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Split the system contract into boot-handoff / abi / device-abi

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The `system` module (formerly `danos`) had become a grab-bag: it held the
loader<->kernel handoff *and* the kernel<->user ABI *and* the device wire types, in
one module three different audiences imported. Usage proved the seam — the
bootloader never touched the syscall/device ABI, and user space never touched the
boot handoff — so split it by audience, one module per contract:

  system/boot-handoff.zig       loader <-> kernel: BootInformation, Framebuffer,
                                MemoryMap, the VM layout + physicalToVirtual, kernel_abi
  system/abi.zig                kernel <-> user, core: SystemCall, mmap prot flags,
                                page_size, notify_badge_bit, ServiceId
  system/devices/device-abi.zig kernel <-> user, devices: DeviceDescriptor,
                                DeviceClass, ResourceDescriptor, ResourceKind, ...

device-abi is the devices sub-project's public interface, exposed as its own module
the way vfs exposes vfs-protocol — importable by user space, unlike the
kernel-internal device model it also feeds. That collapses a real duplication:
DeviceClass and ResourceKind were defined twice (device-model.zig and the contract,
kept "in sync by hand"); device-model now re-exports them from device-abi, so the
enum a driver matches on and the one the kernel classifies with are one type.

Each import now declares which contract it speaks: the bootloader imports only
boot-handoff; a driver only abi + device-abi (via the runtime); the kernel all
three. This also retires the `system` / `runtime.system` name overlap. page_size
lands in abi (it's part of the mmap contract user space aligns to); the bootloader
keeps its own local 4 KiB constant so it depends on nothing but the handoff.

All 21 importers rewired, docs updated to keep /system mapping to source. Build,
host tests, and the QEMU suite (36/36) all green.
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Daniel Samson
2026-07-10 18:08:51 +01:00
parent 47610e8ee2
commit be81394be3
37 changed files with 395 additions and 337 deletions
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
//! build.zig — no change to the generic code. Keep everything CPU-specific here
//! (halt, the descriptor tables, later paging), and nothing generic.
const system = @import("system");
const boot_handoff = @import("boot-handoff");
const parameters = @import("parameters");
const gdt = @import("gdt.zig");
const tss = @import("tss.zig");
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ pub fn init() void {
/// Build the kernel's own page tables (with real permissions) and switch onto
/// them. Needs the frame allocator and the boot info (for the memory map and the
/// kernel's segment layout). Call once the frame allocator is up.
pub fn enablePaging(allocFrame: *const fn () ?u64, freeFrame: *const fn (u64) void, boot_information: *const system.BootInformation) void {
pub fn enablePaging(allocFrame: *const fn () ?u64, freeFrame: *const fn (u64) void, boot_information: *const boot_handoff.BootInformation) void {
paging.init(allocFrame, freeFrame, boot_information);
}