Re: [PATCH glibc] Stop checking if MiG supports retcode.

[Flávio Cruz]

Hi Sergey

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 4:02 AM Sergey Bugaev <bugaevc@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

On Fri, May 19, 2023 at 9:43 AM Flávio Cruz <flaviocruz@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have made changes so that it does daily builds and I'm able to boot small programs. However, I haven't had the time to boot programs built against Glibc. How do you package and boot the static binaries using a ramdisk? I've been reading the other threads about the Guix/rumpkernel so I might be able to piece something together and try it this weekend.

You just put the entirety of the root filesystem (containing /usr,
/bin, /lib, /hurd, and so on) as an ext2 image into a *file* that you
place onto the actual drive (a CD disk in my case), and then you ask
GRUB to load the file from the drive into memory, tell gnumach to make
a ramdisk device out of it (you'll need to apply [0]), and tell ext2fs
to use that device. Here's the relevant piece of my grub config
script:

[0]: https://salsa.debian.org/hurd-team/gnumach/-/blob/master/debian/patches/50_initrd.patch

multiboot /boot/gnumach console=com0
module /boot/initrd.ext2 initrd.ext2 '$(ramdisk-create)'
module /sbin/ext2fs.static ext2fs
--multiboot-command-line='${kernel-command-line}' --readonly
--host-priv-port='${host-port}' --device-master-port='${device-port}'
--exec-server-task='${exec-task}' --kernel-task='${kernel-task}' -T
device rd0 '$(fs-task=task-create)' '$(prompt-task-resume)'
module /lib/ld.so.1 ld.so.1 /hurd/exec
--device-master-port='${device-port}' '$(exec-task=task-create)'
boot

(I should probably change it to not hardcode 'rd0', but whatever).
Note that /boot/gnumach, /boot/initrd.ext2, /sbin/ext2fs.static, and
/lib/ld.so.1 are all paths inside the CD image (those are going to be
loaded by GRUB), and /boot/initrd.ext2 is the ext2 filesystem image
containing the actual Hurd root. /hurd/exec however is already a path
inside the fs image -- this is where ld.so (not grub) is going to load
the exec server from. The only static binary here is ext2fs.static,
the rest are all dynamically linked.

Then in /libexec/console-run (inside the filesystem image), I have
written the following:

#! /bin/sh

settrans -ac /dev/mach-console /hurd/streamio console
exec <>/dev/mach-console >&0 2>&0
echo Hello from /bin/sh!
exec /bin/sh -i

(If you're going to do the same, don't forget to create the
/dev/mach-console node beforehand, since the fs is read-only.) I also
had to patch streamio a little to do the \r -> \n conversion like
glibc already does in devstream:

diff --git a/trans/streamio.c b/trans/streamio.c
index 272a002c..0af1aea3 100644
--- a/trans/streamio.c
+++ b/trans/streamio.c
@@ -500,6 +500,9 @@ trivfs_S_io_read (struct trivfs_protid *cred,
                  cred->po->openmodes & O_NONBLOCK);
   pthread_mutex_unlock (&global_lock);
   *data_len = data_size;
+  for (size_t i = 0; i < data_size; i++)
+    if ((*data)[i] == '\r')
+      (*data)[i] = '\n';
   return err;
 }

(maybe I should also add echoing of input characters in the same way,
which is also what glibc's devstream does -- otherwise currently I
don't see what I'm typing on the console).

Make sure to use the very latest glibc (Samuel has already pushed all
of my patches upstream!) + the BRK_START hack.

Thanks for the instructions. I was able to make it work and pushed my changes to Github.

For people that might want to try out the new port using https://github.com/flavioc/cross-hurd,

the following will download the packages and build a disk image with the ram disk:

$ export CPU=x86_64

$ bash download.sh && bash bootstrap.sh && bash compile.sh && bash create-initrd.sh

Then, to run qemu:

$ bash start-qemu-debug.sh

Sergey