Thu Sep 22 00:12:42 BST 2022 Making quite reasonable progress, though only running under emulation. Since almost everything so far has been a recap of nixwrt, that's to be expected. The example config starts some services at boot, or at least attempts to. Next we shoud - add some network config to run-qemu - implement udhcp and odhcp properly to write outputs and create resolv.conf and all that - write some kind of test so we can refactor the crap - not let the tests write random junk everywhere Thu Sep 22 12:46:36 BST 2022 We can store outputs in the s6 scan directory, it seems: > There is, however, a guarantee that s6-supervise will never touch subdirectories named data or env. So if you need to store user information in the service directory with the guarantee that it will never be mistaken for a configuration file, no matter the version of s6, you should store that information in the data or env subdirectories of the service directory. https://skarnet.org/software/s6/servicedir.html > process 'store/pj0b27l5728cypa5mmagz0q8ibzpik0h-execline-mips-unknown-linux-musl-2.9.0.1-bin/bin/execlineb' started with executable stack https://skarnet.org/lists/skaware/1550.html Thu Sep 22 16:14:49 BST 2022 what network peers do we want to model for testing? - wan: pppoe - wan: ip over ethernet, w/ dhcp service provided - wan: l2tp over (ip over ethernet, w/ dhcp service provided) - lan: something with a dhcp client https://accel-ppp.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ could use this for testing pppoe and l2tp? Thu Sep 22 22:57:47 BST 2022 To build a nixos vm with accel-ppp installed (not yet configured) nix-build '' -A vm -I nixos-config=./tests/ppp-server-configuration.nix -o ppp-server QEMU_OPTS="-display none -serial mon:stdio -nographic" ./ppp-server/bin/run-nixos-vm To test it's configured I thought I'd run it against an OpenWrt qemu install, so, fun with qemu networking ensues. This config in ../openwrt-qemu is using two multicast socket networks - nix-shell -p qemu --run "./run.sh ./openwrt-22.03.0-x86-64-generic-kernel.bin openwrt-22.03.0-x86-64-generic-ext4-rootfs.img " so hopefully we can spin up other VMs connected either to its lan or its wan: *however* we do first need to configure its wan to use pppoe uci set network.wan=interface uci set network.wan.device='eth1' uci set network.wan.proto='pppoe' uci set network.wan.username='db123@a.1' uci set network.wan.password='NotReallyTheSecret' (it's ext4 so this will probably stick) Fri Sep 23 10:27:22 BST 2022 * mcast=230.0.0.1:1234 : access (interconnect between router and isp) * mcast=230.0.0.1:1235 : lan * mcast=230.0.0.1:1236 : world (the internet) Sun Sep 25 20:56:28 BST 2022 TODO - bugs, missing bits, other infelicities as they occur to me: DONE 1) shutdown doesn't work as its using the busybox one not s6. 2) perhaps we shouldn't have process-based services like dhcp, ppp implement "address provider interface" - instead have a separate service for interface address that depends on the service and uses its output * ppp is not like dhcp because dhcp finds addresses for an existing interface but ppp makes a new one 3) when I killed ppp it restarted, but I don't think it reran defaultroute which is supposed to depend on it. (Might be important e.g. if we'd been assigned a different IP address). Investigate semantics of s6-rc service dependencies DONE 4) make the pppoe test run unattended 5) write a test for udhcp 6) squashfs size is ~ 14MB for a configuration with not much in it, look for obvious wastes of space 7) some of the pppoe config should be moved into a ppp service 8) some of configuration.nix (e.g. defining routes) should be moved into tools DONE 9) split tools up instead of having it all one file 10) is it OK to depend on squashfs pseudofiles if we might want to switch to ubifs? will there always be a squashfs underneath? might we want to change the pseudofiles in an overlay? 11) haven't done (overlayfs) overlays at all 12) overlay.nix needs splitting up 13) upgrade ppp to something with an ipv6-up-script option 14) add ipv6 support generally 15) "ip address add" seems to magically recognise v4 vs v6 but is that specified or fluke? 16) tighten up the module specs. (DONE) services.foo should be a s6-rc service, (DONE) kernel config should be checked in some way DONE 17) rename nixwrt references in kernel builder 18) maybe stop suffixing all the service names with .service 19) syslogd - use busybox or s6? chat -s -S ogin:--ogin: root / "ip address show dev ppp0 | grep ppp0" 192.168.100.1 "/nix/store/*-s6-linux-init-*/bin/s6-linux-init-hpr -p" Working towards a general goal of having a derivation we can usefully run `nix path-info` on - or some other tool that will tell us what's making the images big. The squashfs doesn't have this information. Towards that end (really? can't remember how ...) what would be a way for packages to declare "I want to add files to /etc"? Is that even a good idea? Thinking we should turn s6-init-files back into a real derivation. Tue Sep 27 00:31:45 BST 2022 > Thinking we should turn s6-init-files back into a real derivation. This turns out to be Not That Simple, because it contains weird shit (sticky bits and fifos). Tue Sep 27 09:50:44 BST 2022 * allow modules to register activation scripts that are run on the root filesystem once all packages are installed - do they run on build or on host? if we're upgrading in place how do we ship filesystem changes to the host? or: * allow modules to declare environment.*, use pseudofile on build and create real files on host. will need to keep the implementation on host faily simple because restricted environment Tue Sep 27 16:14:18 BST 2022 TODO list is getting both longer and shorter, though longer on average. 2) perhaps we shouldn't use process-based services like [ou]dhcp as queryable endpoint for interface addresses (e.g. when adding routes). Instead have a separate service for interface address that depends on the *dhcp and uses its output 3) when I killed ppp it restarted, but I don't think it reran defaultroute which is supposed to depend on it. (Might be important e.g. if we'd been assigned a different IP address). Investigate semantics of s6-rc service dependencies 4) figure out a nice way to fit ppp into this model as it actually creates the interface instead of using an existing unconfigured one 5) write a test for udhcp 7) some of the pppoe config should be moved into a ppp service 11) haven't done (overlayfs) overlays at all 13) upgrade ppp to something with an ipv6-up-script option, move ppp and pppoe derivations into their own files 14) add ipv6 support generally 15) "ip address add" seems to magically recognise v4 vs v6 but is that specified or fluke? 19) ship logs somehow to log collection system 21) dhcp, dns, hostap service for lan 22) support real hardware Tue Sep 27 22:00:36 BST 2022 Found the cause of huge image size: rp-pppoe ships with scripts that reference build-time packages, so we have x86-64 glibc in there We don't need syslog just to accommodate ppp, there's an underdocumented option for it to log to a file descriptor Wed Sep 28 16:04:02 BST 2022 Based on https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/431953 if we can forge ethernet packets we might be able to write tests for e.g. "is the vm running a dhcp server" Wed Sep 28 21:29:05 BST 2022 We can use Python "scapy" to generate dhcp request packets, and Python 'socket' model to send them encapsulated in UDP. Win It's extremely janky python Thu Sep 29 15:24:37 BST 2022 Two points to ponder 1) where service config depends on outputs of other services, we do that rather ugly "$(cat ${output ....})" construct. Can we improve on that? Maybe we could have some kind of tooling to read them as environment variables ... 2) we have given no consideration yet to secrets. we want the secrets to be not in the store; we want some way of refreshing them when they change Sat Oct 1 14:24:21 BST 2022 The MAC80211_HWSIM kernel config creates virtual wlan[01] devices which hostapd will work with, and a hwsim0 which we can use to monitor (though not inject) trafic. Could we use this for wifi tests? How do we make the guest hwsim0 visible to the host? Sat Oct 1 18:41:31 BST 2022 virtual serial ports: I struggled with qemu for ages to get this to work. You also need the unhelpfully named CONFIG_VIRTIO_CONSOLE option in kconfig QEMU_OPTIONS="-nodefaults -chardev socket,path=/tmp/wlan,server=on,wait=off,id=wlan -device virtio-serial-pci -device virtserialport,name=wlan,chardev=wlan" Sun Oct 2 09:34:48 BST 2022 We could implement the secrets store as a service, then the secrets are outputs. Things we can do in qemu 1) make interface address service that depends on dhcp, instead of being set by it directly 2) check out restart behaviour of dependent services when depended-on service dies 3) pppd _creates_ an interface, work out how to fit it into this model 5) add bridge support for lan 8) upgrade ppp to something with an ipv6-up-script option, move ppp and pppoe derivations into their own files 9) get ipv6 address from pppoe 10) get ipv6 delegation from pppoe and add prefix to lan 11) support dhcp6 in dnsmasq, and advertise prefix on lan 12) firewalling and nat - default deny or zero trust? 14) write secrets holder as a service with outputs 20) should we check that references to outputs actually correspond with those provided by a service Things we probably do on hardware 6) writable filesystem (ubifs?) 7) overlay with squashfs/ubifs - useful? think about workflows for how this thing is installed 16) gl-ar750 17) mediatek device - gl-mt300 or whatever I have lying around 18) some kind of arm (banana pi router?) 19) should we give routeros a hardware ethernet and maybe an l2tp upstream, then we could dogfood the hardware devices. we could run an l2tp service at mythic-beasts, got a /48 there https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-fghack.html looks like a handy thing we hope we'll never have to use Sun Oct 2 22:22:17 BST 2022 > make interface address service that depends on dhcp, instead of being set by it directly We can do this for dhcp, but we can't do it for ppp. Running the ppp service creates a ppp[012n] interface and assigns it an ipv4 address and there's not a whole lot we can easily do to unbundle that. So - the ppp service needs to behave as if it were a "link" service - either it *also* needs to behave as an address service, or we could have an address service that subscribes to it and does nothing other than translate output formats Note regarding that second bullet: at the moment the static address service has no outputs anyway! Tue Oct 4 22:43:02 BST 2022 While trying to make the TFTP workflow not awful I seem to have written a TFTP server. Thu Oct 6 19:26:40 BST 2022 We have a booting kernel on gl-ar750, but we aren't at a point that it can find a root filesystem I'd *like* to be able to use the same delivery mechanism (kernel uimage concatenated monolithic Sat Oct 8 11:12:09 BST 2022 We have it booting on hardware, mounting root fs, running getty :-) For NixWRT TFTP boots we used a single image with both kernel and squashfs, and relied on CONFIG_MTD_SPLIT_FIRMWARE to identify where the boundary was and create /dev/mdtn devices at the right offsets so that the kernel could find the squashfs For Liminix we're not going to do that. * CONFIG_MTD_SPLIT_FIRMWARE is only available in OpenWrt patches * it's an uncomfortable level of automagic just to save us doing two TFTPs instea of one * the generated image is anyway not the one we'd write to flash (has unneeded PHRAM support) * it means we need to memmap out enough ram for the whole image inc kernel when really all we need to reserve is the rootfs bit Sat Oct 8 11:23:08 BST 2022 "halt" and "reboot" don't work on gl-ar750 Sat Oct 8 13:10:00 BST 2022 Where do we go with this ar750? - wired networking - wifi Sun Oct 9 09:57:35 BST 2022 We want to be able to package kernel modules as regular derivations, so that they get added to the filesystem This means they need access to kernel.modulesupport This means kernel.modulesupport needs to be in pkgs too? This is fine, probably, but we'd like to avoid closing over vmlinux because there's no need for it to be in the filesystem Mon Oct 10 22:57:23 BST 2022 The problem is that kernel kconfig options are manipulated in the liminix modules, which means that data must be (transitively) available to modules, so they can't be regular packages as they're tied so tightly to the exact config. Unless we define a second overlay that references the configuration object, but my head hurts when I start to think about that so maybe not. Tue Oct 11 00:00:13 BST 2022 Building ag71xx (ethernet driver) as a module doesn't work because it references a symbol ath79_pll_base in the kernel that hasn't been marked with EXPORT_SYMBOL. We could forge an object file that "declares" it with a gross and disgusting hack like this $ echo > empty # not actually "empty", objcopy complains about that $ grep ath79_pll_base /nix/store/jcc114cd13xa8aa4mil35rlnmxnlmv09-vmlinux-mips-unknown-linux-musl-modulesupport/System.map ffffffff807b2094 B ath79_pll_base $ mips-unknown-linux-musl-objcopy -I binary -O elf32-big --add-section .bss=empty --add-symbol ath79_pll_base=.bss:0x807b2094 empty f.o I don't claim this is a good idea, just an idea. Thought was that we would not have to declare its type this way. Also it might not work with kaslr https://stackoverflow.com/a/68903503 Backstory: why are we trying to build this as a module? because the openwrt fork of it seems to be a bit more advanced than the mainline, and I *suspect* that the mainline version doesn't work with our openwrt-based device tree which ahs the mdio as a nested node inside the ag71xx node - in mainline the driver seems to have all the mdio stuff inline. So, could we build the openwrt driver without patching the crap out of our kernel Sun Oct 16 15:25:33 BST 2022 Executive decision: let's use the openwrt kernel (at least for gl-ar750). Mainline kernel doesn’t have devicetree support for this device or the SoC it’s based on, and the OpenWrt dts for it doesn’t have the same "compatible"s, which makes me think that an indefinite amount of patching will be necessary to make dts/modules for one of them work with a kernel for the other As a result: now we have eth0 appearing, but not eth1? Guessing we need to add some kconfig for the switch Mon Oct 17 21:23:37 BST 2022 we are spending ridiculous amounts of cpu/io time copying kernel source trees from place to place, because we have kernel tree preparation and actual building as two separate derivations. I think the answer is to have a generic kernel build derivation in the overlay, and then have the device overlays override it with an additional phase to do openwrt patching or whatever else they need to do. Tue Oct 18 23:02:43 BST 2022 * previous TODO list is Aug 02, need to review * dts is hardcoded to gl-ar750, that needs cleaning up * figure out persistent addresses for ethernet * fix halt/reboot * "link" services have a "device" attribute, would much rather have everything referenced using outputs than having two different mechanisms for reading similar things * Kconfig.local do we still need it? * check all config instead of differentiating config/checkedConfig Sun Feb 5 18:14:02 GMT 2023 We have resumed. commit eb4efab6a215bf03cf5aab10d4ac909e83e9c148 Author: Daniel Barlow Date: Sat Jan 28 23:18:28 2023 +0000 * find out what works * add that stuff to hydra * fix the rest * add that stuff to hydra * convert to flake * check if routeros can be run interactively * some per-device docs in a form that can be transcluded for website ci builds * each of the tests has hardcoded device/config/etc * build an "empty" configuration for each target device * build an unstable configuration for qemu Wed Feb 8 16:52:22 GMT 2023 We have hydra builds for all the previously-working devices, though we don't yet know if any of those builds actually boots or does anything useful. [DONE] Would be nice to clean up the run-qemu and connect-qemu scripts and put them in the buildEnv Some thought needed about how to hook up the gl-ar750 to the internets, ideally in a way that mirrors typical real uses. AAISP have an L2TP service, but I would prefer to use pppoe on the device, so how to translate one to t'other on an intermediary/gateway machine? https://www.rfc-archive.org/getrfc.php?rfc=3817#gsc.tab=0 exists as an RFC but I can't find anything that actually implements it Actual Documentation (e.g. user and developer manuals) should live in the liminix repo so it corresponds with the code, and can be rsynced from there to the web site, maybe with a deploy hook or something. Haven't decided what a good doc format is yet If we create a flake for Hydra to run on, that _more or less_ means we don't have any manual hydra jobset configuration to document. There are still some tests that need adding to CI [DONE] Should the per-device config be a module not an overlay? Given that half of what's in it is kernel config (a module could set this) and the rest is source tarball download specs (needs nixpkgs, a module has this and could set it too) I wonder why it isn't already [ALREADY DOES] Can we make Hydra report output sizes so we can plot closure size trends and see if it all goes awful? Thu Feb 9 08:14:39 GMT 2023 For better developer experience, I am thinking that either (1) swap tasks 2 and 3 (writable filesystem before module system) or (2) add NBD support so I can iterate on a real device without full rebuilds every time Fri Feb 10 06:18:25 PM GMT 2023 did the overlay->module thing [DONE] Need to fix all the configuration around PHRAM, I can't see how it would ever work Sat Feb 11 14:37:45 GMT 2023 Consolidated TODO * figure out persistent addresses for ethernet (?) [SEEMS DONE] * fix halt/reboot [DONE, NO] * Kconfig.local do we still need it? [DONE] * check all config instead of differentiating config/checkedConfig Things we can do in qemu * "link" services have a "device" attribute, would much rather have everything referenced using outputs than having two different mechanisms for reading similar things 1) make interface address service that depends on dhcp, instead of being set by it directly 2) check out restart behaviour of dependent services when depended-on service dies 3) pppd _creates_ an interface, work out how to fit it into this model 5) add bridge support for lan 8) upgrade ppp to something with an ipv6-up-script option, move ppp and pppoe derivations into their own files 9) get ipv6 address from pppoe 10) get ipv6 delegation from pppoe and add prefix to lan 11) support dhcp6 in dnsmasq, and advertise prefix on lan 12) firewalling and nat - default deny or zero trust? 14) write secrets holder as a service with outputs 20) should we check that references to outputs actually correspond with those provided by a service * Actual Documentation (e.g. user and developer manuals) * make a flake * There are still some tests that need adding to CI Things we probably do on hardware [DONE] * dts is hardcoded to gl-ar750, that needs cleaning up 6) writable filesystem (ubifs?) 7) overlay with squashfs/ubifs - useful? think about workflows for how this thing is installed 16) gl-ar750 [DONE] * decide how to hook up the gl-ar750 to the internets 17) mediatek device - gl-mt300 or whatever I have lying around 18) some kind of arm (banana pi router?) [DONE DIFERENTLY] 19) should we give routeros a hardware ethernet and maybe an l2tp upstream, then we could dogfood the hardware devices. we could run an l2tp service at mythic-beasts, got a /48 there Sat Feb 11 15:57:31 GMT 2023 The reason we would like to run PPPoE instead of L2TP on the "rotuer" device is - closer to real world scenario - means no need to run dhcp client on the wan interface before we even get to start the l2tpd Sun Feb 12 14:57:28 GMT 2023 https://github.com/katalix/go-l2tp#kpppoed Mon Feb 13 04:44:09 PM GMT 2023 if the gl-ar750 is connected to an ethernet card that linux is ignoring, we're going to have to set up _some_ qemu thing just to run tftp from. Tue Feb 14 17:59:34 GMT 2023 We should do a derivation that creates an ISO image and a qemu shell script based on a configuration.nix, and put it in buildEnv. We'll call it "borderNetVm" : > A broadband remote access server (BRAS, B-RAS or BBRAS) routes traffic to and from broadband remote access devices such as digital subscriber line access multiplexers (DSLAM) on an Internet service provider's (ISP) network.[1][2] BRAS can also be referred to as a broadband network gateway or border network gateway (BNG).[3] (for consistency we should rename the "access" qemu socket network to match whatever we call this) rm border.qcow2 ; nix-shell --argstr liminix `pwd` --argstr nixpkgs `pwd`/../nixpkgs --argstr unstable `pwd`/../unstable-nixpkgs/ ci.nix -A buildEnv --run "run-border-vm" Wed Feb 15 22:56:59 GMT 2023 configuration for border vm needs to come from somewhere so it's good for more people than just me - pci device for setting up the ethernet - lns address - uid so it can do 9p shares? do we need to map things here? also need to document the host-side bits so that people can set up their spare ethernet as vfio next step for hacking is to figure out what I was doing with pppoe Wed Feb 15 22:59:56 GMT 2023 docs ... * introduction * user guide ** how to build it ** how to flash it on your device ** what to put in configuration.nix ** modules * developer guide ** building/running with qemu *** emulated upstream ** building/running on hardware *** run in place with TFTP *** emulated upstream ** CI ** Roadmap ** Contributing nix-shell -p sphinx --run "make -C doc html" https://francis.begyn.be/blog/nixos-home-router contains information about avahi reflector Fri Feb 17 00:09:34 GMT 2023 29 11.282085831 81.187.76.242 → 8.8.8.8 ICMP 106 Echo (ping) request id=0x0187, seq=2/512, 4 30 11.286314642 90.155.53.19 → 81.187.76.242 ICMP 78 Destination unreachable (Communication admin) We're getting packets over the pppoe-l2tp relay thing. Just have to work out now why we're not routing Fri Feb 17 16:54:41 GMT 2023 Haha. We weren't routing because we'd used the wrong CHAP password Fri Feb 17 16:58:27 GMT 2023 This TODO is for nlnet task 1 and for bits of subsequent tasks that are annoying enough that I might poke at them anyway: 1) gl-ar750, why do we get "ag71xx 19000000.eth: invalid MAC address, using random address" 2) gl-ar750, wifi 3) document services so I can remember how they work. Refer back to Oct 18 for notes that no longer make sense 4) check out restart behaviour of dependent services when depended-on service dies 5) pppd _creates_ an interface, work out how to fit it into this model 6) add bridge support for lan 7) upgrade ppp to something with an ipv6-up-script option, move ppp and pppoe derivations into their own files 8) get ipv6 address from pppoe 9) get ipv6 delegation from pppoe and add prefix to lan 10) support dhcp6 in dnsmasq, and advertise prefix on lan 11) firewalling and nat - default deny or zero trust? 13) should we check that references to outputs actually correspond with 14) make a flake? 15) see if there are other tests that need adding to CI 15a) is bordervm derivation tested? 18) gl-mt300a 19) gl-mt300n-v2 20) publish the manual using CI 12) write secrets holder as a service with outputs 16) writable filesystem (ubifs?) 17) overlay with squashfs/ubifs - useful? think about workflows for how this thing is installed I could plug tninkpad into the gl-ar750 LAN port to dogfood the wired networking Sat Feb 18 14:26:45 GMT 2023 Apparently we're not currently doing anything special with busybox, just using the default nixos build with the default applets. We'd like to be able to say in modules which applets they need, so that we build all necessary applets but don't waste any space. But we don't want to build a busybox for each module because that would be a big waste of space. One option: - add busybox configuration to `config` so that modules can maul it - add a busybox module that builds it with union of all config and adds link in /bin - make everything else look in /bin instead of referencing pkgs.busybox It would be good if services could assert somehow that their required config is present Sat Feb 18 23:45:13 GMT 2023 # lsmod cd /lib/modules/mac80211 insmod ./compat/compat.ko insmod ./net/wireless/cfg80211.ko insmod ./net/mac80211/mac80211.ko insmod ./drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath.ko insmod ./drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_hw.ko insmod ./drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k_common.ko insmod ./drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/ath9k.ko insmod ./drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/ath10k_core.ko insmod ./drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/ath10k_pci.ko [21.344930] ath9k 18100000.wmac: failed to load calibration data from mtd device [21.352728] ath: phy0: parsing configuration from OF node [21.362576] ath: phy0: serialize_regmode is 0 [21.367092] ath: phy0: UNDEFINED -> AWAKE [21.372051] ath: phy0: Trying EEPROM access at Address 0x03ff [21.377999] ath: phy0: Trying EEPROM access at Address 0x0fff [21.383940] ath: phy0: Trying EEPROM access at Address 0x01ff [21.389879] ath: phy0: Trying OTP access at Address 0x03ff [21.400396] Data bus error, epc == 8027964c, ra == 83125880 [21.406156] Oops[#1]: Sun Feb 19 18:15:27 GMT 2023 We have ath9k listening for packets. To make this ready to use: - need to load the modules - enable bridging lan with wlan - packet forwarding - firewall Mon Feb 20 20:41:17 GMT 2023 need to fix all the other broken ci jobs :-( The wlan test is failing because we moved mac80211 to a module and there's nothing running to insmod it Wed Feb 22 18:17:17 GMT 2023 bridge is e2b3738d0f8c3f2fd76ebcef65612de502a7b121 but it's the wrong way around: the master interface needs to be up whether or not all of its children are, so members depend on master not vice versa Next steps: - re-implement bridge, enable bridging lan with wlan - packet forwarding - firewall - ath10k - ipv6 Fri Feb 24 23:37:56 GMT 2023 bridging wlan was made complex because can't add a device to a bridge until it's operational, and wlan0 is not operational until hostapd has churned awhile. Therefore, "waitup" listens for netlink messages and notifies s6 readiness stuff we have a firewall nft script but we're not running it on boot we have forwarding but no dns, maybe because we haven't told dnsmasq about any upstream servers Sun Feb 26 21:08:47 GMT 2023 to add firmware we need to put files in /lib/firmware, which means a module i guess we should do that in the device module we can create the firmware files as packages for the cal data we would like to get it from the device MTD "art" partition at boot time. f ====from openwrt case "$FIRMWARE" in "ath10k/cal-pci-0000:00:00.0.bin") case $board in allnet,all-wap02860ac|\ araknis,an-500-ap-i-ac|\ araknis,an-700-ap-i-ac|\ engenius,eap1200h|\ engenius,enstationac-v1|\ glinet,gl-x750|\ watchguard,ap300) caldata_extract "art" 0x5000 0x844 ath10k_patch_mac $(macaddr_add $(mtd_get_mac_binary art 0x0) 2) caldata_extract part offset count caldata_dd $mtd /lib/firmware/$FIRMWARE $count $offset || \ caldata_die "failed to extract calibration data from $mtd" dd if=$source of=$target iflag=skip_bytes,fullblock bs=$count skip=$offset count=1 2>/dev/null ======= part=$(basename $(dirname $(grep -l art /sys/class/mtd/*/name))) dd if=/dev/$part \ of=/run/cal-pci-0000:00:00.0.bin iflag=skip_bytes,fullblock \ bs=0x844 skip=0x5000 count=1 Mon Feb 27 22:46:37 GMT 2023 Found and fixed a bunchg of things that were stopping ath10k from working. The remaining problem is (I think) that insmod is not synchronous, so "ip link set up dev wlan1" doesn't work immediately after the module is inserted. Maybe we need another netlink thing to wait until the interface is present. Wed Mar 1 18:26:44 GMT 2023 ath10k works, but the wlan module loading stuff is quite kludgey I wonder if wlan0, wlan1, eth0, eth1 etc should be defined per-device - how does the aplication config know which devices exist? If we decide to switch to some form of persistent device naming, the names will differ from one device to the next. Perhaps the device should also provide standard names where possible? services.network.links = { lan = interface { ... }; wan = interface { ... }; wlan_24 = interface { ... }; wlan_5 = interface { ... }; } Thu Mar 2 22:45:11 GMT 2023 We have a flashable image! Now we can use the gl-ar750 for internet access in the shed, we can apppropriate the other device that's in there and try Liminix on it Fri Mar 3 23:08:58 GMT 2023 If we're going to unplug serial console from the gl-ar750 maybe we should install an ssh server first. 0) set a root password 1) allow setting a root password from configuration.nix (means defining config.users properly) 2) allow authorizedKeys per user 3) dropbear service 4) see if the wired lan works! :-) Sat Mar 4 12:31:07 GMT 2023 To improve logging, each service should have its own s6-log service which prefixes the service name onto the log line and then sends to stdout https://skarnet.org/software/s6/servicedir.html https://skarnet.org/software/s6/s6-log.html As far as I can tell, the `log` directory inside the service directory should itself be a service directory for the s6-log process that does this .... hahaha no that doesn't work s6-rc, for some reason, ignores the `log` directory and requires that loggers be done with consumer-for and producer-for instead Sat Mar 4 23:27:00 GMT 2023 notes for this week's news update * ath10k kernel support and and firmware - 5GHz wifi works - need to retrieve the firmware from a special - partition on the device itself, so we do that using a service that - the wlan interface depends on * replace waitup with more generally useful ifwait to make the ath10k load at boot, we need to insert the module and then wait for it to do something or other in the background before we can configure the interface. so we need something like waitup but for presence not operational state it turns out that a program that just waits for a particular interface state and then exits is quite simple to add into run scripts and we don't need all that notification-fd stuff anyway * move FW_LOADER* config to modules/base * rejig config a bit. - device hardware characteristics are now under the `hardware` key and include the available network interfaces. - options for users and groups are now defined a bit more specifically than "attrset", making it possible to e.g. set a root password - dts is moved from `boot` to `hardware` * now producing flashable images, so you can generate a liminix config and write it to the device instead of having to boot using TFTP and a serial console every time * ssh support * prefix logs with the service name Sun Mar 5 22:51:21 GMT 2023 Added swconfig: it was a straight copy from nixwrt and hasn't changed upstream since. But don't need it, because the lan port works fine without it (I assume both lan ports and the cpu are all connected untagged) Mon Mar 6 09:42:33 GMT 2023 echo 17 >/sys/class/gpio/export echo out >/sys/class/gpio/gpio17/direction why are our images getting big - lua links ncurses - hostapd links openssl and sqlite - nftables needs - iptables? - jansson? what is that? - libedit/readline - ifwait needs bash File: result/squashfs Size: 10371072 Blocks: 20256 IO Block: 4096 regular file with smaller nftables: 9617408 Blocks: 18784 hostapd wqithout sqlite 9003008 Blocks: 17584 without bash: 8622080 Blocks: 16840 IO Block: 4096 regular file without lua readline: bigger?! 8769536 Blocks: 17128 IO Block: 4096 regular file Mon Mar 6 20:57:49 GMT 2023 [ 0.539992] mtk_soc_eth 10100000.ethernet: mdio-bus disabled [ 10.493918] platform regulatory.0: Direct firmware load for regulatory.db fail ed with error -2 [ 10.502828] cfg80211: failed to load regulatory.db Check in morning, but whichever port the ethernet cable is plugged into, is considered by the kernel as port 0 - which I think we should treat as WAN VLAN 1: vid: 1 ports: 1 2 3 4 5 6t VLAN 2: vid: 2 ports: 0 6t ip link add link eth0 name lan type vlan id 1 ip link add link eth0 name wan type vlan id 2 figure out how to add these to gl-mt300a device config then extedner.nix can add a bridge