With the recent change of Genode's development process and the switch to
GitHub, the contributions document has become a bit outdated. I rewrote
the document in a tutorial-like style and incorporated several practical
hints, in particular related to the recommended use of Git.
The patch fixes a corner-case problem with using the two-byte 'INT 0'
instruction for breakpoints. The fix changes the breakpoint instruction
to the single-byte 'HLT'. 'HLT' is a privileged instruction and triggers
an exception when executed in user mode. Patch by Christian Prochaska.
The new 'gdb_monitor_interactive.run' script extends the original
'gdb_monitor.run' script with a startup sequence that automates the
initial break-in at the main function of a dynamically linked binary.
Patch by Christian Prochaska.
When reading the values of environment variables supplied via Genode
config mechanism, the XML attribute values were taken as is. On the libc
side, however, the values are processed using Genode's 'Arg_string'
functions. When unquoted, 'Arg_string' expects values to be either
identifiers or numbers. In the general case, however, env values cannot
be expected to satisfy these requirements. Hence, it is better to always
quote these values when reading the XML config. An alternative (maybe
better) solution would be to not use the 'Arg_string' classes in the
libc side.
At the startup of python's termios module, a sequence of 'tcgetattr' and
'tcsetattr' calls is executed. If one of those calls fails, the
initialization gets canceled. 'tcgetattr' is implemented via ioctl
operations on stdout. To let those operations succeed, the default
implementation of ioctl ('Plugin::ioctl') cannot be used because it
returns -1. Adding a dummy ioctl to the libc_log back end alleviates
this problem.
In addition to autogen and autoconf, the tool-chain build script
requires ncurses (for building GDB), wget (to download the tool-chain
source code), and texinfo. Let the tool check if these packages are
installed instead of failing later during the build.
MuPDF is a fast and versatile PDF rendering library with only a few
dependencies. It depends on openjpeg (JPEG2000 codec) and jbig2dec (b/w
image compression library). Therefore, this patch comprises the ports of
these libraries as well. All libraries compile well in the Genode build
system but are not tested yet.
This patch sets the ECHO flag for the TIOCGETA ioctrl operation. This
flag is examined by libreadline to control the policy of echoing user
input. This patch in needed to run bash in interactive mode in Noux.
Removed dummy implementation of '_ioctl'. This function is called
internally within the libc, i.e., by 'tcgetattr'. For running
libreadline in Noux, we need to hook into those ioctl operations via
the libc plugin interface.
This patch changes decouples the conversion of the terminal state to
pixels from the write RPC function. Intermediate terminal states
produced by sub sequential write operations do not end up on screen one
by one but only the final state becomes visible. This drastically
improves the speed of scrolling through large text output.
Move the definition of '_GNU_SOURCE' from 'import-lx_hybrid.mk' to
'import-syscall.mk' because this definition may (potentially) affect all
programs that include Linux headers installed on the host - not only
hybrid Linux/Genode programs. Fixes#52
This patch prevents 'fb_sdl' from wrongly using SDL headers located in
the libports repository. We have to make sure to use the headers
installed on the host system.
Properly account signal count in the explicit-reply path (when source-
client gets immediately unblocked by 'signal_session_component::submit').
This patch prevents the delivery of superfluous signals with num == 0.
- Let hybrid Linux/Genode programs use POSIX threads for the
implementation of the Thread API.
- Prevent linkage of cxx library to hybrid Linux/Genode programs because
the cxx functionality is covered by glibc.
