This patch moves the management of view IDs from the server to the
client side. The former 'create_view' and 'create_child_view'
operations do no longer return a view ID but take a view ID as
argument. While changing those operations, this patch takes the
opportunity to allow for initial view attributes. Combined, those
changes simplify the window manager while accommodating typical
client use cases with less code.
To ease the client-side ID management, the Gui::Connection hosts
a 'view_ids' ID space for optional use. E.g., the new 'Top_level_view'
class uses this ID space for ID allocation. This class accommodates the
most typical use case of opening a single window.
The 'alloc_view_id' RPC function is no longer needed.
Issue #5242
This patch eliminates the use of invalid view handles as special
Session::Command arguments. The TO_FRONT and TO_BACK operations
interpreted as invalid neighbor as top-most or back-most position.
Those corner cases are now expressed via dedicated commands. The
new stacking commands are FRONT, BACK, FRONT_OF, and BEHIND_OF.
While changing the command interface, the patch removes the OP_
prefix from the opcode values.
Issue #5242
- Rename framebuffer_session to framebuffer and
input_session to input as those RPC interfaces are no longer
meant to be used as stand-alone sessions.
- Host Connection::input and Connection::framebuffer as public
members, thereby removing the use of pointers. This simplifies
the client-sized code. E.g., '_gui.input()->pending()' becomes
'_gui.input.pending()'.
Issue #5242
- Move header to base/include to make it applicable for base types
like 'Affinity' down the road.
- Represent 'Rect' as typle of point and area, which is the most
common form of initialization, creates in valid 'Rect' by default.
- Turn Point, Area, and Rect into compound types, making x, y, w, h, at,
area accessible without a method call
- 'Rect::Compound' function for constructing a 'Rect' from two points,
replacing a former constructor
- Use result type 'Rect::Cut_remainder' instead of out parameters.
Fixes#5239
This patch turns 'Color' from a class to a POD type by replacing
the constructors by the named create functions 'rgb', 'clamped_rgb',
and 'clamped_rgba'. It thereby enables the initialization of Color
values using { .r = ... } syntax and makes the type usable in const
expressions.
It also narrows the type for color components and alpha values to
uint8_t. So possible integer overflows of computed values are detected
by -Wconversion.
As 'Color::rgb(0, 0, 0)' is repeatedly used as a default value, the
patch adds the 'Color::black()' function.
Fixes#5238
This patch mirrors the interface of Sculpt's distant_runtime to the
sandboxed_runtime variant, allowing the configuration of xpos, ypos,
min_width, min_height, opaque, and background color.
Issue #5008
This patch moves the text-editing facility of app/text_area to a
text-area widget as part of the dialog library. This has two benefits.
First, it simplifies app/text_area by using the dialog API. Second, the
editor can now easily be reused by other dialog-API-based applications.
Fixes#5058
The 'Dynamic_array' utility is used by the text_area as internal
representation of text. As a prerequisite step of making the text
editing features generally available as a text-area widget, the
utility must become public.
Issue #5008
This method allows for the inquiry of the current hovering state,
e.g., to suppress an update of the Wifi accesspoint list while
the list is hovered.
Issue #5008
Issue #5053
The new API at gems/include/dialog/ aids the creation of simple GUI
applications based on the menu-view widget renderer. Its use is
illustrated by the simple test application at src/test/dialog/
that is accompanied with the dialog.run script.
Issue #5008
* ARM support and detaching from Ada/SPARK
* Remove all CBE-related code - especially the Ada/SPARK-based CBE library.
* We have no means or motivation of further maintaining big projects in
Ada/SPARK (the core Genode team is native to C++).
* The Genode Ada/SPARK toolchain and runtime don't support ARM so far - an
important architecture for Genode. This would mean extra commitment in
Ada/SPARK.
* We realize that block encryption more and more becomes a fundamental
feature of Genode systems.
* Implement a new block encryption library named Tresor that is inspired by
the design and feature set of the former CBE library and that is entirely
C++ and part of the Genode gems repository.
* The Tresor block encryption is backwards-compatible with the on-disk
data layout of the former CBE block encryption.
* Except from the snapshot management and the "dump" tool, the Tresor
block encryption provides the same feature set as the former CBE block
encryption and accepts the same user requests at the level of the
Tresor library API.
* So far, the Tresor block encryption does not support the creation of
user-defined snapshots.
* In contrast to the former CBE, the Tresor ecosystem has
no "dump" tool beause with the CBE library it turned out to be rarely of
use.
* In contrast to the Block back-end of the CBE "init" tool, the Tresor
"init" tool uses a File System back-end.
* The former CBE VFS-plugin is replaced with a new Tresor VFS-Plugin.
* The Tresor-VFS plugin in general is similar to the former CBE VFS but
has a slightly different API when it comes to re-keying and re-sizing.
Each of these operations now is controlled via two files. The first
file is named <operation> and the user writes the start command to it.
The user must then read this file once in order to drive the operation.
The read returns the result of the operation, once it is finished.
The second file is named <operation>_progress and can be watched and
read for obtaining the progress of the operation as percentage.
* The file vault is adapted to use the new Tresor ecosystem
instead of the former CBE ecosystem and thereby also gains ARM support.
* The former CBE tester and CBE VFS-tests are replaced by equivalent
Tresor variants and are now run on ARM as well (testing with a persistent
storage back-end is supported only when running on Linux).
* So far, the new Tresor block encryption has no internal cache for meta
data blocks like the former CBE.
* Add config/report user interface
* Add a second option for the administration front end to the file vault
named "config and report". With this front end the File Vault communicates
with the user via XML strings. A ROM session is requested for user input
and a Report session for user output. The front end type must be set at
startup via the component config and is a static setting. The graphical
front end that was used up to now is named "menu view" and remains the
default.
* The File Vault can now reflect its internal state and user input ("config
and report" mode only) at the LOG session via two new static config
attributes "verbose_state" and "verbose_ui_config" (both defaulting to
"no").
* The Shutdown button in "menu view" mode is replaced with a Lock button. The
new button doesn't terminate the File Vault but merely lock the encrypted
container and return to a cleared passphrase input. The same transition is
also provided in "config and report" mode.
* The file_vault.run script is replaced with file_vault_menu_view.run and
file_vault_cfg_report.run that address the two front end modes. In contrast
to the former script, which is interactive, the latter script is suitable
for automatic testing.
* There is a new recipe/pkg/test-file_vault_cfg_report that essentially does
the same as file_vault_cfg_report.run but uses the File Vault package and
can be executed with the Depot Autopilot. The new test package is added to
the default test list of depot_autopilot.run
* The File Vault README is updated to the new version of the component and
has gained a chapter "functional description".
* Fixes a regression with the cbe_init_trust_anchor component that prevented
reacting to a failed unlock attempt in the File Vault.
* The new Tresor software Trust Anchor has an optional deterministic mode in
which it replaces the normally randomized symmetric keys with 0. This mode
comes in handy for debugging. However, it should never be activated in
productive systems. When activated, the user is warned extensively on the
LOG that this system mode is insecure.
Ref #4819
The 'file_size' type denotes the size of files on disk in bytes. On
32-bit architectures it is larger than the size_t, which refers to
in-memory object sizes.
Whereas the use of 'file_size' is appropriate for ftruncate and seek, it
is not a suitable type for the parameters of read/write operations
because those operations refer to in-memory buffers.
This patch replaces the use of 'file_size' by size_t. However, since it
affects all sites where the read/write interface is uses, it takes the
opportunity to replace the C-style (pointer, size) arguments by
'Byte_range_ptr' and 'Const_byte_range_ptr'.
Issue #4706
This patch enhances the depot_download subsystem with support for
downloading and querying system images.
The installation ROM support the following two now download types:
<image_index path="<user>/image/index"/>
<image path="<user>/image/<name>"/>
Internally, the depot-download subsystem employs the depot-query
component to determine the missing depot content. This component
accepts the following two new queries:
<images user="..."/>
<image_index user="..."/>
If present in the query, depot_query generates reports labeled as
"images" and "image_index" respectively.
The also tracks the completion of each job depending on the depot-
query results, so that the final report contains a result for each
installation item requested. Prior this patch, the inactivity of the
depot-download manager (indicated by an empty state report) was
interpreted as success. But that prevents the proper association of
results and requested installation items.
Issue #4744
Each time when enlarging the menu view, a new 'Gui_buffer' is
constructed with the new size. At its contruction time, the default
reset background color is in effect, which is evaluated by
'reset_surface' as part of the construction. A custom reset color
takes effect only after the construction. Hence, when the Gui_buffer is
flushed to screen immediately at construction time, the gray default
becomes visible for a short time.
This patch changes the Gui_buffer to accept the reset background color
as construction argument so that it takes immediate effect.
Related to #4592
This patch removes the 'Insufficient_buffer' exception by returning the
WRITE_ERR_WOULD_BLOCK result value instead. It also eliminates the
superfluous WRITE_ERR_AGAIN and WRITE_ERR_INTERRUPT codes.
Issue #4697
The `with_sub_node` method is renamed to `with_optional_sub_node` to
better reflect that the non-existence of a sub node with the desired type is
ignored.
At the same time, the new `with_sub_node` now takes a second functor that is
called when no sub node of the desired type exists.
genodelabs/genode#4600
This patch enhances menu_view with the optional configuration attributes
'opaque' and 'background'. Setting 'opaque' to "yes" suppresses the use
of the alpha channel at the GUI session. This improves the drawing
performance by 20% on the PinePhone. Since the menu_view uses the
gems/gui_buffer.h utility, the 'Gui_buffer' received a new 'Alpha'
argument at construction time.
The 'background' attribute can be specified to define the reset color of
the GUI buffer. It alleviates the need to create a frame widget for the
top level.
The patch also switches the optimization level for compiling menu_view
to -O3, which increases the drawing performance on the PinePhone by 30%.
Fixes#4592
Switch the code to 0 lengh array instead. The code in
Lru_cache::element_size calls sizeof on this structure. This works in
gcc, but fails when using clang. Even for GCC however the documentation
states:
"Flexible array members have incomplete type, and so the sizeof operator
may not be applied. As a quirk of the original implementation of
zero-length arrays, sizeof evaluates to zero."
Basically its an implementation quirk that clang does not support. Both
GCC and clang do support zero sized arrays however so using them here
allows both compilers to process this code.
Ref: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Zero-Length.html
Issue #4421
This patch changes the 'Allocator' interface to the use of 'Attempt'
return values instead of using exceptions for propagating errors.
To largely uphold compatibility with components using the original
exception-based interface - in particluar use cases where an 'Allocator'
is passed to the 'new' operator - the traditional 'alloc' is still
supported. But it existes merely as a wrapper around the new
'try_alloc'.
Issue #4324
The unlocking operation in the trust anchor was broken wich caused bad keys in
the CBE. This rewrites the whole operation to work as desired. Note that this
doesn't make it more safe! The private key is still almost the same as the
passphrase and stored plaintext.
Ref #4032
Closing the hashfile handle after a write operation wasn't synchronised to the
actual end of the write operation.
Issuing a write operation at the back end returns successfull as soon as the
back end has acknowledged that it will execute the operation. However, the
actual writing of the data might still be in progress at this point. But the
plugin used to close the file handle and declare the operation finished at this
point which led to warnings about acks on unknown file handles and leaking
resources. Now, the plugin issues a sync operation directly after the write
operation and waits for the sync to complete. This ensures that the plugin
doesn't declare the operation finished too early.
Ref #4032
This patch fixes a GCC-10 compile error. Even though the optimization
was quite effective - I measured a speedup of factor 2 - it is not all
that important for the overall application performance. In the nano3d
case, we are talking about 1 vs. 2 percent of CPU time.
Fixes#4140
The code fails to build with clang due to the following warning/error:
error: '_INCLUDE__NANO3D__SQRT_H_' is used as a header guard here,
followed by #define of a different macro [-Werror,-Wheader-guard]
Fix this by removing the extra underscore from this header guard
definition.
Issue #3985
