Device manager (increment 3): the kernel stops spawning the bundle
Retire the kernel's spawn-every-initial-ramdisk-binary loop, resolving the
service/driver split into a real three-level supervision hierarchy:
kernel -> spawns init (PID 1) only, and publishes the initial-ramdisk
init -> the service supervisor: spawns the system services (vfs, device-manager)
device-manager -> spawns the drivers it matches (hpet)
The kernel now only hands the initial-ramdisk image to the process layer
(publishInitialRamdisk) so user space can system_spawn from it; it launches nothing
bundled itself. init gains a boot-services list ("vfs", "device-manager") and spawns
them best-effort before settling into its heartbeat — policy lives in user space,
where a microkernel keeps it. Drivers are absent from that list on purpose: the
device manager owns them. Test-only binaries (vfs-test, bus) no longer run at boot;
their kernel self-tests still spawn them directly.
This removes increment 2's transitional double-spawn: a real boot now brings hpet up
exactly once (verified — kernel -> init -> vfs/device-manager -> hpet, zero "claim
failed"). The automated suite is unaffected: test builds run their case and halt
before the normal boot path, so each already spawns its own binaries. Suite 36/36
plus host tests; normal boot verified by hand under QEMU.
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@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ const scheduler = @import("scheduler.zig");
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const process = @import("process.zig");
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const devices_broker = @import("devices-broker.zig");
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const irq = @import("irq.zig");
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const initial_ramdisk = @import("initial-ramdisk");
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const platform = @import("platform");
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const tests = @import("tests.zig");
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const build_options = @import("build_options");
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@@ -272,10 +271,16 @@ fn kmain(boot_information: *const BootInformation) noreturn {
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log.checkpoint(cp_running);
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status("kernel initialised.\n");
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// Hand over to user space: load /system/services/init (read off the boot volume by the
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// loader) and spawn it as a real ring-3 process, PID 1. It runs on its own
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// address space, preemptively, alongside the kernel — no cooperative
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// borrowing. This boot context then becomes the BSP's idle loop.
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// Publish the initial-ramdisk so user space can `system_spawn` its bundled
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// binaries by name. The kernel no longer launches them itself: init is the
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// service supervisor and the device manager spawns the drivers it discovers.
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publishInitialRamdisk(boot_information);
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// Hand over to user space: load /system/services/init (read off the boot volume by
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// the loader) and spawn it as a real ring-3 process, PID 1. As the supervisor it
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// brings up the system services (the VFS server, the device manager); the device
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// manager then discovers the hardware and spawns each driver. init runs on its own
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// address space, preemptively — this boot context becomes the BSP's idle loop.
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if (boot_information.init_len != 0) {
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status("starting /system/services/init...\n");
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const image = @as([*]const u8, @ptrFromInt(boot_handoff.physicalToVirtual(boot_information.init_base)))[0..boot_information.init_len];
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@@ -286,38 +291,22 @@ fn kmain(boot_information: *const BootInformation) noreturn {
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status("no /system/services/init on the boot volume.\n");
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}
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// Spawn the extra user binaries the loader ferried in the initial_ramdisk (the VFS
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// server, and later device drivers). For now the kernel launches them all;
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// once init is a real service supervisor it will spawn them itself (system_spawn).
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startInitialRamdiskBinaries(boot_information);
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// Become the idle task: drop below every real task and halt until an
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// interrupt. The timer keeps preempting into init and any other work.
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scheduler.setPriority(0);
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status("\nkernel idle; /system/services/init is running.\n");
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status("\nkernel idle; user space is running.\n");
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architecture.halt();
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}
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/// Spawn every program bundled in the initial_ramdisk as its own ring-3 process. A bad
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/// image or a program that fails to load is logged and skipped — the rest of the
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/// system still runs.
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fn startInitialRamdiskBinaries(boot_information: *const boot_handoff.BootInformation) void {
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/// Publish the initial-ramdisk image to the process layer so user space can
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/// `system_spawn` its bundled binaries by name. The kernel used to spawn every
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/// bundled program here; now init (the service supervisor) and the device manager
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/// (drivers) own that, so this only hands the image over — nothing is launched from
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/// the kernel.
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fn publishInitialRamdisk(boot_information: *const boot_handoff.BootInformation) void {
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if (boot_information.initial_ramdisk_len == 0) return;
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const image = @as([*]const u8, @ptrFromInt(boot_handoff.physicalToVirtual(boot_information.initial_ramdisk_base)))[0..boot_information.initial_ramdisk_len];
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// Hand the image to the process layer so user space can `system_spawn` from it.
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process.setInitialRamdisk(image);
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const rd = initial_ramdisk.Reader.init(image) orelse {
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status("initial_ramdisk: bad image, skipping\n");
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return;
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};
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var i: u32 = 0;
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while (i < rd.count) : (i += 1) {
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const item = rd.entry(i) orelse continue;
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statusPrint("starting {s} (from initial-ramdisk)...\n", .{item.name});
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process.spawnProcess(item.blob, 4) catch |err| {
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statusPrint("initial_ramdisk: {s} failed to load: {s}\n", .{ item.name, @errorName(err) });
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};
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}
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}
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/// Wake the application processors the firmware left parked. Allocates the low
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