genode/repos/base-foc/doc/foc.txt
Norman Feske c450ddcb3d Disambiguate kernel-specific file names
This patch removes possible ambiguities with respect to the naming of
kernel-dependent binaries and libraries. It also removes the use of
kernel-specific global side effects from the build system. The reach of
kernel-specific peculiarities has thereby become limited to the actual
users of the respective 'syscall-<kernel>' libraries.

Kernel-specific build artifacts are no longer generated at magic places
within the build directory (like okl4's includes, or the L4 build
directories of L4/Fiasco and Fiasco.OC, or the build directories of
various kernels). Instead, such artifacts have been largely moved to the
libcache. E.g., the former '<build-dir>/l4/' build directory for the L4
build system resides at '<build-dir>/var/libcache/syscall-foc/build/'.
This way, the location is unique to the kernel. Note that various tools
are still generated somewhat arbitrarily under '<build-dir>/tool/' as
there is no proper formalism for building host tools yet.

As the result of this work, it has become possible to use a joint Genode
build directory that is usable with all kernels of a given hardware
platform. E.g., on x86_32, one can now seamlessly switch between linux,
nova, sel4, okl4, fiasco, foc, and pistachio without rebuilding any
components except for core, the kernel, the dynamic linker, and the timer
driver. At the current stage, such a build directory must still be
created manually. A change of the 'create_builddir' tool will follow to
make this feature easily available.

This patch also simplifies various 'run/boot_dir' plugins by removing
the option for an externally hosted kernel. This option remained unused
for many years now.

Issue #2190
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Genode on the Fiasco.OC microkernel
===================================
Stefan Kalkowski
Fiasco.OC is a microkernel developed by the OS group of the TU-Dresden. It's
an object-oriented capability-based system for x86, ARM and PowerPC platforms.
This document provides brief instructions about downloading, building and
booting the Fiasco.OC version of Genode.
Prerequisites
#############
You need certain tools to use the Fiasco.OC build system. On Debian/Ubuntu
systems you have to install the following packages:
! apt-get install make gawk pkg-config subversion patch
Moreover, you need to download and install the tool-chain used by Genode. Have
a look at this page:
:[http://genode.org/download/tool-chain]:
Genode tool-chain
If you want to use the so called run-scripts in Genode, a mechanism that
automates building, integration and testing of components, you have to install
the following, additional package:
! apt-get install expect
Building the Fiasco.OC version of Genode
########################################
The current version of Genode is available at the public subversion repository:
:http://genode.org/download/subversion-repository:
Information about accessing the Genode public subversion repository
After you've fetched the Genode source tree from the subversion repository, or
downloaded the latest release tar archive, you need the Fiasco.OC source code,
its kernel-bindings, additional bootstrap tools etc. To simplify that step,
you can use the 'prepare_port' tool:
! ./tool/ports/prepare_port foc
This will install all necessary third-party source code in the 'contrib' folder.
For the vesa driver on x86 the x86emu library is required and can be downloaded
and prepared by invoking the following command:
! ./tool/ports/prepare_port x86emu
Now, go to a directory where you want the Genode/Fiasco.OC build directory to
remain. Use the helper script in the 'tool' directory of the Genode
source tree to create the initial build environment. You need to state the
build directory you want to create, and the hardware architecture to run
Fiasco.OC/Genode on. Choose 'foc_x86_32', 'foc_x86_64', or 'foc_pbxa9'
depending on whether you want to build for the 32-bit or 64-bit X86
architecture, or for ARMs Cortex-A9.
! <genode-dir>/tool/create_builddir foc_x86_32 \
! BUILD_DIR=<build-dir>
Now, go to the newly created build directory and type make:
! cd <build-dir>
! make
This will build the Fiasco.OC kernel, its bootstrap code, and every Genode component,
that runs on top of Fiasco.OC.
If you just want to give Genode/Fiasco.OC a try, you can call e.g.: the demo run-script
instead of building everything:
! cd <build-dir>
! make run/demo
Running L4Linux on top of Genode
################################
To get the L4Linux running on top of Genode, you have to change prepare its
sources:
! ./tool/ports/prepare_port l4linux
This will fetch the currently supported version from the L4Linux subversion
repository, and apply a patch to it, that is needed to execute it on top of
Genode.
Before compiling L4Linux for Genode/Fiasco.OC you have to integrate the 'ports-foc'
repository into your build environment. Therefore edit the 'etc/build.conf' file
in your build directory, and uncomment the following line:
! REPOSITORIES += $(GENODE_DIR)/repos/ports-foc
After that you can build and run L4Linux by issuing:
! make run/l4linux
in your build directory. This run-script boots a single L4Linux instance into
a minimal console environment. After booting completes, the run-scripts tries
to download the Genode project webpage via the 'wget' tool within the L4Linux
environment. If all wents fine the run-script completes successfully.
Further Information
###################
:[http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco]:
Official website for the Fiasco.OC microkernel.