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.
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SchOS will not write its own compositor. projects/schcom, its test and its make targets are deleted. roadmap.md section 5 is
now the road to Wayland (udev/eudev, a /sys/devices tree and uevent netlink, libinput and libseat, a DRM device via the GPU
plan) and 5b is the boot manager rework (Niveus/skeuomorphic UEFI GUI). XLibre, Xorg or a Wayland compositor from Alpine,
whichever suits; Xorg for now.
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1.0: the acceptance test drops its reboot clause (a live system is the finish line) and passes. Schcom is kept with a
job: the installer's GUI first, SchDE on top later (roadmap section 5). The old 'LDLS ships no Linux code' policy is
gone from ldls/devices/licensing/Makefile/.gitignore/ldlsd; NOTICE records the r8169 modules (GPL-2.0-only) and the
Realtek firmware. The download button points at the v0.1.0 release asset; the stale 64 MB ISO under docs/Website is
removed. mkaroot.sh's -dumbSched comment no longer claims SchOS has no threads.
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README: rewritten around what runs (Linux software, Xorg, apk, Linux's drivers), the honest gaps, measured numbers.
plan/: 1.0.md is the finish line, where each clause of the acceptance test stands, and the register (one failing
clause: a root that survives a reboot); built plans (foundations, hybrid, alpine, xorg) and the decided-against one
(wayland) are gone, their content lives in architecture/; roadmap.md is only what is still open.
guides: building/layout/testing/adding-a-driver (Linux code may be used). history: four entries (ls -lR, TLB
shootdowns, MDIO 0x02460246, netlink MSG_TRUNC). Website: cards, stack, download page, docs index.
Code comments that pointed at deleted plan docs point at the architecture docs.
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A native driver written from the NVMe 1.4 base specification. It resets
the controller the firmware left running, then sets up an admin queue and
one I/O queue pair. Completion is polled, with interrupts disabled at the
queue, for the same reason AHCI polls: without AML, interrupt routing on
real hardware cannot be trusted. Each active namespace with 512-byte to
4 KB sectors and no metadata is registered as nvme<C>n<N>, the name
Linux uses, and its GPT is read like any other disk's.
Tested under QEMU q35: disk.img on NVMe as the only disk boots through
OVMF, roots on nvme0n1p2, and writes read back after sync. A
4 KB-sector namespace registers.
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Devices can now arrive and leave after boot. A "usbhotplug" kernel thread
handles root-port changes, which it is told about by Port Status Change
events and also checks for every quarter second. It also handles changes
behind hubs, which each hub reports on its status-change endpoint. An
unplugged device has its endpoints closed and any transfer in flight
failed. Then its drivers' disconnect hooks run, the slot is disabled and
its memory is freed. Everything behind a hub that goes goes with it. This
needed the interrupt handler to file command and endpoint-0 completions
for their waiters, so that enumeration can run while keyboards interrupt.
On real hardware: the controller is taken from the firmware through USB
Legacy Support before reset, with SMIs off. On Intel 7/8/9 series parts
the ports are switched over from EHCI, which is where firmware leaves
them.
Every interface of a device is offered to the class drivers, not just
the first, so a receiver's mouse on interface 1 gets a driver. Configure
Endpoint now copies the slot context from the controller. Before, it
rebuilt it and lost the route string and TT fields of devices behind
hubs.
HID: pointers are read in report protocol from their report descriptor.
That covers buttons, X/Y and wheel, relative or absolute, and report IDs.
Boot protocol is kept as the fallback for mice and for keyboards.
Non-pointer HID interfaces are declined rather than treated as tablets.
USB keyboards get software key repeat. Mass storage handles up to four
sticks, each unregistered from the block layer when it is pulled out,
along with its cached blocks.
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The site and several documents still described the system as it was before
virtual terminals, the new schinit, the hybrid work and descriptor passing.
docs/architecture/init.md described the wrong program. It documented a single
schinit that parses manifests and supervises jobs, which has not been true since
PID 1 was split: PID 1 forks a supervisor, spawns jobs on its behalf and reaps;
the job table lives in /proc/schinit; a heartbeat runs both ways; and
proc_reincarnate() re-execs PID 1 in place rather than panicking. Rewritten
around what exists, keeping the reasoning that is still load-bearing -- the five
failures of the sibling-init scheme, the escalation ladder, and the three bugs in
the reincarnation path that each had to happen before they were obvious.
docs/plan/init.md is deleted, which is the tree's own rule for finished work and
had not been applied. Fourteen source comments referenced it by part number, so
they are repointed at the architecture doc by section name rather than left
dangling -- a deleted document nobody notices is worse than a stale one.
docs/architecture/devices.md gained the section it has been missing since
/dev/pci existed: what a driver needs from a kernel, why mmap is checked against
the caller's claims, why DMA is a call and not a mapping, and why the write back
after an interrupt is not optional. Also that a released device does not come
back by itself, which is true and was nowhere.
docs/architecture/networking.md gained a descriptor-passing section, and
docs/architecture/README.md's stack diagram gained the two layers and the third
seam it was missing. "Two seams hold the whole thing together" has not been true
since /dev/pci.
docs/plan/README.md said the hybrid work was deliberately last, on the argument
that an interface with no consumer is wrong in ways nobody can see. The argument
was right; the conclusion was not, and the document now says why it changed --
the alternative to a driver compatibility layer is writing a driver for every
device that exists, and the original objection is answered rather than ignored
because SchOS's own drivers are the consumers.
The site: a Hybrid section with the eviction transcript, cards for virtual
terminals, schinit and drivers outside the kernel, and the numbers remeasured
rather than estimated -- 46,961 lines, 207 syscalls. The boot log in app.js is
from a boot taken today, and the lines are trimmed to what the console can show
without clipping, each still a verbatim prefix of real output.
Two small rendering fixes found by looking at the pages rather than assuming:
.console pre's min-height is now scoped to the hero, so a static transcript sizes
to its content instead of reserving eight lines it does not have; and the docs
reader's contents panel strips inline marks from headings, so a heading written
`proc_reincarnate()` no longer carries its backticks into the sidebar.
Every intra-doc link checked; none broken.
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The network thread waited on the timer and nothing else, so a frame that landed
just after a poll sat in the ring for up to 10 ms -- the largest fixed latency in
the system. That was deliberate when the stack was new (a receive path woken by
an interrupt is much harder to debug than one that is asked) and there is now a
working stack to compare against, which is exactly when it becomes safe to do.
The frame is still *pulled* by the thread through .receive. It has to be: a call
into lwIP can reach the driver, the driver can sleep on the buffer cache, and an
interrupt handler may do neither. netdev_rx_signal() delivers nothing and reads
no ring -- it only ends the wait early.
The wait stays on the timer tick rather than moving to a channel of its own, and
that is the design. lwIP's timers must still run when the link is silent, so the
clock has to remain a floor under the wait, and sleep() cannot wait on two things
at once. Joining the tick's existing wakeup costs nothing and leaves one wait
with one predicate.
rx_signal lives under tickslock for the same reason it gets no lock of its own:
sleep() releases tickslock atomically, so a driver setting the flag and waking
under that lock cannot lose the wakeup by arriving between the predicate test and
the sleep. A private lock would not be held across the sleep, and that window
would be back. Calling it from interrupt context is safe on the same terms the
timer handler already relies on -- acquire() disables interrupts, so a CPU
holding tickslock cannot be interrupted into it.
The e1000 signals on RXT0 (a frame or burst has landed) and RXDMT0 (the ring has
fallen below its threshold, which is when waiting for the clock hurts most).
Measured rather than asserted: /proc/netif reports wake_rx and wake_tick, and
across three pings rx_frames and wake_rx both went 2 -> 6 -- every received frame
woke the thread through the interrupt. wake_tick keeps advancing as the idle
floor, which is what lwIP's timers need. socktest still passes and ping is still
0% loss.
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docs/ was ten files where a plan, a description, a guide and a bug report all
sat next to each other. It is now architecture/ (what SchOS is), plan/ (what it
will be), guides/ (how to work on it) and history/ (why it is like this), with
an index that states the one rule holding it together: when something is
finished it moves from plan/ to architecture/ and is rewritten as a description
of the thing rather than a record of building it.
A ticked checkbox says the work happened. It does not say what the work
*produced*, and six months later the checkbox is all that is left. The network
stack proved the point: finished, verified end to end, and for a month the only
description of it anywhere was a checkbox four levels of indentation deep.
So roadmap.md went from 534 lines to 181 -- nothing deleted, the done work
graduated. Seven subsystems that were finished and undescribed now have
descriptions: boot, kernel, syscalls, filesystem, networking, graphics, usb,
init. Every one ends with "What it does not do", which is the section that pays;
a document listing only strengths is marketing, and the reader who needs it most
is the one about to trip over a limitation nobody wrote down.
schfs.md still opened with "phases 1 through 3 1/2 are done, phase 4 is next"
long after all five had landed. It is a description now, with the phase record
and the hard-won bugs moved to history/.
Three corrections found on the way, all load-bearing:
* projects/schcom/README.md claimed SCM_RIGHTS was done. There is no
sendmsg/recvmsg in the kernel at all, and an entire GUI plan rested on it.
* The root README said "No TCP/IP" months after the stack landed.
* history/kernel.md sec.7 was marked "in progress" on a problem that process
groups solved.
Also adds plan/1.0.md, which draws a finish line so the open list stops being
infinite, and marks schwm/ and schde/ superseded: in Wayland the compositor is
the window manager, so that split dissolves rather than being abandoned.
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