red Bear
login: as before. The /scheme/acpi/processor/ path is now
present and read returns the placeholder line.
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.