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@@ -81,9 +81,11 @@ patches * disabled IPv6 * fixed some missing IPv6 conditionals * added conditional for FamilyServerInterpreted ("si:") -- meh - * disabled external libraries for gif, png, jpeg, imagemagick - * fixed dependency generator +- image viewer + - meh + * disabled external libraries for gif, png, jpeg, imagemagick + * fixed dependency generator + - feh as alternative? - slock * fixed for missing setgroups in musl * disabled XRandr extension @@ -229,6 +231,7 @@ The starting point of the Linux kernel configuration is 'make tinyconfig'. - for 32-bit time parameter as in pselect (this of course made the whole thing non-2038-safe) "vis: mainloop function not implemented", needs 'pselect' + "pselect, function not implemented SYS_pselect6_time64" - CONFIG_MSDOS_PARTITION - for fdisk @@ -487,6 +490,8 @@ EOF timing), this might be because we use musl? Xfbdev builds, vesafb only works when started at boot time (not as module) which is annoying. +- minimize fonts +- Xfbdev :0 -fp /share/X11/fonts - "Could not init font path element ../share/X11/fonts/, removing from list" https://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/libXfont/fontlib.html => the pathes must be absolute and no errors in any file whatsover! @@ -533,7 +538,8 @@ Segmentation fault - wordgrinder: segfaults in luapeg on first script, probably a static linking issue or a tcc issue? - rxvt: 2.7.10 doesn't link statically and has a rxvt-2.7.10 additionally to - rxvt. we use rxvt-2.6.4, why exactly? + rxvt. + TODO: we use rxvt-2.6.4, why exactly? - real hardware (Unisys): softirq kernel panic Starting network via DHCP.. ne ne.0 (unnamed net_device) (uninitialized): NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x300: @@ -578,6 +584,15 @@ Call Trace: results in warnings when issuing 'man xxx' - too big 6x13-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz: 4k on host, 64k in root.img. Most likely we package too many charset variants +- "Linux as a Boot Loader - Peter Chubb", kernel assumes to have space after + it for decompression in address space and overwrites the ramdisk, explains + our fiddling with loading addresses and random crashes till they no longer + overlap sessions. +- suckless: + - sup: not really suckless, sha256 summing and listing, daemonizing should be + separate binaries in Unix sense + - sandy: not really stable and maintained, it seems + - static: minial cgit version with static pages tools ----- @@ -637,7 +652,18 @@ to abase). Their definition of micro is quite different from mine in terms of size and library dependencies) I also doubt it works with tcc, needs python3 on the host to build - + +Some todos to sort out +---------------------- + +- zlib + - use libz or zlib-ng +- st/rxvt + - https://opensource.com/article/19/10/why-use-rxvt-terminal +- tmux/screen +- joe/vis +- vesa/frambuffer + other approaches ---------------- @@ -693,6 +719,7 @@ user land. oasis ----- +by Michael Forney, author of cproc statically linked, the Lua build thing is weird. He also rewrote ninja as samurai in C (which is nice). Also with QBE and cproc the user land can be built with a small C @@ -772,11 +799,14 @@ links - https://github.com/landley/aboriginal - https://github.com/landley/mkroot - https://landley.net/aboriginal/documentation.html + - http://landley.net/aboriginal/history.html - Morpheus - https://git.2f30.org/morpheus/ - Oasis - https://git.sr.ht/~mcf/oasis + - https://github.com/oasislinux/oasis - Stali + - https://sta.li - https://pub.nethence.com/xen/guest-stali - Graylinux - https://github.com/marmolak/gray386linux @@ -786,7 +816,8 @@ links - http://sabo.xyz/ - https://sabotage-linux.neocities.org/ - https://sabotage-linux.neocities.org/blog/11/ - - others: + - https://github.com/scanlime/avc-edge-linux (disappeared) + - others minimal linux: - https://www.glaucuslinux.org/ - https://github.com/ZilchOS/bootstrap-from-tcc: this is more for having a minimal tcc-based binary core for bootstrapping @@ -812,10 +843,27 @@ links - https://github.com/firasuke/mussel (Firas Khalil Khana) - https://github.com/pikhq/bootstrap-linux - https://www.glendix.org/: Plan9-like distro - - Minimal Linux Live - - https://github.com/ivandavidov/minimal + - https://github.com/ivandavidov/minimal: Minimal Linux Live + - https://github.com/yeokm1/gentoo-on-486 + - https://distr1.org/: Michael Stapelberg, alternative package management for Linux + - https://kisslinux.org/ + - https://git.sdf.org/midfavila/musl-tcc + - other minimal floppy system + - https://github.com/gotoco/PE_Bootloader_x86 + - https://github.com/fysnet/FYSOS/ (smallc, boot loader in C for unreal mode) + - https://github.com/alexfru/BootProg + - http://dc0d32.blogspot.com/2010/06/real-mode-in-c-with-gcc-writing.html + - https://wiki.osdev.org/Disk_access_using_the_BIOS_(INT_13h) + - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INT_13H#INT_13h_AH=08h:_Read_Drive_Parameters + - https://stanislavs.org/helppc/dbt.html + - http://vitaly_filatov.tripod.com/ng/asm/asm_024.9.html + - https://web.archive.org/web/20160619063203/http://www.ctyme.com/intr/rb-0621.htm + - https://students.mimuw.edu.pl/SO/Linux/Kod/arch/i386/boot/bootsect.S.html + - other minimal toolchains + - https://github.com/pts/pts-tcc - C Compilers - https://repo.or.cz/w/tinycc.git + - https://blog.stephencleary.com/2010/10/implementing-gccs-builtin-functions.html: on __builtin_clz - C Libraries - https://www.fefe.de/dietlibc (https://www.monperrus.net/martin/compiling-tcc-with-dietlibc: sadly @@ -834,12 +882,15 @@ links - https://github.com/martanne/vis - https://joe-editor.sourceforge.io/ - https://ex-vi.sourceforge.net/ + - https://git.sdf.org/midfavila/mse - Kernel - Tinification - https://weeraman.com/building-a-tiny-linux-kernel-8c07579ae79d - https://tiny.wiki.kernel.org/ - http://events17.linuxfoundation.org/sites/events/files/slides/tiny.pdf - https://z49x2vmq.github.io/2020/12/24/linux-tiny-qemu/ + - http://elinux.org/Kernel_Size_Reduction_Work + - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27941775/what-is-the-minimum-amount-of-ram-required-to-run-linux-kernel-on-an-embedded-de - Boot process - ramdisks - https://linuxlink.timesys.com/docs/startup_overview @@ -847,6 +898,7 @@ links - https://firasuke.github.io/DOTSLASHLINUX/post/booting-the-linux-kernel-without-an-initrd-initramfs/ - https://docs.kernel.org/admin-guide/initrd.html - https://landley.net/writing/rootfs-programming.html + - https://github.com/chris-se/tiny-initramfs - device management - https://git.suckless.org/smdev - init systems @@ -855,6 +907,8 @@ links - https://github.com/hut/minirc - https://omaera.org/wlog/tech/runit_init - https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1000292-start-0.html + - https://busybox.busybox.narkive.com/PBeyeZOM/custom-initrd-using + - https://github.com/shiftypenguin/uinit - service/daemon management - http://r-36.net/scm/svc/log.html - minimal userland @@ -879,6 +933,7 @@ links - https://github.com/leahneukirchen/obase - https://beastiebox.sourceforge.net/ - https://www.fefe.de/embutils/ + - https://heirloom.sourceforge.net/ - gopher://bitreich.org - https://git.2f30.org/hbase/log.html: Heirlom - https://www.glendix.org/: we could also go into the direction of using @@ -886,8 +941,13 @@ links - git://git.9front.org/plan9front/plan9front - git://git.suckless.org/9base - https://github.com/ecki/net-tools.git + - https://www.reddit.com/r/suckless/comments/n14xnq/can_sbase_replace_busybox/ + - https://exactcode.com/opensource/minised/ (Eroc S. Raymond, maintained by Rene Rebe) + - https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4327942/non-buffering-stdin-reading - minimalism - https://wiki.installgentoo.com/wiki/Software_minimalism + - https://suckless.org/philosophy + - https://github.com/173duprot/harm-less - Link collections of interesting software - https://suckless.org/rocks/ - https://suckless.org/other_projects/ @@ -909,8 +969,12 @@ links - https://virtuallyfun.com/2020/07/31/using-qemu-in-2020/ - nbd - https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-block/patch_20190612163144.18486-2/roman.stratiienko@globallogic.com/ + - http://patraulea.com/nbd-http/ + - https://github.com/NetworkBlockDevice/nbd/ + - https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-block/patch/20190612163144.18486-2-roman.stratiienko@globallogic.com/ - debugging - https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.15/dev-tools/kgdb.html + - https://ja.nsommer.dk/articles/linux-and-tiny-c-compiler-in-the-browser-part-one.html - X - tiny X - https://github.com/idunham/tinyxserver and @@ -921,6 +985,12 @@ links - alternatives: - https://github.com/michaelforney/velox, https://github.com/michaelforney/swc: but this is wayland + - http://www.microwindows.org/ + - KDrive (Tiny X, TinyX): Keith Packard + - https://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/kdrive.html + - https://github.com/Earnestly/sx: alternative xinit/startx + - http://www.microwindows.org/ + - http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=16299.0: fork of tinyx for tinycorelinux - X terminal - xterm: bloat - st, requires Xft, requiring fontconfig, freetype2, etc. can eventually @@ -941,6 +1011,63 @@ links this is all a little bit too much - ion1: more suckless, maybe patchable to do what we want https://github.com/apenwarr/ion1 +- debugging + - automatic serial without getty + - https://github.com/Angstrom-distribution/meta-linaro/blob/master/recipes-core/auto-serial-console/auto-serial-console/auto-getty +- suspend/hibernate + - https://docs.kernel.org/power/s2ram.html +- philosophical stuff + - 1983 Rob Pike made a presentation titled ‘UNIX Style, or cat -v Considered Harmful’ + - http://harmful.cat-v.org/cat-v/ +- hardware-specific stuff + - Unisys CWD-4002 + - http://www.dosdays.co.uk/topics/Manufacturers/cirrus_logic.php: graphic chip +- graphic programming + - https://www.svgalib.org/ + - https://benpfaff.org/projects.html: BOGL graphics library for framebuffers + +performance +----------- + +Building i486tcc-linux + +5 minutes userland including cross-toolchain +15 minutes kernel +1 minute ramdisk/floppy creation + +framebuffer +----------- + +insmod /lib/modules/drivers/video/fbdev/core/cfbcopyarea.ko +insmod /lib/modules/drivers/video/fbdev/core/cfbfillrect.ko +insmod /lib/modules/drivers/video/fbdev/core/cfbimgblt.ko +insmod /lib/modules/arch/x86/video/fbdev.ko +insmod /lib/modules/lib/fonts/font.ko +insmod /lib/modules/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb.ko +insmod /lib/modules/drivers/video/fbdev/cirrusfb.ko + +insmod /lib/modules/drivers/video/vgastate.ko +insmod /lib/modules/lib/fonts/font.ko +insmod /lib/modules/drivers/video/fbdev/vga16fb.ko + +mknod /dev/fb0 c 29 0 +cat /sys/class/graphics/fb0/name + +Unsorted links +-------------- + +- framebuffer + - https://higfxback.github.io/ + - https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis + - https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=5400 + - https://directfb2.github.io/ + - https://github.com/directfb2/DirectFB2 + - https://github.com/8l/fbui + - https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/xenial/man1/fbi.1.html + - https://kevinboone.me/linuxfbc.html?i=1 + - https://benpfaff.org/projects.html: vga16fb +- fonts + - https://github.com/ntwk/vga-font Real hardware ------------- @@ -953,3 +1080,4 @@ insmod 8390p.ko insmod ne.ko io=0x300 irq=10 ifconfig eth0 up sdhcp + |