serial: make the log sink a build option, off by default

Serial is now a QEMU/dev aid, not a real-hardware necessity: a legacy-free board often has no live COM1, and the boot log is kept in RAM (klog) and flushed to disk. So the serial sink is compiled in only under -Dserial (default false).

- kernel.zig gates serialInit + the log sink on build_options.serial
- boot/efi.zig gates its EFI: progress breadcrumbs (con_out) via progress(); fatal-error messages stay always-on so a failed boot still explains itself
- run-x86-64 boots a serial-enabled image variant (factored addKernel/addBootImage helpers) so a dev boot always captures serial0, without baking serial into the flashable image
- test/qemu_test.py builds -Dserial=true (it asserts on serial markers)
- the loopback probe stays as a real-HW safety net for -Dserial images
This commit is contained in:
Daniel Samson
2026-07-13 22:05:08 +01:00
parent 4cb4f2a80f
commit 28b4dabbaa
5 changed files with 174 additions and 60 deletions
+12 -3
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@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ const std = @import("std");
const uefi = std.os.uefi;
const elf = std.elf;
const boot_handoff = @import("boot-handoff");
const build_options = @import("build_options");
const BootInformation = boot_handoff.BootInformation;
const GraphicsOutput = uefi.protocol.GraphicsOutput;
const EdidActive = uefi.protocol.edid.Active;
@@ -84,7 +85,7 @@ fn boot() !noreturn {
// the map and exiting would invalidate the map key.
const cr3 = try buildBootstrapTables(bs, &boot_information);
log("EFI: kernel loaded, exiting boot services\r\n");
progress("EFI: kernel loaded, exiting boot services\r\n");
boot_information.memory_map = try exitBootServices(bs);
// Switch onto our tables and jump to the kernel in one uninterruptible step.
@@ -395,7 +396,7 @@ fn loadInit(bs: *uefi.tables.BootServices, boot_information: *BootInformation) !
const image = try loadFile(bs, init_file_name);
boot_information.init_base = @intFromPtr(image.ptr);
boot_information.init_len = image.len;
log("EFI: /system/services/init loaded\r\n");
progress("EFI: /system/services/init loaded\r\n");
}
/// Ferry the initial_ramdisk (the VFS server + drivers) to the kernel, same as init.
@@ -403,7 +404,7 @@ fn loadInitialRamdisk(bs: *uefi.tables.BootServices, boot_information: *BootInfo
const image = try loadFile(bs, initial_ramdisk_file_name);
boot_information.initial_ramdisk_base = @intFromPtr(image.ptr);
boot_information.initial_ramdisk_len = image.len;
log("EFI: initial_ramdisk loaded\r\n");
progress("EFI: initial_ramdisk loaded\r\n");
}
/// Validate the ELF, copy every PT_LOAD segment to its physical address, and
@@ -561,6 +562,14 @@ fn log(comptime message: []const u8) void {
_ = out.outputString(std.unicode.utf8ToUtf16LeStringLiteral(message)) catch {};
}
/// A boot-progress breadcrumb: like `log`, but compiled out unless `-Dserial`
/// (off by default), so a real-hardware boot stays silent. Fatal errors use
/// `log` directly and always show, so a failed boot still explains itself.
fn progress(comptime message: []const u8) void {
if (!build_options.serial) return;
log(message);
}
/// Write a runtime ASCII byte string (e.g. an @errorName) by widening to UTF-16.
fn logBytes(bytes: []const u8) void {
const out = uefi.system_table.con_out orelse return;