Login:
- Add console_login() (security/auth.c): an interactive boot-time username /
password gate rendered on the framebuffer console before any session starts.
It blocks until valid credentials are entered, masks the password, scrubs it
from the stack, and sets the current user. Default account is SUB / SUB, shown
as a hint. Wired into the boot handoff in kernel/main.c ahead of both the GUI
desktop and the emergency TTY shell.
Configure:
- scripts/kconfig/menuconfig.py: fix the architecture (and optimization) picker.
The lxdialog front-end used --radiolist, where <Enter> confirms the ORIGINAL
choice and only <Space> moves the dot -- so highlighting a new architecture
and pressing <Enter> appeared to do nothing. Single-choice groups now use
--menu (with --default-item), where <Enter> selects the highlighted row
directly. Also stop the unconditional save-on-exit from overriding an explicit
"No" at the exit confirmation.
Verified: SUB/SUB logs in (injected via QEMU monitor) -> "Login successful" ->
desktop starts; the desktop stays blocked until login. dialog --menu selection
of aarch64 persists to .config/autoconf.h and retargets `make`. Clean build on
x86_64/aarch64/armv8i.
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 configurator had four defects that made buttons and selection behave
erratically in `make configure`.
lxdialog front-end:
- Pressing <Help> in a subsystem menu discarded every toggle made since the
menu was opened, because dialog reports only the focused tag and the result
was thrown away. Pass --help-status and fold the returned state back into
the config before showing help.
- <Help> always showed the generic subsystem blurb even though all 41 options
carry their own help text. Resolve the focused tag and show that item's help.
- The main menu prompt promised <Exit> but dialog rendered <Cancel>; label the
button to match.
curses fallback:
- The Help button raised AttributeError and killed the UI at top level: the
root node is the MENU_TREE list itself, and the fallback argument
`current_menu.get("help", ...)` is evaluated eagerly even when the item has
its own help.
- The '?' hotkey was nested inside the <Enter> branch where `key` can only be
a newline, so it was unreachable dead code.
- The button-bar spacing went negative on a narrow dialog and pushed the last
buttons through the right border; centre and clamp the row instead.
Front-end selection no longer swallows exceptions silently, so a crash reports
itself instead of looking like an unresponsive UI.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <[email protected]>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0161Jh7uCEMLYEMNPsjC1LKf
- Support 'armv81' and 'armv81_defconfig' aliases in Makefile and Kconfig menuconfig.py
- Fix uint64_t to pointer cast on 32-bit ARM in LazyBox shell.c
- Add Linux kernel lxdialog GUI integration using dialog tool
- Support royal blue backdrop, floating gray dialog windows, 3D drop shadows
- Add bottom button bar: < Select >, < Exit >, < Help >, < Save >, < Defaults >
- Add full context-sensitive Help dialogs for every kernel subsystem and driver
- Provide pixel-perfect Python Curses GUI replica with Tab/Arrow/Hotkeys navigation
- Auto-generate .config and include/config/autoconf.h
- Guard curses curs_set(0) and use_default_colors() against terminal ERR
- Guard color pairs with curses.has_colors() checks
- Implement run_ansi_fallback() for non-curses/headless/dumb terminals
- Ensure 'make configure' runs seamlessly in all terminal environments
