Kernel-side captures for the flare-edge warden-bootimprovements work,
photon-verified on warden-c8a3:
- rockchip_drm_vop.c vop_initial(): when U-Boot left the VOP scanning the
boot logo (window enabled, not in standby), skip the AHB/dclk resets and
window disables, and hold clocks + a runtime-PM reference until the first
real vop_enable() drops them. The logo now survives the DRM bind; the
only remaining blank is ~1.3s at the splash's own first modeset.
KNOWN LOOSE END: a deferred-probe rebind runs the takeover twice and the
first bind's held references are never dropped (a clk/PM leak that keeps
the VOP domain on -- harmless for an always-on HMI, should be released in
unbind eventually).
- rv1106-warden.dts: /reserved-memory/drm-logo@0 placeholder that U-Boot's
fdt fixup stamps with the logo framebuffer (observed: addr=0xdf00000
size=0x71000, kernel reserves it 'map non-reusable'); chosen bootargs
drop earlyprintk (with earlycon it doubled every console line at 115200).
- Kernel config switched KERNEL_XZ -> KERNEL_GZIP: post-'Starting kernel'
silence 4.2s -> 0.8s; the zImage grows past the old 11.95MB cap, which
flare-edge sdk-patches 0007 removes (fdt_addr_r 12M -> 128M).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014L3eBF6wBXC55uJoZuUfS6
Tried extcon = <&u2phy> for 5.10 parity (2026-09-01) and reverted the same
day: bench/router panels self-source VBUS on the OTG port, so bvalid is
always high and extcon locks the role to peripheral, overriding debugfs mode
writes and orphaning a plugged USB NIC. Role stays manual (dwc3 debugfs mode,
router=host / client=gadget), with the switch sequence living in flare-edge
S26usbhost. See the usb2phy power-on issue for the remaining probe-time gap.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014L3eBF6wBXC55uJoZuUfS6
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.
The style pass rewrote an em dash as a colon inside an unquoted name:
scalar, which YAML reads as a nested mapping. Comma instead; file
re-validated with a YAML parse.
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.
Drop the Why / What Works sections and the product-origin story; the
text before Quick Start is now one comparison table of the upgrades over
the vendor SDK. Coverage methodology stays in the internal docs as the
reliability standard rather than the project's identity.
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
mkimage gains --rootfs-image/--oem-image (raw ext4 matched pair placed
into slot A, size-checked fail-closed; slot B keeps the skeleton as a
known-good fallback), and stage-1 rc now hands the live devtmpfs to the
new root across switch_root — busybox switch_root moves nothing, our
skeleton init remounted defensively, but a REAL image's getty opens
/dev/console immediately and looped on ENOENT without it.
Verified with the 2026-08-24 flare-edge build (rootfs 192M + oem 26M):
the image's own rcS chain runs on the 6.18 virt kernel, real daemons
start (warden-modbus confirmed running via root shell; the shipped
0.2.4 flared reproduces flare-edge#106 exactly, and S99hciinit reports
the issue-#4 btlpm symptom — the VM doubles as a faithful reproducer of
known field bugs), and a getty answers on the console.
qemu/tests/real-image-boot.sh asserts switch_root + daemon starts +
login prompt, credential-free. REAL-IMAGE-BOOT-PASS.
Regression sweep after the shared-path changes: OTA-APPLY-PASS,
PORTAL-SCENARIO-PASS, UI-SHOT-PASS, boot smoke OK.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K
Closes the loop every prior harness stopped short of, entirely
off-hardware: the real flared (WARDEN_HARD_RESET-gated build) pulls a
real signed tier-1 .wfw whose payload is a BOOTABLE rootfs stamped
0.0.2, verifies it, writes /dev/block/by-name/rootfs_b inside disk.img,
and flips the AvbABData (slot B: priority 15, 3 tries, unsuccessful —
the exact pre-first-boot arming state, round-tripped through a portal
check-in). The harness then boots slot _b and asserts the applied
version + marker are what runs. OTA-APPLY-PASS verified end to end.
- mkimage: the misc partition now carries REAL provisioned AvbABData
(bytes mirror flare-edge's provisioning defaults) — slotctl fail-closes
on bad AB magic before writing, which a zeroed misc tripped.
- run.sh --allow-apply / cmdline warden.fwapply: per-boot opt-in that
makes stage-2 init export WARDEN_FW_ALLOW_APPLY=1; never the default.
- stage-2 init also exports WARDEN_HARD_RESET=0 (the CRU poke is fatal on
virt, same class as the HPMCU probe); the harness performs the reboot.
- ADR-0006 boundary documented in the scenario and README: BCB slot
CHOICE and the physical reset remain emulated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K
The hermetic build only ever made zImage+dtb — no 6.18 .ko set existed,
so the panel's only aic8800_btlpm.ko was the stale 5.10 build, which
fails the struct-module ABI check at load. New WARDEN_MODULES_COLLECT
env runs the full `make modules` (required: zImage alone emits no
Module.symvers, so per-directory M= builds cannot link) and collects the
listed dirs' modules fail-closed; CI's kernel-build collects
drivers/net/wireless/aic8800 and ships the .ko files in the artifact.
Verified: all three aic8800 modules (bsp 326K, fdrv 1.5M, btlpm 36K)
compile clean against 6.18, and bsp+btlpm INSMOD WITH RC=0 on the 6.18
kernel in the qemu/ device sim — no linkonce/this_module ABI error;
btlpm's rfkill init runs and only hardware power-up fails (no AIC silicon
on virt, expected). On-panel BT bring-up remains bench-gated (c8a3
currently dark).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K
The qemu/ device sim answered the first question off-board: the same
kernel family under -M virt gives musl vDSO rate ratio 0.99963 — the
generic 6.18 armv7 vDSO is correct, so the board symptom is RV1106
register state (CNTFRQ/CNTVOFF, firmware-owned, secure-world boot chain).
- qemu/tests/clockprobe: interval-based musl probe separating RATE error
(CNTFRQ) from boot OFFSET (CNTVOFF) — the original single absolute
sample cannot distinguish them.
- qemu/tests/clock-sanity.sh: VM regression guard asserting the vDSO rate
within 1% (PASSES: 1.00026); cross-builds the probe and stages it as
payload itself.
- kernel/rv1106-enablement/timer/PLAN.md: the DT fix
(arm,cpu-registers-not-fw-configured + measured clock-frequency on the
board dts) gated on the two bench measurements; c8a3 is currently
physically dark, needs hands at the bench.
- clockprobe joins the CI test loop.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K
ubuntu-latest ships shellcheck 0.9.0, which warns that ash scripts are
checked as dash; 0.10 (local) does not. shell=dash is the accurate dialect
for busybox ash. Verified clean under BOTH versions; boot smoke re-run.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K
- 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
Replaces the dual MIT/Apache-2.0 licensing (and its GPL carve-out) with a
single GPL-2.0-only license for the whole repository: coherent with the
kernel patch series it exists to carry, the embedded-Linux norm, and the
stack's openness principle — anyone shipping products on this SDK publishes
their changes. GPL-2.0 (not 3) deliberately: the Installation-Information
clause of GPLv3 sits badly with WardenOS's signed A/B firmware chain.
LICENSE is now the canonical GPLv2 text; crate manifests updated;
inbound = outbound noted in the README.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K
Decision/directive lines keep their dates and content, drop the name;
hands-on confirmations become "confirmed by hand at the panel"; a dangling
CLAUDE.md reference becomes "repo policy". Upstream vendor author
attributions in the GPL kernel sources (MODULE_AUTHOR, copyright headers,
LKML citations) are third-party legal attributions and stay.
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
Phase 3 of the device sim, all verified on QEMU 10.0.11:
- qemu/rs485-bridge/: std-only crate bridging a QEMU serial chardev (unix
socket) to warden_sim::ModbusSlave — gap-based RTU framing (CRC failures
degrade to real-slave silence), line-protocol control socket for register
seeding and fault injection (drop/exception/clear), bounds-checked so a
scenario typo answers err instead of panicking the bus. 7 unit tests,
bench in the sim_bench pattern. Verified end-to-end: guest master frame
on /dev/ttyS4 (pci-serial) answered from the sim slave, CRC-correct.
- virt machine gains highmem=off: the 32-bit non-LPAE kernel cannot reach
virt's default 40-bit PCIe ECAM (pci-host-generic EOVERFLOW); with it the
full PCI set probes (16550A ttyS0, i6300esb).
- Watchdog scenario verified: guest arms /dev/watchdog, no petting, i6300esb
resets the VM ~30s later (first environment where this arm is testable).
- qemu/tests/portal-scenario.sh: the real static-musl warden-flared inside
the VM against flare-edge's mock portal on the host — authenticated
check-in, firmware desired-state pull, and download of a real signed
tier-1 .wfw offer, asserted from the portal log. Found and filed
flare-edge#106 (fatal SIGBUS in the HPMCU boot-loaded probe on
non-RV1106 memory maps); runs against a flared built from the
qemu-vm-support fix branch.
- stage-2 init: WARDEN_FLARE_INSECURE=1 + WARDEN_HPMCU=0 (documented VM
deviations), firmware-version stamp, newline-terminated state seeds.
- CI: rs485-bridge joins the test loop and bench job; new qemu-tools job
(shellcheck + initramfs + disk image on hosted runners); kernel-build
gains a fail-closed qemu boot-smoke step. All qemu scripts shellcheck-clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K
The third simulator (deliberately not named "sim"): a QEMU -M virt VM that
boots the real 6.18.46 kernel and enters at -kernel zImage — everything below
(BootROM/idblock/U-Boot/real BCB A/B selection) is closed blobs + mask ROM
and is explicitly out of scope.
- qemu/mkinitramfs.sh: pinned static busybox (sha256 fail-closed) + rootfs/
- qemu/mkimage.sh: unprivileged sparse disk image with the device's canonical
12-partition blkdevparts A/B layout (vda == mmcblk0 mapping)
- qemu/rootfs/: stage-1 init (by-name symlinks from PARTNAME uevents,
whole-token warden.slot= parse, switch_root) + stage-2 init (userdata/oem
mounts, slirp networking, payload daemon start)
- qemu/run.sh: runner with --slot/--rtc/--watchdog/--rs485/--qmp/--display
- qemu/configs/virt.fragment + WARDEN_KCONFIG_FRAGMENT hook in
build/build-kernel.sh (canonical RV1106 build untouched when unset):
adds PCI, pci-serial, i6300esb watchdog, WireGuard, virtio-gpu/input
- qemu/tests/boot-smoke.sh: sentinel-asserting boot test
Verified on QEMU 10.0.11: canonical zImage boots -M virt unmodified (the
feared DEBUG_UNCOMPRESS decompressor hang does not exist in 6.18); full
stack boots both slots; 12 by-name symlinks; userdata persists across
reboot; -rtc base=2021-01-01 reproduces the no-RTC wrong-clock class.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_018HUayid7W5w7jBdb9Rrj1K
Mirror flare-edge's artifact GC so the shared Actions storage quota can't fill
from either repo. A new prune-artifacts job (ubuntu, gh + built-in token,
actions:write) runs before the kernel-build upload and deletes older
kernel-rv1106 artifacts beyond the newest 3; kernel-build needs it. retention-days
14 -> 5 as the backstop. Best-effort so it never blocks a build. Completes the
account-wide auto-clear (an over-quota once blocked ALL runs, not just uploads).
The .c/.dts/.frag files here are a point-in-time port-provenance snapshot (with
standalone test programs + instructional fragments the narrative docs reference),
not a maintained second copy of the kernel delta. Add a prominent canonical-source
note so the snapshots (which can lag the final series, e.g. the clk CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED
fix) are never mistaken for current code. patches/ + build/build-kernel.sh remain the
single source of truth.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
The kernel build itself is the gate; uploading the zImage/dtb can fail on an
account-wide GitHub artifact-storage-quota hit unrelated to the build. Mark the
upload continue-on-error so a good build isn't red-X'd by it. Outputs also remain
on the self-hosted runner host.
Verified: kernel-build compiled the RV1106 6.18.46 kernel end-to-end on
bfe-mpc-0640 (zImage 8.25 MB + rv1106-warden.dtb 37 KB); the patch series applied
(issue #1 fix confirmed).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
The kernel-build job set WORK inside the repo checkout, so build-kernel.sh's
`git apply` ran from a subdirectory of the warden-sdk git repo — where git apply
silently ignores out-of-subdir paths and exits 0 without applying anything. The
build then failed at the (never-created) rv1106-warden.dtb target, and the
unconditional `echo "applied"` had masked it.
- ci.yml: WORK -> ${{ runner.temp }}/kbuild-out (outside the checkout); artifact
paths follow.
- build-kernel.sh: the patch loop now fails loudly instead of echoing on silent
failure, and a post-apply sentinel assert (rv1106-warden.dts must exist) makes a
silent no-op impossible to ship — the regression guard for this class.
Refs #1.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
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.
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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
freshness.c (ADR-0004 freshness-contract engine) is pure logic via produce/render
callbacks — no hardware seam needed, the callbacks are the seam. Host harness reaches
100% MC/DC (66/66 conditions, 100% lines, 27 checks) by driving warden_fresh_decide
directly + the bind/tick/invalidate/min-budget state machine through fakes, with
-DFRESH_MAX=2 so the table-full and unused/hidden-slot arms are reachable. Directly
serves future-features-2's "never a stale number in the UI" requirement. The CI mcdc
job now enforces relays + freshness.
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
- patches/: the pristine-6.18.46 -> WardenOS delta as a 13-patch, subsystem-split
series (223 files, ~136K lines: clk, pinctrl, DTs/mach, usb-phy, VOP/panel/rgb,
mailbox, pvtm, rknpu, rga, aic8800 wifi, audio codec, thermal/rtc/adc/gmac/touch).
Verified: every patch applies cleanly onto pristine (git apply --check), the full
series reproduces the hardware-verified tree, and the applied source configures +
builds the warden dtb + rockchip DRM drivers (rc=0).
- build/build-kernel.sh: fetch+verify pristine (sha256-pinned) -> apply series ->
warden_defconfig -> zImage + rv1106-warden.dtb. build/warden_defconfig captured.
- CI: `patches-apply` (GitHub-hosted, cached tarball) enforces the series applies;
`kernel-build` (self-hosted warden-sdk runner, dispatch-gated until registered)
runs the full build and uploads the image.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
benches/sim_bench.rs (harness=false, zero deps): fixed-iteration ns/op timing for
hpmcu_tick, cru_poll, modbus_read_holding, rga_improcess, membus_poke_peek. Human
timings to stdout, one JSON trend line per bench to stderr for CI capture. New CI
`bench` job smoke-runs them. Regression-vs-history gating is future work.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
Bring relays.c into warden-sdk/drivers/ behind a relay_io seam (ADR-0005): the
sysfs plumbing is an injectable backend, the gpio root is $WARDEN_GPIO_ROOT-
overridable. Host harness (drivers/relays/test/) reaches 100% MC/DC (40/40
conditions, 100% lines) by combining fake-io unit tests (logic branches incl.
export->node-appears) with real-sysfs integration tests over a scratch tree
(backend fopen/stat branches). CI `mcdc` job enforces 100% across drivers/*/test.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
test job runs cargo test across sim + config-lint and cargo-llvm-cov line coverage
on the sim crate; badges job renders loc/tests/coverage shields on push to bringup
([skip ci] + paths-ignore loop guard). mcdc/bench/kernel-build jobs land with
P2/P4/P1. README carries the CI + badge row.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
mailbox + NPU + pvtm all now show VERIFIED with accurate notes (the prior
reason cells still said 'unexercised'/'no userspace'/'deferred'). Only
crypto-accel (CPU crypto covers) and open-NPU-compute (person-year RE) remain,
both documented.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
MAILBOX (fully open A7<->RISC-V SCR1 round-trip, 5/5 exact echoes on c8a3):
- rockchip-mailbox.c: rv1106 has 1 shared IRQ, not 4/channel -> added
rv1106_drv_data{num_chans=1} + compatible (rk3368 fallback assumed 4 -> probe
failed 'IRQ index 1 not found').
- clk-rv1106.c: CLK_CORE_MCU (SCR1 core clock) marked CLK_IGNORE_UNUSED -
6.18's clk_disable_unused() was switching off the coprocessor clock so a
loaded firmware never ran (5.10 left it on).
- Open SCR1 echo firmware (scr1-echo/, 154B RV32IMC) + load/test scripts;
A2B_INTEN on the MCU side + CMD-then-DAT (DAT=doorbell) order. Loaded via the
proven hpmcu.rs SRAM path; do NOT kill warden-flared (dw-wdt). mailbox/VERIFIED.md.
NPU (open GPL rknpu 0.9.2 kernel driver on 6.18):
- DT fix: base npu node lacks interrupt-names, driver requests IRQ byname
'npu_irq' -> probe bailed -ENXIO. Added interrupt-names='npu_irq'.
- Verified: [drm] Initialized rknpu 0.9.2 on minor 1; /dev/dri/card1;
rknpu_version_test PASS (0.9.2 + hw version, full power/clock/reset path).
- Honest ceiling: open compute (regcmd compiler) is a from-scratch ~person-year
RE project, no RV1106 prior art; ship the driver, no blob. npu/VERIFIED.md.
DRIVER-PARITY + CAPABILITIES-AUDIT updated; dts snapshot refreshed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
Six drivers verified on hardware this run (wifi, TRNG, OTP, GMAC, SARADC,
audio). Final honest ledger: mailbox (fallback-binds, no client), crypto-v3
(CPU crypto covers), NPU (no open userspace), pvtm (DVFS-only) all deferred
with reasons — no unexplored capability gap. Morning bench tasks documented
(display connector, audible audio, wifi boot-time auto-load).
OVERNIGHT-RESULTS.md added.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
Ported rv1106_codec.c (acodec) + rk_dsm.c (built, dsm disabled — panel uses
acodec) into 6.18 (6 ASoC API-delta fixes: gpiod, volsw unify, DAIFMT CBC/CBP
rename, remove->void, header swaps). simple-audio-card 'rv1106-acodec'.
Fixed the subagent's gap: cpu DAI SND_SOC_ROCKCHIP_I2S_TDM was left =m (module,
never loaded on bare _b boot) so the card stuck in 'asoc-simple-card: parse
error' deferred probe. Set it + SND_SOC_ROCKCHIP =y.
✅ VERIFIED on c8a3: /proc/asound/cards shows rv1106-acodec; aplay -l shows
card 0 device 0 ffae0000.i2s-rv1106-hifi; /dev/snd has pcmC0D0p + pcmC0D0c.
Audible speaker test deferred to the bench (with display).
Six drivers verified this run: wifi, TRNG, OTP, GMAC, SARADC, audio.
audio/PORT-PROGRESS.md; DRIVER-PARITY updated; dts snapshot refreshed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
The saradc -22 was regulator_get_voltage on a dummy vref (no vref-supply in
DT), not the clk divider. Added vcc_1v8 fixed 1.8V regulator + vref-supply
(matching the vendor 86-panel). iio:device0 now reads both channels
(in_voltage0_raw=1023, in_voltage1_raw=246) — the adc-keys path works.
Five drivers verified this run: wifi, TRNG, OTP, GMAC, SARADC.
adc/SARADC-FIX.md; DRIVER-PARITY updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
GMAC ✅ eth0 Link Up 100Mbps/Full on c8a3: ported rv1106_ops into mainline
dwmac-rk.c (VOGRF RMII mode/speed + integrated FEPHY powerup via CON0;
mainline set_speed/powerup split; bandgap trim omitted — analog opt the PHY
runs without). &gmac enabled; uses the internal ethernet-phy@2. gmac/PORT-DONE.md.
OTP ✅ now reads real data (px30_otp_read): 5211 02fe 084d 5231 ('MR1' chip id),
no timeout. rng-otp/PORT-DONE.md updated.
Batch A + GMAC complete — TRNG, OTP, GMAC all verified on hardware.
DRIVER-PARITY updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
On-hardware proof (self-built 6.18.46, _b slot): aic8800 modules load,
download firmware, wlan0 up ([device-mac]), iw scan finds real APs
incl. SSID BlueFlare @ -43dBm. RF path fully functional. See
wifi/VERIFIED-on-c8a3.md.
Two changes from the initial built-in attempt:
- Built-in =y DEADLOCKS: aicbsp_init's eager SDIO bring-up (device_initcall,
sequential) blocks the dw_mmc controller probe that would enumerate the
card it waits for (aicsdio.c:597 2s down_timeout -> unregister). Converted
to modules (=m): AIC_WLAN_SUPPORT bool->tristate; loaded late, after the
mmc-pwrseq enumerates the card — the vendor-proven flow.
- Restored fdrv's own md5.o (each .ko needs its own MD5; bsp doesn't export
it). Refreshed kbuild snapshot accordingly.
Kernel-size fix (CONFIG_KERNEL_GZIP -> XZ): the wifi kernel's 12.12MB gzip
zImage overran U-Boot's DTB-at-0xc00000 load boundary (Sysmem Error, FLARE-AB
fell back to _a). XZ -> 8.15MB, ~4MB headroom; also correct for a firmware
kernel. Uncompressed Image ~30MB but the ARM decompressor relocates the FDT
at runtime, so only the U-Boot load-time overlap mattered.
DRIVER-PARITY: wifi ✅ M5; BT 🔨 (module built, HCI not yet exercised).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
Capabilities audit — classify every RV1106 SoC block against a 6.18 driver:
GMAC (wired eth, enabled on-board), crypto-v3, trngv1 (hw RNG), OTP, mailbox,
NPU, audio codec/DSM, pvtm still to port; camera/ISP + SPI are N/A (no HW).
Provenance ledger — per [maintainer]'s openness directive extended to already-ported
drivers: every ported driver is GPL-2.0 kernel source (vendor-src or
mainline-sibling); the only binary in the whole path is on-device wifi-chip
firmware, which by construction cannot be host source. No vendor binary is
loaded into our kernel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
RTC: ported the vendor rockchip,rv1106-rtc driver (rtc-rockchip.c) to 6.18 — one
API delta (rtc_register_device -> devm_rtc_register_device). Verified on
warden-c8a3: /dev/rtc0 registers and reads.
tsadc thermal: ported the rv1106 data + rk_tsadcv9_initialize + the TSADCV9/VOGRF
macros + code table from the vendor; adapted .chn_id[SENSOR_CPU] -> .chn_offset
for 6.18. Verified: thermal_zone0 "soc-thermal" reads 39.8 C.
i2s-tdm: rv1126 fallback compatible added (DAI builds; sound card needs the acodec
port next). saradc still -22 (clk-rv1106 SARADC divider — deferred).
Includes the NPU + RGA open-source port plans (research): rknpu kernel driver is a
small port (RV1106 config already in the vendor driver; 4 dead-code headers need
compat stubs) but no open userspace exists for this NPU gen; RGA = port the vendor
char-dev rga3 driver (WardenOS's librga uses /dev/rga, not V4L2), + a cma pool +
hrtimer_setup. All ports are open source (vendor C source / mainline siblings).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
The brief: port/enable every remaining RV1106 hardware capability on 6.18,
open-source-first (source we own + can harden, never blobs), new drivers if
needed, zero capabilities left on the table. Priority: AIC8800 wifi/BT, RGA,
rknpu, RTC, tsadc, i2s, saradc-fix, eth0-gadget, then a full capabilities audit.
Display deferred to tomorrow (needs eyes on the panel). Pipelined: research
subagents ∥ port/build/verify on c8a3; krecover-hardened for resilience.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
usb2phy: ported the RV1106 inno-usb2 phy config to 6.18 (rv1106_usb2phy_cfg;
fields map 1:1 except utmi_iddig->utmi_id and chg_mode->opmode; 5.10-only
iddig_output/en/bvalid_grf_sel dropped; phy_tuning left off, guarded so safe).
With PHY_ROCKCHIP_INNO_USB2=y + the u2phy/usbdrd/dwc3 DT enabled, verified on
warden-c8a3: the DWC3 comes up as xhci-hcd @ 0xffb00000 — USB host works. eth0
gadget just needs dr_mode=peripheral.
saradc: added rv1106_saradc_data (2-ch v2, matches the vendor) + the native
compatible. Driver now matches; probe still returns -22 (a clk-rate/setup detail,
not the data) — TODO.
Also captured: the growing board dts (USB nodes), the port fragments under usb/
and adc/. DRIVER-PARITY.md updated: ~14 drivers now at parity on 6.18.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
The RV1106 VOP is the RV-series "lite" VOP (rockchip,rv1106-vop, VOP_VERSION 2.0xc),
mainline's VOP1 driver. Its sibling rv1126 is already in 6.18, so rv1106_vop reuses
rv1126's register sub-structs + VOP_FEATURE_INTERNAL_RGB + the smaller raster.
Verified on warden-c8a3: with the driver delta + DT (vop enabled with named
"ahb"/"dclk" resets, vop_out repointed to a panel-dpi 720x720 node, pwm-backlight
on pwm1), the VOP BINDS and DRM initialises (/dev/dri/card0), and the PWM backlight
comes up. The register data / version / feature / resets are validated.
Open: /sys/class/drm/card0 has no connector yet — rockchip_rgb_init isn't producing
one ("Cannot find any crtc"). Last mile of M4; needs a debug print in rgb_init + the
panel bus_format, and the pixels must be verified on the physical panel (can't be
checked over serial/ssh). Full recipe + next steps in display/README.md.
Also batch-2 config: GPIO_SYSFS, PWM_ROCKCHIP, crypto (aes/ccm/ctr/arc4), CFG80211,
DRM_ROCKCHIP/ROCKCHIP_VOP all =y; PSCI-style SMC removed via the psci-node deletion.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
Move from the hand-built minimal DT to the vendor rv1106.dtsi (full SoC:
pinctrl, gpio×5, dmac, cru+grf_cru, all peripherals), with our lean board DTS
(rv1106-warden.dts) enabling only the wall-HMI's needs — no camera/ISP/CSI.
Two deltas made it boot on 6.18: overwrite boot-mode.h with the vendor's (extra
BOOT_* constants) and DELETE the psci node (no secure monitor → SMC fault →
"Attempted to kill the idle task"). Recipe in dts/README.md.
Verified on warden-c8a3 (uname 6.18.46, full WardenOS userspace): pinctrl,
gpio0-4, pl330 DMA, uart1/2/4 (ttyS1/2/4), i2c3, dw-wdt (watchdog0) all probe.
DRIVER-PARITY.md tracks the remaining ports (VOP display, AIC8800 wifi, rknpu,
usb2phy, saradc-compat, RGA) toward full parity with the 5.10 kernel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
Adding the eMMC dw_mmc node (mmc@ffa90000, clocks from cru + grf_cru) was all M3
needed. On warden-c8a3 the 6.18 kernel enumerates the eMMC at HS200
(mmcblk0 8GTF4R 7.28 GiB), mounts the ext4 rootfs, runs /sbin/init, and starts
every WardenOS daemon. Serial root login confirms:
Linux warden-c8a3 6.18.46 armv7l
ps: warden-flared warden-modbus warden-mikrotik warden-asic warden-ui warden-flight
Expected M4/M5 gaps are clean failures: the 5.10 aic8800 wifi/BT .ko won't load on
6.18 (vermagic), and no backlight/framebuffer yet (no VOP node). Next: M4 display,
M5 AIC8800 SDIO port, M6 the rest; plus a lean defconfig + Buildroot-on-6.18.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017wB8KB3MMQztRDXCMCkPrf
The Linux 6.18.46 forward-port boots on the panel through our ported drivers,
verified on the serial console: earlycon, arch timer (BogoMIPS calibrated), our
clk-rv1106 CRU, pinctrl, and the mainline 8250 bound to uart2 clocked by our CRU
(ttyS2 16550A), then rootfs mount.
Two DT fixes got it past "Starting kernel":
- fdt placed high (load=0x08000000) so the bloated multi_v7 zImage (~20 MiB
decompressed) stops overrunning the DTB at 0xc00000 (was: r2=0, "invalid dtb").
- added the rockchip,rv1106-grf-cru node (grf-clock-controller child of grf) so
clk-rv1106's grf_ctx isn't NULL (was: panic in rockchip_clk_register_branches).
Console pinned to 115200 (readable on the CP2102 bench adapter; prod uses 1.5M).
The boot-image format and the A/B _b-slot safe-test method (which auto-reverted to
_a on every failed attempt) are in docs/m2-boot-on-c8a3.md. M3 next: lean defconfig
+ dw_mmc DT + our Buildroot userspace rebuilt on 6.18.
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).
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M1 is complete (clk + pinctrl + mach compile clean); this reaches M2's build
milestone. multi_v7_defconfig + configs/m2-earlycon.fragment builds an 11.8 MB
zImage with clk-rv1106.o and pinctrl-rockchip.o (our rv1106 data) compiled into
the full tree — no rv1106 warnings. dts/rv1106-warden-m2.dts (CPU, GIC-400, arch
timer, 256 MiB RAM, GRF, the CRU, uart2 as snps,dw-apb-uart) compiles clean at
W=1 with earlycon=uart8250,mmio32,0xff4c0000. Reproducible via build-m2.sh.
Boot is the next step and is on-hardware/attended: package zImage + dtb, load on
a bench unit with a recovery net, watch for the earlycon "it's alive". PORT-VERIFY
before trusting a boot: DDR size/base, the CPU clock mux, console baud.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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2-line DT-compat add to rockchip_board_dt_compat[] (rv1103 + rv1106), per the
breadth survey. Did NOT recreate the dropped CPU_RV1106 symbol (mainline IDs the
SoC purely via DT compat at runtime). clk + pinctrl + mach = the 3 core compile
components; DT + defconfig + full build remain for M2 (console boot).
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M1 pinctrl ported from vendor 5.10 (effort S, no API drift): enum, DRV/PULL/SMT
macros + 3 calc fns, case RV1106 in the 3 pull fns + RK3568 drive group, pin_banks
+ pin_ctrl, of_device_id (dropped CPU_RV1106 guard). pinctrl-rockchip.o 173KB, no
errors. iomux DRV/PULL/SMT offsets cross-validated against the upstream Simon Glass
v3 patch (match with the 0x10000 per-bank IOC base) -> the boot-critical iomux
PORT-VERIFY is retired via a 3rd independent source, no hardware. Upstream tracked
as a correctness oracle (doesn't apply to 6.18 cleanly; unmerged).
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Per [maintainer]: forward-port the RV1106 SoC enablement from the vendor 5.10 tree to
6.18 LTS ourselves (no plan44), on our Buildroot. Verified mainline has ZERO
RV1106 support, so this is a whole-BSP port. docs/bringup.md = the console-first
milestone plan + method (sibling-delta from rv1126/rv1108, which exist in both
trees). M1 (clk driver) underway: gcc-8.3 builds 6.18; wired CLK_RV1106; ported
55 CRU macros + the panic_notifier header split + the armclk signature change
(flagged PORT-VERIFY for the CPU-mux, TRM-check needed). Captured in
rv1106-enablement/. Honest: first of ~120 files; multi-month effort.
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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).
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New from-scratch SDK for WardenOS (RV1106). First substance: the hardware
simulator's core — a MemBus register/SRAM seam (one trait, real /dev/mem backend
on device + in-memory SimBus on host) and a faithful port of the HPMCU watchdog
firmware (hpmcu/watchdog/main.c) as HpmcuSim, with 8 tests validating boot-grace
fire, heartbeat-timeout, disarm stand-down, and the flared arm-within-grace safety
property (no boot-loop) — all off-device, in a virtual clock, in <1ms.
This closes the gap the Explore map flagged: flared's devmem.rs/hpmcu.rs are the
only register-touching modules with zero tests. README lays out the SDK vision
(modern kernel, tiered driver MC/DC, proper RGA/HPMCU/NPU simulator, own repo).
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