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How to use Genode with the Fiasco microkernel
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Norman Feske, Christian Helmuth
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Abstract
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This documentation describes the process of building and booting the L4/Fiasco
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version of Genode. It assumes that you are familiar with basic concepts
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described in the introductory documentation of Genode, namely the "How to start
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exploring Genode" document.
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Preconditions
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The Fiasco version of Genode relies on the following components from
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the source tree of the Fiasco microkernel and the L4 environment (which also
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need additional tools).
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Tools
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* Gawk
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* Bison
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* Byacc
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* Python
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The Fiasco microkernel
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Information about Fiasco are provided at its official website:
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! http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/prev/
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To download the kernel and integrate it with Genode, issue the following
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command from within the toplevel directory:
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! ./tool/ports/prepare_port fiasco
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For the vesa driver on x86 the x86emu library is required and can be downloaded
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and prepared by invoking the following command:
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! ./tool/ports/prepare_port x86emu
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This command will download a prepackaged version of the kernel tested
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with Genode. The build process of the kernel is integrated with Genode's
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build system. After creating a build directory using 'create_builddir'
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with 'fiasco_x86' as argument:
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! <genode-dir>/tool/create_builddir fiasco_x86 \
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! BUILD_DIR=<build-dir>
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From within the new <build-dir>, the kernel can be compiled via
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! make kernel
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When using Genode's run mechanism, there is no need to explicitly
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build the kernel. The run environment (see 'base-fiasco/run/env')
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takes care of it. So you can simple execute run scripts from within
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the build directory, for example:
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! make run/demo
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Behind the scenes
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For using the L4/Fiasco kernel, some basic user-level components and libraries
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are needed. These are subsumed under the name L4 environment an are organized
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as a number of packages. These packages provide two types of components. There
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are low-level components for booting up and interfacing to Fiasco and there are
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higher-level components that compose a basic OS infrastructure. For Genode, we
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only rely on the low-level packages.
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Previous versions of Genode included all necessary sources from the L4
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environment in the '3rd/fiasco/snapshot' subdirectory. From release 10.02, the
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'3rd' directory is no longer part of the release archive and also removed from
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the subversion repository. Please download the '3rd_fiasco.tar.bz2' archive.
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The source are organized as follows
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:'tool': contains the tools that are used by the build processes of
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the L4 environment and Fiasco. For example, the build process of Fiasco
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relies on the 'preprocess' tool.
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:'kernel': contains the Fiasco microkernel.
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:'l4': contains the L4-environment source tree. The single packages
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are located at 'l4/pkg'.
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From all the packages of the L4 environment, the following three are of
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interest for using Genode:
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:'pkg/l4sys': contains the Fiasco system-call bindings.
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The system-call bindings are a set of C-header files that define the
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application-programming interface for invoking the system calls of
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Fiasco.
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:'pkg/sigma0':
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Sigma0 is the initial memory manager required to use Fiasco.
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:'pkg/bootstrap':
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Bootstrap is the program that is started by the boot loader.
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After being started, Bootstrap prepares the bare machine to
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accommodate Fiasco. On many embedded architectures, bootstrap
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is used to create a single binary image containing all boot-time
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OS components.
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To build all components under '3rd/fiasco' after extracting the
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archive, issue the following commands:
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! mkdir <build-dir>
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! make -C 3rd/fiasco BUILD_DIR=<build-dir>/3rd build
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The specified '<build-dir>' must be the absolute path to the
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directory, which will contain the build directories for the third party
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software and the Genode build directory. After the build, your compound
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build directory contains the following subdirectories:
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:'fiasco_x86':
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All generated files and the final binary of Fiasco reside here.
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:'l4env':
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L4 environment binaries and header files.
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