eudev starts at boot; Xorg finds its input devices through it

udevd and a one-shot trigger run from schinit, 10-schos.conf no longer lists
event0/event1, and the docs say what udev covers and what it does not.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EVRhxi9zpdW2uDUN4FVcao

README.md

@@ -204,8 +204,8 @@ Another: **syscalls are declared in exactly one place**,
 - **No GPU acceleration.** Xorg draws in software; the plan is Linux's `amdgpu`
   through LDLS ([docs/plan/gpu.md](docs/plan/gpu.md)). There is no IOMMU either,
   so a driver in a process is isolated against its bugs, not against malice.
-- **No udev.** Xorg is told its input devices by a config file instead of
+- **udev sees the kernel's own devices only.** eudev runs and Xorg finds its input devices
-  finding them; `/sys` has no device tree and no uevent socket.
+  through it; PCI and USB devices are not yet in the `/sys/devices` tree.
 - **WebKit browsers do not start.** NetSurf does; Epiphany's web process dies at
   start-up, and it has not been run to ground.
 - **USB 2.0 controllers (EHCI)** have no driver. On older machines the ports

docs/architecture/README.md

@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ Read in this order if you are new:
 | [fat.md](fat.md) | FAT12/16/32 with long names: USB sticks, SD cards, the ESP. |
 | [devices.md](devices.md) | Buses, classes, binding, and the vtables consumers talk to. |
 | [usb.md](usb.md) | xHCI, the USB core, and the three class drivers. |
+| [udev.md](udev.md) | eudev on SchOS: the device table, the `/sys` tree, uevents, datagram sockets. |
 | [graphics.md](graphics.md) | Framebuffer, `/dev/fb0`, text rendering, the console, PSOGM and GMMOS. |
 | [desktop.md](desktop.md) | Xorg on the framebuffer, Window Maker, and what they stand on. |
 | [packages.md](packages.md) | The apk root: Alpine's packages, and SchOS as one of them. |

docs/architecture/desktop.md

@@ -49,11 +49,9 @@ the real program is for.
   `xterm` runs and exits, and the server stays up.
 - **`/root/.xinitrc`** is `exec wmaker`. Without it xinit falls back to twm and an xterm, which
   are not in the image.
-- **`/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-schos.conf`** names the input devices. Alpine's Xorg asks udev for
+- **`/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-schos.conf`** holds what the defaults do not give: Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
-  them, SchOS has no udev, and X came up with no keyboard and no mouse: the pointer did not
+  enabled, the keyboard options, and the framebuffer driver. Input devices are *found*, not
-  move and nothing could end the session. SchOS has exactly two input nodes whatever the
+  named: Xorg asks libudev, which reads what `udevd` wrote to `/run/udev` ([udev.md](udev.md)).
-  machine, so a fixed list is the whole answer (`AutoAddDevices` off, Ctrl+Alt+Backspace
-  enabled).
 - **`/etc/asound.conf`** is for sound, not X ([audio.md](audio.md)).
 
 ## Using it
@@ -71,8 +69,9 @@ through ACPI, and reach X as a mouse: pointer, click and tap.
 
 - **No acceleration.** Software rendering to the framebuffer: no DRM, no glamor, no DRI, no
   OpenGL beyond what software gives. GPU drivers are a plan ([../plan/gpu.md](../plan/gpu.md)).
-- **No udev.** Input devices are named in a config file, not found; `/sys` has no `devices`
+- **udev covers the kernel's own devices only.** Input, terminals, memory devices, the
-  tree and no uevent socket.
+  framebuffer and disks are announced; PCI and USB devices are in `/sys/bus/*/devices` but are
+  not yet in the `/sys/devices` tree or on the uevent socket ([udev.md](udev.md)).
 - **Touchpads are mice**: no two-finger scroll, no gestures, no palm rejection.
 - **No resolution change from inside X.** The mode is the console's; `schmode` changes the
   `vgpud` head only, and the loader's menu is where a real panel's mode is chosen.

docs/architecture/filesystem.md

@@ -275,10 +275,15 @@ at the moment it is read, so a stick shows up in `/sys/bus/usb/devices` as soon
 as it is attached. Text files report size 0, as `/proc`'s do; binary ones (the
 tables, `config`) report their real length, since tools copy them by it.
 
-What is missing, compared with Linux: `/sys/devices` and its symlinks (the
+The kernel's own devices (input, tty, mem, graphics, block) have the Linux tree:
+`/sys/devices/virtual/<class>/<name>` with `dev`, `uevent` and a `subsystem`
+link, `/sys/class/<class>/<name>` and `/sys/dev/{char,block}/MAJ:MIN` as symlinks
+into it, and input capabilities; `uevent` is writable, and a write is announced
+on the uevent netlink socket ([udev.md](udev.md)).
+
+What is missing, compared with Linux: PCI and USB devices in that tree (the
 `bus/*/devices` entries are directories rather than links into it),
-`/sys/class` beyond `dmi` and `power_supply`, `/sys/block`, a uevent socket (so
+`/sys/class` entries for them, `/sys/block`, and most of what is writable. PCI `config` is
-no udev), and anything writable. PCI `config` is
 256 bytes, because config space is read through port `0xCF8`, which reaches
 no further.
 

docs/architecture/networking.md

@@ -649,7 +649,11 @@ information was there and the code did not ask.
   `SO_BROADCAST`, `TCP_NODELAY` reach lwIP's pcb; `SO_SNDBUF`/`SO_RCVBUF` report the
   real size; `SO_PASSCRED` on Unix sockets) and refuses the rest with `ENOPROTOOPT`.
   Notably absent: `SO_RCVTIMEO`/`SO_SNDTIMEO`.
-- **`SOCK_DGRAM` over AF_UNIX does not exist** — stream only.
+- **`SOCK_DGRAM` and `SOCK_SEQPACKET` over AF_UNIX** keep message boundaries (each message carries a
+  16-byte header in the same ring) but have no unconnected form: `socketpair` and listeners work,
+  `sendto` a path does not.
+- **Netlink `NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT`** is the one multicast family: sockets bound to group 1 hear the
+  kernel's device events, group 2 what udevd re-announces, and a datagram can be addressed to a port id.
 - **No IPv6**, no firewall or packet filter of any kind, and a TCP stack that has
   been used for downloads at tens of megabits and no more than that.
 - **Three drivers in the kernel, one Linux driver outside it**, and the class is

docs/architecture/udev.md

@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+# udev
+
+Alpine's `eudev` runs on SchOS as an ordinary process, started by `schinit`
+(`etc/schinit/udevd.job`, with `udev-trigger.job` replaying the devices that
+were there first). It is what lets Xorg *find* its keyboard and mouse instead of
+being told, and the road to a Wayland compositor starts here: libinput and
+libseat both ask udev what exists.
+
+The kernel's half is three pieces, all small, none of them specific to udev.
+
+## The device table: `kernel/dev/kdev.c`
+
+The devices the kernel implements itself — input event nodes, the memory
+devices, terminals, the framebuffer, the disks — are listed once, with their
+class, name, `/dev` name and parent. Everything below is generated from it.
+
+The device numbers are the ones `stat()` reports for the node, not SchOS's
+internal ones: `/dev/tty1` is `4:1` to a Linux program (`linux_tty_rdev` in
+`kernel/sys/sys_fs.c`), and udev compares what it reads in `/sys` with what
+`stat()` says about the node. `dev_stat_numbers()` is the one mapping both use.
+
+## `/sys`: `kernel/fs/sysfs.c`
+
+```
+/sys/devices/virtual/input/input0/            name capabilities/{ev,key,rel,abs} properties
+/sys/devices/virtual/input/input0/event0/     dev  uevent  subsystem -> ../../../../../class/input
+/sys/class/input/event0                       -> ../../devices/virtual/input/input0/event0
+/sys/dev/char/13:64 ...                       -> ../../devices/virtual/...
+```
+
+Symlinks are real (`T_SYMLINK` inodes whose target is generated). `uevent` is
+readable (`DEVPATH=`, `SUBSYSTEM=`, `MAJOR=`, `MINOR=`, `DEVNAME=`) and
+writable: `echo add > uevent` — which is what `udevadm trigger` does — makes the
+kernel announce the device again. A write to a PCI or USB device's `uevent` is
+accepted and says nothing yet, because those devices are not in the
+`/sys/devices` tree and an event's `DEVPATH` has to name something that exists.
+
+The input capability files are what `input_id` reads to decide
+`ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD` or `ID_INPUT_MOUSE`. SchOS has two input devices whatever
+the machine — every keyboard on `event0`, every mouse on `event1`
+(`kernel/dev/input.c`) — so each has a fixed, plausible capability set.
+
+## `/dev`: `kernel/fs/devfs.c`
+
+devtmpfs is no longer read-only: udev creates `/dev/char/MAJ:MIN`, `/dev/fd`,
+`/dev/input/by-*` and the like. A small in-memory overlay (192 entries) holds
+directories and symlinks, listed after the kernel's own nodes in whichever
+directory they are in. Device nodes themselves are still the kernel's: `mknod`
+and regular files in `/dev` are refused.
+
+## The sockets: `kernel/net/unix.c`
+
+- **`AF_UNIX` `SOCK_DGRAM` and `SOCK_SEQPACKET`** keep message boundaries.
+  udevd's control socket is `SEQPACKET`, and its manager and workers talk over
+  a `DGRAM` socketpair. A message carries its sender's credentials with it
+  (several workers share one end), a zero-length datagram is a datagram, and a
+  datagram socket never reads end-of-stream.
+- **`AF_NETLINK` / `NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT`** sockets bind to multicast groups:
+  group 1 is the kernel's events, group 2 is what udevd re-announces once its
+  rules have run. A datagram can also be addressed to a port id — udevd hands
+  an event to an idle worker that way, and the worker believes it only from the
+  manager's port. The kernel's messages arrive as credentials with uid 0, pid 0.
+  A queue that is full drops the message, as Linux does, and `udevadm trigger`
+  is how a reader recovers.
+
+## What is not there
+
+- PCI and USB devices in `/sys/devices`, and `add`/`remove` events from the
+  hotplug thread. A USB keyboard works because every keyboard is `event0`, not
+  because udev knew it arrived.
+- `hwdb` (`/etc/udev/hwdb.bin`): `udevadm hwdb --update` has not been run in the
+  image, so `60-input-id` logs "returned non-zero" for the hwdb import. The
+  properties that matter come from `input_id`.
+- Block device partitions, `by-id` / `by-uuid` links, and a `/sys/block`.
+- `libinput` and `libseat` (next; see [../plan/roadmap.md](../plan/roadmap.md)).
+
+## Testing
+
+Boot the ISO and run `udevd --debug &`, then `udevadm trigger; udevadm settle`.
+`/run/udev/data/c7:0` should contain
+`ID_INPUT_KEYBOARD=1`, and `udevadm info /dev/input/event0` should print the
+device. Under X, `/var/log/Xorg.0.log` says `config/udev: Adding input device`.

docs/plan/1.0.md

@@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ it lives.
 | `mprotect` is a no-op, nothing has NX | [kernel.md](../architecture/kernel.md) |
 | No routing table | first interface wins, which is a rule and not routing — [networking.md](../architecture/networking.md) |
 | No descriptor garbage collector | a socket passed over itself and never received leaks the pair |
-| No udev / uevent socket | Xorg is told its input devices — [desktop.md](../architecture/desktop.md) |
+| udev sees only the kernel's own devices | PCI and USB are not in the `/sys/devices` tree — [udev.md](../architecture/udev.md) |
 | No EHCI driver | USB 2.0 ports wired only to EHCI do nothing — [usb.md](../architecture/usb.md) |
 | Touchpads are mice | no two-finger scroll — [desktop.md](../architecture/desktop.md) |
 | `ru_stime` is zero | [kernel.md](../architecture/kernel.md) |

docs/plan/roadmap.md

@@ -62,11 +62,10 @@ compositor worth running is years of work that Alpine already packages.) The des
 Wayland compositor (labwc, sway, weston, a GNOME or KDE session) is the larger step. What Wayland — and a modern X — need
 from the system, in the order they are useful:
 
-1. **udev.** Today Xorg is *told* its input devices (`xorg.conf.d/10-schos.conf`) because nothing announces them. The fix is
+1. **udev — done for the kernel's own devices** ([udev.md](../architecture/udev.md)). eudev runs from `schinit`, the uevent
-   Alpine's `eudev` (or `udev`) running on SchOS, which wants: a **uevent netlink socket** (`NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT`, with the
+   netlink socket and the `/sys/devices` tree exist, devtmpfs takes udev's links, and Xorg finds its keyboard and mouse
-   `add`/`remove`/`change` messages and their environment), a real **`/sys/devices` tree** with `/sys/bus/*/devices/*` and
+   through it. **Left:** PCI and USB devices in the same tree, with `add`/`remove` events from the hotplug thread, so a USB
-   `/sys/class/*/*` as symlinks into it, `uevent` files that can be written to replay events (`udevadm trigger`), and devtmpfs
+   keyboard or a GPU appears to udev; libinput then enumerates evdev devices through it.
-   that udev can create nodes in. libinput then enumerates evdev devices through it.
 2. **libinput and libseat** (seatd is in Alpine): evdev with the properties libinput reads (`ID_INPUT_*` from udev), and a way
    for a non-root compositor to take the keyboard and the display from the kernel — the `VT_PROCESS` handshake exists.
 3. **A DRM device.** Wayland compositors want `/dev/dri/card0` with KMS, and Mesa wants `renderD128`. SchOS has neither: it has

etc/schinit/udev-trigger.job

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+# Replay the devices that were already there when udevd started, so /run/udev
+# knows about them. Runs once; see /etc/udev-trigger.
+#
+# udevd is started by its own job and schinit has no ordering, so the script
+# waits for the daemon's control socket.
+
+Label     = os.schos.udev-trigger
+Program   = /bin/sh
+Args      = sh /etc/udev-trigger
+RunAtLoad = yes
+KeepAlive = no
+
+StandardOut   = /dev/tty1
+StandardError = /dev/tty1

etc/schinit/udevd.job

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+# eudev's daemon: the thing that turns the kernel's uevents into /run/udev
+# data and /dev symlinks, which is how Xorg and every Wayland compositor learn
+# what input and display devices exist.
+#
+# Alpine's eudev package; the kernel side is the uevent netlink socket and the
+# /sys device tree (kernel/dev/kdev.c, kernel/fs/sysfs.c).
+
+Label     = os.schos.udevd
+Program   = /sbin/udevd
+Args      = udevd
+RunAtLoad = yes
+KeepAlive = yes
+ThrottleInterval = 3
+
+StandardOut   = /dev/tty1
+StandardError = /dev/tty1

etc/udev-trigger

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+# Wait for udevd to listen, then ask the kernel to announce every device again.
+i=0
+while [ ! -S /run/udev/control ] && [ $i -lt 100 ]; do
+    sleep 0.1
+    i=$((i + 1))
+done
+udevadm trigger --action=add
+udevadm settle --timeout=60

kernel/net/unix.c

@@ -15,15 +15,18 @@
 // is the property sleep/wakeup actually requires. Thirty-two sockets carrying
 // GUI messages will not notice the contention.
 //
-// **Names are held in a table here, not in the filesystem.** A real Unix
+// **Names live in the filesystem.** bind() creates a socket node
-// socket appears in a directory listing as a special file, and binding one
+// (kernel/sys/sys_net.c) and connect() resolves a path to the inode and looks
-// creates that node. Doing that properly means a new inode type threaded
+// for the socket bound to that inode, so every spelling of a path arrives at
-// through both filesystems, iget, dirlookup and stat -- a VFS change, not a
+// the same place and the node can be stat()ed and unlink()ed.
-// socket change. The table gives every behaviour that matters: a client
+//
-// finds a server by a name it agreed in advance, which is the whole job.
+// **Datagram and sequenced-packet sockets** share the ring with streams: each
-// What is lost is `ls -l /tmp/schcom` showing an `s`, and `unlink()` of a
+// message is a 16-byte header -- length and multicast groups, sender port or
-// socket path failing with ENOENT. Both are worth fixing when the VFS next
+// pid, sender uid and gid -- and then its bytes, so a read takes exactly one
-// gets opened up; neither blocks anything.
+// message and credentials belong to the message, not to the socket. udev's
+// workers share one end of a socketpair and the manager has to know which of
+// them wrote what. The kernel's uevents travel the same way, to netlink
+// sockets of protocol NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT.
 
 #include "core/types.h"
 #include "core/defs.h"

tools/posix/mkaroot.sh

@@ -121,37 +121,26 @@ cat > "$P/root/.xinitrc" <<'XEOF'
 exec wmaker
 XEOF
 
-# X's input devices, named rather than found. Alpine's Xorg asks udev for
+# X's input devices are found, not named: udevd (etc/schinit/udevd.job) turns
-# them, SchOS has no udev, and X came up with no keyboard and no mouse: the
+# the kernel's uevents into /run/udev data, and Xorg asks libudev for every
-# pointer did not move, Ctrl+Alt+F-keys did nothing and nothing could end the
+# device with ID_INPUT set. That was a hand-written list of event0 and event1
-# session. SchOS has exactly two input nodes whatever the machine -- every
+# while SchOS had no udev. The file is SchOS's, in xorg.conf.d, which no Alpine
-# keyboard on event0, every mouse on event1 (kernel/dev/input.c) -- so a
+# package writes into; what is left here is the options the defaults do not
-# fixed list is the whole answer. The file is SchOS's, in xorg.conf.d, which
+# give, and the framebuffer driver.
-# no Alpine package writes into.
 mkdir -p "$P/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d"
 cat > "$P/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-schos.conf" <<'XEOF'
-# SchOS has no udev, so X is told its input devices instead of finding them.
-# event0 is every keyboard and event1 every mouse (kernel/dev/input.c).
 Section "ServerFlags"
-    Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
     # Ctrl+Alt+Backspace ends X.
     Option "DontZap" "false"
 EndSection
 
-Section "InputDevice"
+Section "InputClass"
-    Identifier "keyboard"
+    Identifier "SchOS keyboards"
-    Driver "evdev"
+    MatchIsKeyboard "on"
-    Option "Device" "/dev/input/event0"
     Option "XkbRules" "evdev"
     Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
 EndSection
 
-Section "InputDevice"
-    Identifier "mouse"
-    Driver "evdev"
-    Option "Device" "/dev/input/event1"
-EndSection
-
 Section "Device"
     Identifier "fb"
     Driver "fbdev"
@@ -165,8 +154,6 @@ EndSection
 Section "ServerLayout"
     Identifier "schos"
     Screen "screen"
-    InputDevice "keyboard" "CoreKeyboard"
-    InputDevice "mouse" "CorePointer"
 EndSection
 XEOF