drewdevault

drewdevault, 2 days ago (edited 2 days ago)

@MadMike77 I need an x86-64 laptop with a serial port

drewdevault, 2 days ago

@MadMike77 no

drewdevault, 2 days ago

@herag 220 or X220? Only the former has a serial port

drewdevault, 5 days ago

I think tomorrow's goals are:

1. Implement sbrk (I've been avoiding it) and switch from my buggy malloc to musl's malloc
2. Get working tcc, binutils, and Hare toolchains, plus make, into the base distribution

drewdevault, 5 days ago

@puppygirlhornypost C11. The gcc port does not work natively yet but I added a Bunnix target to gcc and built a cross compiler

drewdevault, 5 days ago

@dalias hot take: malloc-ng should use mmap, not sbrk

drewdevault, 5 days ago

@puppygirlhornypost ELF

drewdevault, 5 days ago

Bunnix says good morning

drewdevault, 5 days ago

Implemented brk(2) so I could drop in malloc-ng from musl (rather than my buggy hand-made malloc), C toolchain is much more stable now

I also implemented clock_gettime as shown in the last screenshot, so make doesn't bitch about the clock anymore.

drewdevault, 5 days ago

Got GCC working

(Fixed the readlink issue separately)

g++ also works, but adding libstdc++ to the initrd makes it too big and some stuff breaks. Could run it off of ext4 but there's some issues with the ext4 implementation (namely that binutils depends on lseeking beyond the end of the file to create a hole)

drewdevault, 5 days ago

Just messing around, anyway. I don't intend to ship gcc in the base system (going with tcc instead). I do intend to ship binutils, though, so that you can have a working Hare toolchain, but that'll depend on fixing this lseek issue

drewdevault, 5 days ago

@dalias according to my reading it needed it to return the initial break, but not change it, so I just implemented that much.

drewdevault, 5 days ago

@dalias yeah, on a second reading I see the ENOSYS case. Cheers!

drewdevault, 4 days ago

Built out a small system for packaging ports in .tar.gz files and dumping them in /dist, plus a small script to automate their installation -- so I can ship some optional package sets.

First one is "devel", which includes make and tcc.

drewdevault, 4 days ago

drewdevault, 4 days ago

Why do these blasted serial ports never generate interrupts

drewdevault, 4 days ago

There we go

drewdevault, 4 days ago

@katzenmann write only access to the kernel console

drewdevault, 4 days ago

@katzenmann see /dev/console on Linux

Eventually you'll be able to read the kernel logs ring buffer from it ala dmesg

drewdevault, 3 days ago

Day 24 of building a Unix from scratch

It's official

Video of Doom being played on Bunnix

drewdevault, 3 days ago

So, tomorrow-ish I bundle this all up and put it in the base distribution

Today:

• New syscalls: ioctl, mmap supports mapping files (namely /dev/fb0)
• Serial TTY
• VT overhauled, early fbcons split from runtime vt
• some termios support
• Framebuffer device (/dev/fb0)
• Controlling tty (via /dev/tty)

Getting married tomorrow, no further updates for a while 🎉

drewdevault, 3 days ago

My goal was low-key to get doom working before the wedding