Kernel (C++17 freestanding):
- New Analytics Engine (kernel/cpp/cpp_analytics.cpp): templated rolling
time-series (TimeSeries<N>) sampling four live channels -- CPU load %,
memory %, kernel-heap %, network pkt/interval -- with windowed statistics
(min/max/mean/stddev) computed in pure integer math (kernel is -mno-sse, so
no FP; stddev uses a Newton integer isqrt). Demonstrates virtual dispatch
via an Observer pattern (IAnalyticsObserver + a ThresholdAlarmObserver that
counts breaches) and RAII singletons.
- Extended cpp_containers.hpp with Optional<T>, Pair<A,B>, and the kmin/kmax/
kclamp/kswap algorithms.
- Full C fallback (cpp_fallback.c) so the engine is functionally identical on
aarch64/armv8i, which don't build the .cpp path.
- Wired cpp_analytics_init() into boot [8/14]; seeds a few samples so graphs
are populated immediately.
GUI:
- New "Analytics" desktop app (gui/gui_apps.c): a 2x2 grid of live line-charts
backed by the C++ engine, each with gridlines, a soft baseline fill, and
min/avg/max(/stddev) overlays; click a panel to focus one channel full-size,
click again to return. Throttled to ~2 Hz sampling off the compositor's
repaint cadence. Registered on the desktop and in the start menu.
Userland: new `cppstat [samples]` applet dumps the engine's per-channel stats
and Observer breach counters.
Verified in QEMU (x86_64): boots clean on x86_64/aarch64/armv8i; `cppstat`
prints live stats (CPU 6%, Mem 7%, Heap 22%, computed min/avg/max/stddev,
Observer breaches); the GUI Analytics window renders all four graphs with the
Kernel Heap curve visibly climbing 22->55% as windows open, compositor steady
at ~53 FPS.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fh5z6V7nGPbHvqVG5p4CXX
Kernel (NT I/O subsystem):
- kernel/nt/io.c + include/kernel/nt/io.h (new): DRIVER_OBJECTs with a
MajorFunction dispatch table, DEVICE_OBJECTs that can be stacked (attached),
and IRPs pushed down the stack via io_call_driver / completed with
io_complete_request. Ships three demo drivers: \Driver\Null (write sink,
EOF reads), \Driver\Zero (zero-filled reads), and \Driver\Monitor -- a filter
attached above \Device\Null that counts and forwards each IRP down the stack.
Wired into the [12/14] boot step.
- LazyBox `iodev` lists drivers/devices with the stack and IRP counters, then
runs a live demo: a WRITE IRP through the filtered Null stack and a READ from
the Zero device.
GUI:
- gui/gui_apps.c: "Registry Editor" -- navigate the NT \Registry hive tree,
click subkeys to descend and ".." to go up, with a values pane showing each
value's name/type/data. Registered in the app table (start menu).
Verified live in the GUI terminal (screenshotted): 3 drivers / 3 devices, the
NullMonitor->Null device stack, a 16-byte WRITE sunk through the filter
(status 0x0), and an 8-byte zeroed READ from \Device\Zero. Clean build on
x86_64/aarch64/armv8i; 0 panics / 0 OOM.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fh5z6V7nGPbHvqVG5p4CXX
Kernel (NT Configuration Manager):
- kernel/nt/reg.c + include/kernel/nt/reg.h (new): a hive/key/value registry
rooted at "\Registry", with typed values (REG_SZ/DWORD/QWORD/BINARY/MULTI_SZ,
type codes matching Win32). reg_create_key/reg_open_key walk backslash paths;
setters/getters, enumeration, and value->string rendering. reg_init() seeds
\Registry\Machine (Hardware, System\CurrentControlSet\Control, Software\SUB-OS)
and \Registry\User\.DEFAULT. Wired into the [12/14] boot step.
- LazyBox `reg query|add|set|stats` explores and edits the registry.
GUI:
- gui/gui_apps.c: "Object Browser" -- a WinObj-style live tree view of the NT
object namespace (\), flattening directories/events/semaphores/mutants with
indentation, per-type colouring, ref/handle counts, live object/handle stats,
and click-to-scroll. Registered in the app table (start menu).
Verified live in the GUI terminal (screenshotted): registry reports 13 keys /
11 values; `reg query \Registry\Machine\Software\SUB-OS` lists Version,
BuildArch (REG_SZ), GrowableHeap/ObjectManager (REG_DWORD) and InstallCookie
(REG_QWORD) with correct types. Clean build on x86_64/aarch64/armv8i; 0 panics.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fh5z6V7nGPbHvqVG5p4CXX
Rust kernel expansion:
- rust/src/compress/mod.rs (new): memory-safe PackBits-style run-length
encoding codec (rle_compress / rle_decompress) with C-ABI shims, registered
in lib.rs. C fallbacks added to rust_fallback.c so aarch64/armv8i match.
- include/kernel/rust.h: FFI declarations for the codec.
- LazyBox: new `rle <text>` applet that compresses, decompresses, prints the
ratio and verifies the round-trip is lossless.
GUI expansion:
- gui/gui_apps.c: "Rust Lab" app -- a live dashboard for the Rust subsystem.
Shows CRC-32C/Adler-32 of a sample, measured ChaCha20/SHA3-256/AES-128
throughput as scaled bars plus a composite score (benchmark run once at
launch and cached), and a live ChaCha20 CSPRNG byte stream refreshed
periodically. Per-window state freed on close.
- Registered "Rust Lab" (info icon) in the desktop app table and on the
desktop; desktop icon indices updated for the new entry.
Verified: clean build on x86_64/aarch64/armv8i; boots through the SUB login to
the desktop with the new Rust Lab icon rendering (screenshotted); checksum
self-test prints, 0 panics / 0 OOM.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fh5z6V7nGPbHvqVG5p4CXX
Rust kernel expansion:
- rust/src/checksum/mod.rs (new): memory-safe CRC-32C (Castagnoli), Adler-32,
and FNV-1a-64 with thin C-ABI shims. Registered in lib.rs with a boot-time
self-test (crc32c("SUB-OS")=0x61e96ce9, verified against a reference impl).
- include/kernel/rust.h: FFI declarations; rust/rust_fallback.c: matching C
fallbacks so aarch64/armv8i (no native rustc target) get identical results.
- LazyBox: new `cksum <text>` applet printing all three via the Rust engine.
GUI expansion:
- gui/gui_apps.c: Conway's Game of Life -- an interactive B3/S23 cellular
automaton with Play/Pause/Step/Random/Clear toolbar, click-to-toggle cells,
a live generation/population readout, and a board that scales with the
window. The Random button seeds from the Rust ChaCha20 CSPRNG. Toolbar and
cell input are gated on the MOUSE_DOWN edge so they do not re-fire while held.
- Registered "Life" (flask icon) in the desktop app table and on the desktop.
Verified: clean build on x86_64/aarch64/armv8i; boots through the SUB login to
the desktop (screenshotted) with the checksum self-test and 0 panics/0 OOM.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fh5z6V7nGPbHvqVG5p4CXX
Kernel / memory:
- mm/kmalloc.c: fix "Heap: Out of memory" under the GUI. The desktop allocates
three full-screen 32-bit buffers (~11MB) which overflowed the fixed 16MB pool.
The heap now starts at 32MB and grows on demand from the PMM (16MB regions),
with region-safe coalescing (only merges physically adjacent blocks) so growth
never corrupts across separate PMM allocations. Adds heap_get_grow_count().
Build / run:
- Makefile: merge `run-gui` into `run` so `make run` boots into the graphical
desktop; add `run-headless` (serial-only via QEMU_CMD), bump guest RAM to
256M, update .PHONY and help.
Configure:
- scripts/kconfig/menuconfig.py: gate the curses UI behind isatty() on stdin and
stdout so non-interactive `make configure` stops emitting "nocbreak() returned
ERR" and falls cleanly through to the non-interactive writer.
GUI / userland:
- gui/gui_apps.c: rebuild the System Monitor from hardcoded values into live
telemetry -- real heap used/total/free with a colour-shifting bar, a scrolling
heap-utilisation graph, the grow counter, and real PMM RAM figures.
- lazybox `free`: report how many times the heap has grown.
Auth:
- Default login is now SUB / SUB (Kali-style username==password), seeded first
as the primary uid-0 account and set as the logged-in user; root kept for
compatibility. Hardcoded "root" defaults (whoami, su, passwd, ssh, sshd
session) updated to SUB.
Verified: clean build on x86_64/aarch64/armv8i; GUI boots with 0 OOM/0 panic;
auth engine initialises cleanly; `make configure` fallback is clean.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Fh5z6V7nGPbHvqVG5p4CXX
The GUI terminal recognised four hardcoded strings and answered everything else
with "Executed: '<cmd>'". It now dispatches to the same LazyBox applet table and
shell builtins the kernel TTY uses, so ls, free, uname, lspci, ktest, neofetch,
sort, cd and the rest all work, with cwd tracked across commands.
LazyBox reports through printk, so before running a command the terminal
installs a printk sink and streams the output into its own scrollback:
- ANSI SGR codes become per-line colours instead of being stripped.
- CP437 box-drawing and block characters fall back to ASCII, so the colour
swatch in neofetch renders as '#' rather than a row of '?'.
- 256 lines of scrollback, command history on Up/Down, PgUp/PgDn/Home/End.
- Applets that read the keyboard directly (nano, snake, sh, top) are refused
with a pointer to the TTY, since they would block the compositor.
The window's paint and event handlers moved out of gui_apps.c into
gui/gui_terminal.c, and gui_gfx.c now draws from the shared lib/font8x8.c table
rather than its own copy.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01L5yKJT4Wo2cV3rfPrwY5MP
- Upgrade resolution to 800x600 @ 32bpp TrueColor with Bochs/QEMU VBE LFB
- Implement full 8042 Aux PS/2 mouse controller driver on IRQ 12 (vector 44) with packet decode and bounds clamping
- Add high-definition 8x16 font rasterizer with text drop shadows for sharp typography
- Upgrade to smooth 16x24 anti-aliased cursor with dark slate outline and drop shadow
- Increase titlebars to 24px and taskbar to 32px with modern desktop styling
- Re-architect applications (SysMon, Terminal, Explorer, Calc, Paint, About) for spacious high-res display
- Create separate feature branch 'feat/gui-desktop'
- Implement double-buffered 2D graphics engine with alpha blending, gradients, rounded rects, and font rasterization in gui/gui_gfx.c and include/gui/gui_gfx.h
- Implement alpha-blended mouse pointer overlay in gui/gui_cursor.c and include/gui/gui_cursor.h
- Implement SUB-WM Window Manager with draggable titlebars, close/minimize buttons, drop shadows, and event routing in gui/gui_wm.c and include/gui/gui_wm.h
- Implement Cyberpunk/Nord desktop environment with wallpaper, taskbar, start menu popup, and system tray in gui/gui_desktop.c and include/gui/gui_desktop.h
- Implement built-in GUI apps: System Performance Monitor, GUI Terminal Emulator, File Explorer, Calculator, Paint Studio, and About dialog in gui/gui_apps.c and include/gui/gui_apps.h
- Add 'startx', 'gui', and 'desktop' applets in LazyBox suite
- Verified multi-architecture compilation across x86_64, AArch64, and ARMv8i
