The system now boots off a real FAT32 filesystem on a USB mass-storage device
instead of QEMU's synthesized VVFAT drive. A new in-repo image builder formats
that filesystem from the FHS boot tree, and both QEMU call sites (the run step
and the test harness) attach it as a usb-storage device on the xHCI bus, so
every boot exercises the full USB path OVMF -> BOOTX64.efi -> kernel.
- tools/make-fat-image.py: a Python 3 stdlib-only FAT32 formatter (mirrors
tools/make-initial-ramdisk.py — no external host dependencies). It lays down
the boot sector + BPB/EBPB32, FSInfo, backup boot sector, two FATs, and the
root/subdir/file cluster chains, emitting long-name entries where a name is
not 8.3. Packs the four boot inputs (EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi, system/kernel,
system/services/init, boot/initial-ramdisk.img) into their boot paths. A
--verify subcommand re-checks the 0xAA55 signature, recomputes the cluster
count -> FAT32, and resolves EFI/BOOT/BOOTX64.efi, all with no dependencies.
- build.zig: a mk_fat step builds zig-out/danos-usb.img from the four boot
artifacts (so changing -Dtest-case rebuilds the image with that kernel), a
check-fat-image step runs --verify, and run-x86-64 boots the image on a
usb-storage device (if=none,id=bootusb + usb-storage,bus=xhci.0,bootindex=0),
keeping usb-kbd/usb-mouse on the same controller.
- test/qemu_test.py: the default boot config now boots off danos-usb.img on a
usb-storage device (xHCI + usb-kbd + usb-mouse + the boot stick). The seven
per-case qemu_extra blocks that added their own qemu-xhci/usb-kbd/usb-mouse
(or a VVFAT stick) collided on id=xhci and are removed — the default provides
the bus and the boot device. usb-storage and fat-mount now exercise the real
FAT32 boot image (usb-storage reads its 0x55AA boot sector; fat mounts it at
/mnt/usb). A build_case override lets a case reuse another's kernel, used by a
new usb-boot case: an explicit, named boot-from-USB regression guard.
Verified: zig build, zig build test, and zig build check-fat-image are green
(FAT32, 128992 clusters, BOOTX64.efi present); a broad sequential QEMU sweep
passes — smoke, init, vfs, input, device-manager, usb-report, usb-hid,
usb-storage, fat-mount, device-list, driver-restart, acpi-report, iommu,
orderly-shutdown, usb-boot, dma, msi, initial-ramdisk, args, process — proving
the boot switch holds across kernel tests, the full init tree, the USB stack,
the FAT mount, and orderly shutdown.
Daniel Samson