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# Porting the Kernel to a New Architecture
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The kernel is written so that everything outside `kernel/src/Arch/` is
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architecture-neutral. A port is one directory, `kernel/src/Arch/<arch>/`,
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implementing the interfaces declared in `kernel/src/Arch/*.hpp` (plus a few
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interface headers elsewhere, listed below). The build compiles the generic
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tree plus `Arch/$(ARCH)/` only.
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`scripts/check-arch-neutral.sh` enforces the boundary and should pass before
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every commit that touches the kernel:
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- no inline assembly, assembly sources or architecture `#if`s outside
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`src/Arch/` (the Limine adapter is the one exception: `limine.h` has
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per-architecture SMP structures);
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- no generic file includes a port's private headers (`<Arch/x86_64/...>`);
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- with clang installed, the kernel compiles for `aarch64` and every symbol
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the generic code references is defined by the port.
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## Layout
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```
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kernel/src/Arch/
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Arch.hpp target selection (MONTAUK_ARCH_*), MONTAUK_ARCH_NAME
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Cpu.hpp inline CPU primitives (interrupt state, halt, barriers,
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timestamp counter, TLB, page-table root)
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Interrupts.hpp IRQ slots, handler registration, legacy line routing,
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MSI message composition, IPIs
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Smp.hpp Smp::CpuData (generic fields + arch sub-structs),
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per-CPU base access, InitBsp / BootAPs
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Context.hpp thread context: FPU area, initial kernel stack,
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SwitchContext, ActivateThread, EnterUserMode
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Abi.hpp user ABI: ELF machine, relocation kinds, TLS variant,
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exit stub, initial user stack, EFI calling convention
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Syscall.hpp SyscallFrame contract and entry-point installation
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Timer.hpp per-CPU tick timer hardware
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Platform.hpp boot-sequence hooks, platform device list, reboot
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CpuPower.hpp frequency scaling / thermal governor (may be no-ops)
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x86_64/ the complete port
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aarch64/ the port in progress (see below)
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```
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Other interfaces a port implements:
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| Header | What the port provides |
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| `Memory/Paging.hpp` | the whole `Memory::VMM::Paging` class: page-table format, kernel and user mappings, address-space creation and teardown |
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| `Io/IoPort.hpp` | port I/O (`Io::In8`...), or the absent-device fallback with `HasPortIo = false` |
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| `ACPI/AcpiSleep.hpp` | `Initialize` / `IsS3Available` / `Suspend` (S3 via the FACS waking vector is an x86 mechanism) |
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| `Common/Panic.hpp` | `Arch::PanicFrame` and `Arch::PrintPanicFrame` |
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Interface headers that need inline definitions include the port's header of
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the same name at their end (`Arch/Cpu.hpp` -> `Arch/<arch>/Cpu.hpp`); those
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are `Cpu.hpp`, `IoPort.hpp`, `PerCpu.hpp`, `Context.hpp`, `Abi.hpp` and
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`SyscallFrame.hpp`. Everything else is an ordinary out-of-line function.
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## Boot sequence
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`kmain` (`Boot/Main.cpp`) owns the order and calls the port at fixed points:
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1. `Arch::EarlyInitialize()` - descriptor tables, FPU/SIMD enable. No allocator.
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2. Frame allocator and heap come up (generic).
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3. `Arch::InitializeTraps()` - exception vectors.
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4. `Paging::Init()` switches to the kernel's own page tables, then
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`Arch::InitializeMemoryAttributes()` (x86: PAT for write-combining).
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5. ACPI tables are parsed (generic). `Arch::InitializeInterrupts(xsdt)` brings
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up interrupt controllers, calls `Smp::InitBsp()`, idle and power
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management; kmain then calls `Arch::EnableInterrupts()`.
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6. PCI, AML, drivers (generic); `Timekeeping::TimerInitialize()` registers
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`IRQ_TIMER` and calls `Arch::Timer::InitializeBsp(1)`.
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7. `Arch::InitializePlatformDevices()` (x86: PS/2).
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8. `Arch::PrepareUserMode()`, `montauk::abi::InitializeSyscalls()` (calls
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`Arch::InitializeSyscallEntry()`), scheduler, IPC.
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9. `Smp::BootAPs()`, `Arch::LateInitialize()`, first process, idle loop.
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## Assumptions the generic kernel makes
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- 64-bit, little-endian, 4 KiB pages.
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- A higher-half direct map of physical memory (`Memory::HHDM`), as Limine
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provides on every architecture.
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- User space in the lower half of each address space, kernel in the upper
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half; an address space is identified by the physical address of its root
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table (on ARM, the TTBR0 table; the kernel half lives in TTBR1).
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- Firmware tables via ACPI (`Hal::ACPI`); device-tree-only platforms would
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need a discovery path first.
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- Interrupts are numbered IRQ slots (`Arch::IRQ_COUNT`); slot numbers for
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MSI-capable drivers are fixed in the drivers.
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## The aarch64 port
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Real: CPU primitives (DAIF, WFI, `CNTVCT_EL0`, TLBI, TTBR0), per-CPU data via
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`TPIDR_EL1`, the context switch and EL0 entry (`Context.S`), TLS through
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`TPIDR_EL0`, the ELF/TLS/exit-stub ABI (syscall number in x8), the IRQ slot
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dispatch table (`ArchIrqDispatch`), panic-frame printing, and:
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- Exception vectors (`Vectors.S`, installed in `EarlyInitialize`). Every
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exception saves one 288-byte frame that is both `Arch::PanicFrame` and
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`Arch::SyscallFrame`. EL0 `svc` goes to `SyscallDispatch`; other
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synchronous exceptions go to `ArchSyncException` (`Exceptions.cpp`), which
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grows user stacks and lazy anonymous memory, kills faulting processes with
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a crash report, and panics on kernel faults.
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- Translation tables (`Paging.cpp`): 4 KiB granule, 48-bit VAs. The kernel
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half lives in its own TTBR1 table; `KernelRoot()` is the TTBR0 table of
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kernel contexts (EFI identity mappings only, so null pointers fault). The
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HHDM maps only the memory map's RAM and firmware regions, never the holes
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between them (device space on ARM). MAIR: 0 Normal WB, 1 Normal NC
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(`MapWC`), 2 Device-nGnRE (`MapMMIO`).
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- GICv2 (`Interrupts.cpp`, from the MADT): IRQ slots map onto INTIDs --
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`IRQ_TIMER` onto the generic timer's PPI, the MSI slots (24-45) onto the
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SPIs of a GICv2m MSI frame (`ComposeMsi`), the IPI slots onto SGIs 0/1.
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Interrupts are completed (EOI) before the handler runs, as on x86; a
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level-triggered source drops its line first in an ack hook.
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- Generic timer tick (`Timer.cpp`): the EL1 virtual timer at
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`CNTFRQ_EL0`, its PPI from the GTDT, re-armed from the ack hook.
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- PSCI `SYSTEM_RESET` / `SYSTEM_OFF` (`Arch::Reboot` / `Arch::PowerOff`)
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through the conduit the FADT's ARM_BOOT_ARCH names. Hardware-reduced
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ACPI has no PM1 block, so `AcpiShutdown` leaves power-off to the port.
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- `Arch::SyncInstructionCache` after the ELF loader writes code: ARM
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instruction fetch does not snoop data writes (QEMU hides this; real
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cores do not). EL0 may maintain caches itself (`SCTLR_EL1.UCI`).
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Not yet written (each is marked `TODO(aarch64)`):
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- Secondary CPU start-up (`Smp::BootAPs`).
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- PCI INTx: the PC interrupt lines (slots 1-23) have no ARM meaning, so
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`RouteLegacyIrq` refuses them. Routing a PCI pin needs its `_PRT`
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entry and a GSI-based routing call; until then PCI drivers use MSI
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(GICv2m) or polling.
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The generic kernel is compiled `-fsigned-char` for AArch64: it was written
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for x86's signed plain `char`.
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Building it needs `clang` and `ld.lld`; without a system `ld.lld` the
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kernel makefile uses the one rustup ships
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(`~/.rustup/toolchains/*/lib/rustlib/*/bin/gcc-ld/ld.lld`), and `KERNEL_LD=`
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overrides both. `make run ARCH=aarch64` boots the full image (desktop, apps,
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USB keyboard and mouse) on QEMU `virt` with a GICv2 and Cortex-A72 cores, the
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Raspberry Pi 4/400's configuration; it needs `qemu-system-aarch64` and
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`qemu-efi-aarch64`, and the userspace compiler
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(`./toolchain/build-montauk-toolchain.sh aarch64`). `KERNEL_ONLY=1` builds an
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image without userspace.
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The kernel console is mirrored to the serial port the ACPI SPCR table names
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(PL011, SBSA UART, 16550 or the BCM2835 mini UART; `Drivers/Serial/Uart.cpp`),
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including the log written before the port was found. On QEMU that is
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`-serial stdio`.
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## Userspace
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The programs are architecture-neutral C/C++ built by `<arch>-montauk-gcc`
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(see `toolchain/README.md`). `programs/mk/arch.mk` holds everything
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architecture-specific in the build: the toolchain prefix, FP/SIMD flag sets
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(`ARCH_FP_FLAGS` for GUI apps, `ARCH_NOFP_FLAGS` for system programs) and the
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output layout. x86_64 keeps `bin/`, `obj/` and libraries next to their
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sources; other architectures build beside them into `bin-<arch>/`,
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`obj-<arch>/` and `lib/<name>/build-<arch>/`, so both can be built from one
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tree. The few architecture-specific sources are the raw system-call
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wrappers (`#if defined(__x86_64__)` / `__aarch64__` blocks in
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`montauk/syscall.h`, `libc/montauk.h`, `lib/libc/libc.c` and
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`lib/libc/crt/crt1.c`), `lib/libc/arch/setjmp-<arch>.S` and the scanout
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store fence in `gui/framebuffer.hpp`.
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Not built for AArch64: tcc (it generates x86 code), the on-OS SDK and the
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Rust programs (their `x86_64-unknown-montauk` target).
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## Adding another architecture
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1. Create `kernel/src/Arch/<arch>/` with the six inline headers listed above
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and stubs for the out-of-line functions (copy `aarch64/` as a template).
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2. Add the target to `Arch/Arch.hpp` and to the `#if` chains at the end of
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the dispatching interface headers.
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3. Add `KernelStartSymbol` / `KernelEndSymbol` to `kernel/linker-<arch>.ld`,
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and the `ld.lld` emulation to `LD_EMULATION_<arch>` in `kernel/GNUmakefile`.
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4. Teach `Boot/Protocols/LimineProtocol.cpp` the architecture's MP fields.
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5. Run `./scripts/check-arch-neutral.sh <arch>` until it passes.
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