The vendor 5.10 kernel is built without CONFIG_BRIDGE, and that absence has
shaped the firmware: the panel's access point has to be its own subnet with its
own DHCP pool instead of joining the LAN, and warden_router_set_zone() treats a
second LAN port as impossible. Both carry a code comment saying "this kernel has
no bridge".
Turning it on is what lets a Client-mode panel run an access point the way an
ordinary ceiling AP does -- wlan0 and the wired uplink in one broadcast domain,
addresses handed out by whatever router is already upstream.
Verified on the bench panel: before, `ip link add type bridge` returned
"Operation not supported"; on this kernel the bridge is created and eth0
enslaves into it (/sys/class/net/br0/brif/eth0). WireGuard, iptables and VLAN
still work.
Also fixes a warden-modbus path in architecture.md left stale by the apps/ move.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01T2D2KtdgwbhbF6Mo64eUrn
A new quality job runs the linter battery (clippy, cppcheck, shellcheck,
ruff, lizard, jscpd, cargo-audit per crate, scc for the LOC denominator)
and feeds tools/quality/score.py: findings convert to SQALE remediation
minutes, debt ratio grades A-F on SonarQube's published grid, and a
separate worst-of security axis can only drag the overall grade down.
The job uploads the full quality.json breakdown and fails when the
security grade is worse than C.
The badges job now renders all four SVGs in-runner with anybadge
(shields hex palette); the previous img.shields.io curls were the one
external-service dependency left in the pipeline. quality.svg is seeded
at the current locally-computed grade (A, debt ratio 0.42%).
Also fixes the two ruff findings the battery surfaced in flowgen.py.
Replace every em dash with real punctuation (rewrites, not hyphen swaps)
in docs, code comments, scripts, configs, and the port records; convert
en dashes, curly quotes, ellipsis glyphs, arrows, and section signs to
ASCII; drop machine-writing tell phrases from living docs. ADR titles
now use a colon. The M2 bring-up DTS model string carried an em dash
into the patch series and its record echoes; fixed at both, and the full
series re-verified to apply cleanly onto pristine 6.18.46. One comment
in freshness.h deliberately names the em dash glyph the UI renders as
the unknown mark; that is data, kept as prose naming it.
Verified: cargo tests (sim, config-lint, rs485-bridge), shellcheck,
both driver MC/DC harnesses, patches-apply.
Second conciseness pass per review feedback: bullets and tables over
prose (vendor-SDK failings, repo layout, sim models, kernel-port
rationale, QEMU scenarios), duplicated content cut (provenance pointer,
scenario prose the qemu README already carries). Also fixes two stale
claims in architecture.md: the flared seam unification and real-image
boot both landed (flare-edge #110, PR #8) but were still marked pending.
The last product-first artifact after ADR-0008 was the repo name itself.
Current and forward-looking references updated; period-bound history in
the ADRs keeps the old name, with the rename recorded in ADR-0008.
Crate names, WARDEN_* env vars, and binaries are unchanged.
The repo's documentation framed it as a support repo for one product
(WardenOS). Since going public the real audience is anyone with a Luckfox
Pico 86 Panel: a maintained 6.18 kernel, an off-device development loop,
and a device simulator that exist nowhere else for this board. Reframe the
README and top-level docs board-first, with WardenOS documented as the
downstream consumer it is (ADR-0008).
Also an editorial pass over the whole doc set:
- every H1/H2 is now a short title, not a sentence (ADRs, qemu/, patches/,
drivers/, architecture, NPU feasibility, config-lint, payload); workflow
flowchart titles fixed at the source in tools/flowgen.py and regenerated
with fresh bench numbers
- README Quick Start commands verified against the scripts; requirements
corrected (curl, bare python, gcc >= 14) and the MC/DC gate added as a
step (run green locally on gcc 14.2)
- dropped the 'needs python (not python3)' vendor dig: build-kernel.sh
inherited the same requirement (filed #10 to remove it)
- glossed MC/DC and HPMCU on first use; marked the tests/uboot-ab
reference as flare-edge; deduplicated the three-simulator list into the
root README table
- ci-cd.md phrasing made time-invariant (true before and after the
visibility flip; the prior wording asserted a state not yet real).
- ui-shot: liveness check before the tap QMP call too — the commit-message
claim of "before every QMP call" is now actually true.
- busybox fetcher checks its pin before downloading, mirroring the
kernel-tarball fetcher's ordering.
- Fragment disable-arm: absence of a deps-gated symbol is a valid disable
outcome; only "still set" is fatal (the iteration-2 symmetrization
overcorrected). Negative-tested both directions under set -e.
Iteration 3 produced four findings, none blocking, all applied — the
recursive review is converged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K
- build-kernel.sh fragment assertion: survives a missing trailing newline
(the read footgun, reproduced) and treats an absent symbol on a disable
line as FATAL, symmetric with the enable arm.
- fetch-kernel-tarball.sh checks the pin before downloading; both fetchers
add --retry-connrefused.
- mkimage rejects '.'/'..' state keys.
- ui-shot: VM liveness checked before every QMP call, console.log preserved
as evidence on every failure path, repaint deadline widened to 90s with
the contended-runner rationale documented.
- rs485-bridge: overflow discards back off one gap and rate-limit their log
line, mirroring the accept-loop fix; clippy nit fixed.
- .gitignore ignores *.elf/*.map so the untracked artifacts cannot silently
return; CI shellcheck glob now covers build/ and the rootfs boot scripts
(directives added for the deliberate in-guest source paths).
- Docs: NPU parity row matches its sibling verification docs; line-pinned
audit cross-references unpinned; CROSS_COMPILE documented in the build
header; payload README lists warden-ui; ci-cd tense settled.
Verified: guards negative-tested (bad state keys, no-newline fragment);
boot smoke, portal scenario, ui-shot all PASS; 53 tests green; shellcheck
clean across the widened glob; clippy zero.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K
CI/pipeline:
- KERNEL_TARBALL passed as a YAML env literal '~' was never tilde-expanded
and would have failed every hosted kernel-build dispatch; the path is now
exported from the shell. Verified reproducible before the fix.
- Every job gets timeout-minutes; boot smoke uses timeout -k so a wedged
qemu is SIGKILLed instead of holding the job.
- Tarball fetch + fail-closed sha256 verification deduplicated into
build/fetch-kernel-tarball.sh (with curl retries), used by build-kernel.sh
and both CI jobs. busybox fetch gains retries too.
- ccache layer for kernel-build (cache keyed on defconfig+patches) recovers
the incremental-compile speed the ephemeral-runner move cost.
- build-kernel.sh now asserts every fragment option survived olddefconfig —
merge_config -m pastes text and Kconfig silently drops unmet symbols.
rs485-bridge:
- pending-buffer cap (2x max RTU ADU) instead of unbounded growth;
explicit accept-loop error handling with backoff instead of .flatten();
per-arm inline bounds instead of the string-keyed lookup whose default
would have mis-bounded a future get-input; control-socket cleanup errors
surfaced; flag-shaped values rejected in arg parsing; doc example uses a
private mktemp dir. Test timing margins widened for contended runners
(gap 25->120ms, 60x margin on the split-frame test).
VM harness:
- stage-1/stage-2 boot scripts share one validated slot parser and one
by-name populator (qemu/rootfs/etc/warden-lib.sh) — the duplicated
parser had already diverged on validation; userdata/oem mount failures
now fail fast with a greppable sentinel; udhcpc fallback keys off the
interface actually having an address; switch_root applet guarded.
- boot-smoke delegates the qemu invocation to run.sh (machine shape lives
in ONE place); run.sh port 0 disables a hostfwd.
- mkimage: unknown partition names fail at build time; DISK_END is a max,
not last-entry; --state keys validated as filenames.
- portal-scenario: mock readiness is asserted (no silent fall-through),
hostfwd port collisions retried, mount-failure sentinel fails fast.
- ui-shot: fixed sleeps replaced with bounded screendump polling; the
repaint assertion is real and documented as such. qmp.py loses its
module-global and gains argv validation.
Docs/scrub: bench-host paths and the site AP name removed from six more
port docs and two evidence tables; path-bearing build artifacts (.elf,
.map) untracked (the 154-byte firmware .bin is path-free and stays);
ADR-0003 marked visibility-superseded by ADR-0007; stale section
cross-reference fixed; flare-edge noted as private for outside readers;
stale root-level review report removed per the new workspace rule.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K
Preparing the repo to go public (ADR-0007):
- CI: kernel-build moves from the self-hosted runner to ubuntu-latest
(installs its own cross toolchain + qemu, caches the pristine tarball).
On a public repo a registered self-hosted runner is reachable from
approved fork-PR workflows — i.e. arbitrary code on private
infrastructure — and the build never actually needed the SDK host.
ADR-0004 marked superseded-in-part; docs/ci-cd.md rewritten (site
specifics now live only in the private deployment log).
- Licensing: LICENSE gains the GPL-2.0 carve-out for patches/ and the
kernel source excerpts (Linux derivatives; per-driver provenance was
already tracked in PROVENANCE.md); patches/README.md states it too.
- Scrubbed from the tip: bench-unit dev credentials and its gadget IP
(m2-boot notes), the site AP SSID+BSSID and a neighboring AP's BSSID
and the device WLAN MAC (wifi bring-up evidence — BSSIDs are
geolocatable), the runner mesh IP. NOTE: these remain in git history;
decision on a pre-publication history rewrite is separate.
- Emoji cleanup across 21 tracked files (kernel port docs, review report,
enforce-mcdc.sh) per repo text conventions: status marks became
[x]/[wip]/[ ]/OK plain text.
- "[maintainer]-gated" process phrasing normalized to "maintainer-gated"
(attributions in dated evidence docs kept).
Verified: zero emojis tracked; scrub grep clean; patches carry no internal
references; ci.yml parses; shellcheck unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K
Installed 2026-08-30 on bfe-mpc-0640 (QEMU 10.0.11; cpio/curl already
present); recorded in flare-deployment deploy-log. End-to-end CI check of
the smoke step waits on the account-wide Actions billing stall.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K
Phase 4+5 of the device sim:
- Display + touch verified end-to-end: virtio-gpu at 720x720 (fbdev
emulation) renders the real WardenOS dashboard from the static LVGL
fbdev+evdev UI build (flare-edge qemu-vm-support tools/build-ui-vm.sh);
QMP input-send-event taps the Metrics tab and qemu/tests/ui-shot.sh
asserts the repaint from screendumps. Two load-bearing QEMU flags found
and documented: -global virtio-mmio.force-legacy=false (gpu/input are
VERSION_1-only) and the 200ms press hold (an instantaneous press+release
lands inside one LVGL indev poll and never clicks).
- qemu/tests/qmp.py: minimal QMP client (screendump, tap, quit).
- stage-2 init starts warden-ui when present and fb0 exists.
- docs/decisions/0006-qemu-device-sim.md: virt-not-custom-board, the
enters-at-kernel boundary, fragment policy, naming, consequences.
- docs/architecture.md: new section 7 (device emulation), order-of-work
item 7; modbus cross-reference to the bridge.
- qemu/README.md: emulated-vs-not table, scenarios, gotchas, host/runner
requirements. docs/ci-cd.md: runner needs one-time qemu-system-arm
install (fail-closed smoke until then, [maintainer]-gated). Repo README updated.
Final sweep on this commit: shellcheck clean, bridge 7/7 tests, boot smoke
PASS, portal scenario PASS (check-in + fw pull + signed .wfw download),
ui-shot PASS (touch navigates to Metrics) — all under the final flags.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K
Make the self-hosted kernel-build runnable with zero manual toolchain/python setup
on the runner host (docs/ci-cd.md steps 3-4 move into the workflow):
- build/build-kernel.sh: honor a caller-provided CROSS_COMPILE (default stays the
Luckfox uclibc prefix). The kernel is freestanding, so a generic arm cross
compiler links it.
- kernel-build job: set CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- (Debian
gcc-arm-linux-gnueabihf, already on 0640) instead of depending on the ephemeral
SDK checkout path; symlink python->python3 into $RUNNER_TEMP/bin on $GITHUB_PATH
for the bare-`python` SDK quirk.
- docs/ci-cd.md: only steps 1-2 (systemd service + cgroup cap) still need 0640 sudo.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
Point the badges job's branch guard at refs/heads/main and update the README /
ci-cd docs to name main as the canonical branch, ahead of establishing main from
bringup as the SDK's first main commit.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
Second recursive pass: two adversarial re-reviewers verified the iteration-1 fixes.
Fuzz/empirical checks cleared the freshness min-budget rewrite (200k random trials),
the config-lint reg-token scanner, its UTF-8 boundary safety, and the build-kernel.sh
trap (5 exit scenarios) — no defects. Three items corrected here:
- config-lint is_known_safe_loader: match the WHOLE normalized loader name, not an
unanchored substring. The iteration-1 allowlist swap kept `contains()`, so a future
coprocessor whose name merely contained a boot word ("AudioLoader" ⊃ "loader",
"SplRtos" ⊃ "spl", "Bl32" ≠ "bl31") would have been waved through — reopening the
0x40000-brick false-negative the fail-closed change exists to prevent. Regression
test added with those exact adversarial names.
- docs/architecture.md §3: the `cru` bullet no longer claims flared's devmem `Bus`
seam is shipped — it lands when flare-edge consumes warden-sdk ([maintainer]-gated), which
is what §7 item 3 already said. Resolves an in-document contradiction.
- drivers/README.md: modbus "11 pty scenarios" -> "8 pty scenarios + 3 wire/daemon
checks (11 total)", matching flare-edge tools/modbus-sim's actual SCENARIOS list.
- docs/decisions/0002-mcdc-tiering.md: Consequences now describe the shared
drivers/enforce-mcdc.sh + drivers/<name>/test/ layout actually built (not the
per-driver dirs the ADR first anticipated); Rust MC/DC tooling reality noted.
config-lint: 9 tests pass; clippy clean under -D warnings; gitleaks clean. C drivers
untouched (still relays 40/40, freshness 66/66 MC/DC).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
First recursive code-review-harness pass over the authored SDK code (sim/,
config-lint, flowgen, drivers/{relays,freshness}, build/, ci.yml). Four parallel
dimension reviewers; all findings at every severity corrected per workspace rule.
Correctness / reliability:
- freshness.c min_budget_ms: use a `seen` flag, not `best==0`, as the empty
sentinel — a zero-tolerance (max_stale_ms==0) binding was silently widened to a
looser neighbour's budget. Regression test added; still 66/66 MC/DC.
- config-lint parse_reserved_ranges: match `reg` as a whole property token (ident
boundary before, `=` after) so `reg-names` / a `region-*` label no longer
mis-parses into a bogus reserved range.
- config-lint loader check: fail closed — flag any loader with a LOAD_ADDR that is
not a known-safe boot component, instead of only known MCU names, so a future
coprocessor ("Rtos"/"Bl32") can't slip past the 0x40000-brick gate.
- build-kernel.sh: sha256 verification is now mandatory (refuse to build if the pin
is missing) and the mktemp scratch tree is removed on exit (trap), while a
caller-provided WORK is left intact for CI artifact upload.
Test quality:
- freshness: added the age==max_stale boundary case and a clock-wraparound
(now < last_ok) fail-safe-to-UNKNOWN test.
- relays: unsetenv(WARDEN_GPIO_ROOT) at main() so the NULL-env arm is hermetic.
Security / CI:
- ci.yml: top-level `permissions: contents: read` (badges overrides to write);
pin taiki-e/install-action to commit SHA (v2.86.7).
Maintainability / docs:
- drivers/enforce-mcdc.sh: one shared, name-derived gate replaces the two
copy-pasted per-driver scripts; Makefiles call ../../enforce-mcdc.sh.
- docs/architecture.md: §3/§4/§6/§7 rewritten to match reality — NPU/RGA models,
config-lint, and the relays+freshness MC/DC harnesses are done; kernel §6 now
reflects the 5.10->6.18.46 forward-port (ADR-0001), not the superseded plan44/6.6.
- README: status blurb + layout table corrected (kernel/, .github/; stale ci/ and
patches/ descriptions fixed). hpmcu "8 tests" -> 7 in docs.
- freshness.{c,h}: ADR reference points at flare-edge ADR-0004 (warden-sdk's
ADR-0004 is the CI runner — number collision).
- normalize rustfmt drift across sim/ + config-lint.
All green: sim 37 tests, config-lint 8 tests, both drivers 100% MC/DC (relays
40/40, freshness 66/66), clippy clean under -D warnings, gitleaks clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
- tools/flowgen.py: generates docs/workflows/<name>.md — one outcome-first mermaid
flowchart per workflow the SDK tests (hpmcu watchdog, modbus read, cru ladder,
rga offload, relay drive, freshness contract), each stamped with its benchmark
ns/op or 100% MC/DC result. Deterministic; reads the cargo-bench trend json.
- drivers/README.md: honest Tier-1 (relays + freshness, 100% MC/DC here now) vs
Tier-2 (modbus/rga — serious testing + fault-injection + benchmarks via sim
models; driver sources migrate in with the flare-edge unification) per ADR-0002/0005.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
Registered a 3rd repo-scoped runner on bfe-mpc-0640 (label warden-sdk,
bfe-mpc-0640-warden-sdk) per ADR-0004. It is offline pending the sudo-gated steps
(service install + CPUQuota/MemoryMax cgroup cap + toolchain/python provisioning),
documented in docs/ci-cd.md as a [maintainer] handoff. kernel-build stays dispatch-gated
and passes JOBS=4 as a belt-and-braces resource bound.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
Investigated whether the RV1106 NPU (RKNPU) could do 3D rendering or other
graphical work as we port its driver to 6.18. Verdict: no. Read the vendored
rknpu driver directly — it executes a pre-compiled regcmd list from Rockchip's
closed RKNN compiler; no register ISA, no arbitrary-kernel submit path. Only the
vertex-transform stage (GEMM) maps at all, and rasterization/depth/texture/
shading/framebuffer have no mapping to a conv/pool op set — absent, not slow. For
every CNN-shaped graphical candidate the SoC already has a better fit (RGA 2D,
idle RKIVE classic-CV), and there's no camera. Recommend porting rknpu.ko only
for future non-visual inference, never for graphics.
Caveat flagged in the doc: the no-rasterizer claim is from the RKNN op taxonomy +
architecture, not register-level ground truth (TRM Part 2 is unpublished).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
The device counterpart to warden-modbus's master/scanner: request-frame in,
response-frame out, in host memory. CRC16 is byte-identical to the master
(poly 0xA001, low-first; known vector 01 03 00 00 00 01 -> 84 0A verified).
Implements the data plane — read/write holding & input registers, coils,
discrete inputs (FC 0x01-0x06, 0x0F, 0x10) + Report Slave ID (0x11) — with
exception replies (illegal function/address/value) and the two real-world
faults the master must survive: a device that silently ignores a request
(drop_next) and one that NAKs everything (force_exception). This is what the
modbus-master MC/DC harness drives against; MEI (0x2B/0x0E) is a follow-up.
11 tests, sim crate 25/25 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
The c8a3 brick was a memory-map fault no behavioural sim can catch: a
boot-loaded coprocessor firmware dropped at 0x40000, which is a reserved-memory
carve-out on Thunder-Boot boards but plain kernel RAM on ours. config-lint is
the static gate for it — parse the rkbin loader .ini for every LOADERn=Hpmcu
LOAD_ADDR, parse the target devicetree for reserved-memory ranges, fail if any
MCU load lands outside a reservation.
Tests encode the brick as a regression against the REAL Thunder-Boot .ini
(Hpmcu@0x40000): fails with no rtos@40000 node, passes once reserved; our
board's non-TB loader (no boot-loaded MCU) always passes. 6/6 green; CLI
verified against the on-disk rkbin .ini files.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
Models the RV1106 reset ladder + boot-mode register on the MemBus seam, so
flared's devmem::hard_reset ladder and the boot-mode -> MaskRom recovery
maneuver are testable entirely on the host. Bakes in the two hardware facts
that cost real bench time as regression tests:
- the CRU global-reset register is 0xff3b0c08/0xfdb9; the magic at the wrong
offset 0xff3a0614 (from other Rockchip SoCs) is a SILENT NO-OP here;
- the boot-mode register 0xff020200 survives a warm reset (the mechanism that
makes "set MaskRom, then reset" drop the SoC into BootROM download), and a
power-on reset clears it.
6 tests (both rungs, pet, the wrong-offset no-op, MaskRom-survives-warm-reset,
POR-clears-request); the sim crate is 14/14 green.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
Grounded in a full survey of the flare-edge firmware: catalogs every hardware
seam (register/MemBus, resource-path env-override, RGA compile-time), the tiered
MC/DC target (our code real MC/DC via the uboot-ab pattern; blobs fault-injection),
the target-config-lint class that the sim CANNOT cover (the 0x40000 brick), and
the ordered plan. Notes the flared<-warden-sim Cargo dep needs a repo remote
([maintainer] go-ahead).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
