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Baremetal is now the default build target and therefore has its sources
at the top-level. Baremetal programs build using the phase-2 Mu toolchain
that requires a Linux kernel. This phase-2 codebase which used to be at
the top-level is now under the linux/ directory. Finally, the phase-2 toolchain,
while self-hosting, has a way to bootstrap from a C implementation, which
is now stored in linux/bootstrap. The bootstrap C implementation uses some
literate programming tools that are now in linux/bootstrap/tools.
So the whole thing has gotten inverted. Each directory should build one
artifact and include the main sources (along with standard library). Tools
used for building it are relegated to sub-directories, even though those
tools are often useful in their own right, and have had lots of interesting
programs written using them.
A couple of things have gotten dropped in this process:
- I had old ways to run on just a Linux kernel, or with a Soso kernel.
No more.
- I had some old tooling for running a single test at the cursor. I haven't
used that lately. Maybe I'll bring it back one day.
The reorg isn't done yet. Still to do:
- redo documentation everywhere. All the README files, all other markdown,
particularly vocabulary.md.
- clean up how-to-run comments at the start of programs everywhere
- rethink what to do with the html/ directory. Do we even want to keep
supporting it?
In spite of these shortcomings, all the scripts at the top-level, linux/
and linux/bootstrap are working. The names of the scripts also feel reasonable.
This is a good milestone to take stock at.
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Start adding some lines to the trace. Never shown yet.
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Holy crap, perhaps the limitations of int 13h were all a mirage. I just
needed to initialize the stack.
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This was tedious for three reasons beyond the usual one of having to
track and update offsets several time while I debug:
- The Bochs troubles of the previous commit kept polluting my brain
even though they were irrelevant.
- I had to keep some changes locally to allow myself to use Bochs,
which polluted my working directory.
- I had to travel the long way to the realization that I'm not
actually initializing the stack anywhere. BIOS was starting my stack
off at 0x10000, which was promptly clobbered by my second read from
disk.
The good news: while I'm here I grow the interrupt descriptor table. So
I don't have to go through this exercise when I get back to supporting
the mouse.
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I spent over a week agonizing over this.
* I had to come to terms with the fact that I don't really know how to
make pixel graphics testable. ASCII art on a pixel by pixel basis feels
inhuman. Just focus on text mode for now.
* I had to set aside the problem of non-English family languages.
Languages like Arabic that can stack complex graphemes together likely
can't be fixed-width. But I don't know enough at the moment to solve for
them.
* I spent a while trying to juggle two cursors, one invisible output
cursor for tracking the most recent print, and one visible one that's
just a hint to the user of what the next keystroke will do. But it looks
like I can fold both into a single cursor. Drawing things updates the
location of the cursor but doesn't display it. Explicitly moving the
cursor displays it, but future drawing can overwrite the cursor.
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It's not really manageable to make the fake screen pixel-oriented. Feels
excessive to compare things pixel by pixel when we will mostly be
writing text to screen. It'll also make expected screen assertions
more difficult to manage.
So I'm not sure how to make assertions about pixels for now. Instead
we'll introduce fake screens at draw-grapheme.
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It doesn't _quite_ do what it should, so this is more precisely the first
_buggy_ baremetal Mu program. But the tooling works, at least.
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