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Sixty-five headers sat side by side in include/, so `#include "irq.h"` said nothing about where irq.h was or what it belonged to, and errno.h, stat.h and fcntl.h at the top shadowed the system's for any host tool built with -I./include. They are in folders now -- arch/ core/ fs/ dev/ gfx/ net/ uapi/ (and ldls/ for the Linux driver layer) -- and every include names the folder, as Linux's do: "core/proc.h". Done mechanically and checked the hard way: the kernel built from this tree disassembles identically to the one built from the tree before it. The full image boots, and userland is the same set of programs. Paths in docs and comments follow; docs/guides/layout.md has a table of what is where, and tools/fix-includes.py rewrites old-style includes from the folders in the tree, for code written before this. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01S1giNvrHTrPMPw7V6x1kQ4 |
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UEFI loader
The loader. This directory once existed only so the BIOS path could be moved
into boot/bios/ without pretending the split was hypothetical; it is now the
only path there is.
See ../README.md for the hand-off contract a loader has to satisfy. The
short version: the kernel wants long mode with paging on, its ELF segments
placed, a 24-byte-entry E820-shaped memory map, and framebuffer geometry — and
it does not care which firmware produced them.
What this will need, in rough order:
- A PE/COFF target. clang can emit one directly
(
--target=x86_64-unknown-windows -fuse-ld=lld-link), so no new toolchain: the same LLVM install already builds every other target here. - The handful of UEFI structures actually used — the system table, boot
services,
LOADED_IMAGE,SIMPLE_FILE_SYSTEM,GRAPHICS_OUTPUT. Written from the specification rather than by importing gnu-efi or EDK II, which is both a licence question and a large dependency for something this small. GetMemoryMaptranslated into the same 24-byte entriese820.calready parses. Not a second format for the kernel to learn.ExitBootServicesbefore touching the memory it described.- Graphics Output Protocol for the framebuffer, filling the same
VBE_INFO_ADDRstructure the kernel reads.
The image goes at EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.EFI on a FAT ESP, which also means the
ISO carries a single El Torito EFI entry.