From 045c9ddf71b62dff538cd3ae1963166ab5c145a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: salmonik <salmonik@tuta.io>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2026 01:52:10 +0200
Subject: v0.5.5: visible boot progress + panic-on-screen for real hardware
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Real hardware has no serial console: a pre-shell panic was a silent
blank screen (the panic handler only wrote to serial, then cli;hlt).
v0.5.4's shadow change made this window reachable — if the fb-aware
page allocation or the heap fallback failed on hardware, the kernel
halted before the shell banner with zero screen output.

- gop::boot_marker(): every boot stage now draws straight to the
  framebuffer (row 0, white-on-black).  The last marker visible before
  a hang identifies where the kernel died.
- Panic handler: pre-shell panics now draw a white-on-red
  '*** PANIC *** <msg> at file:line' band via gop::dump_lines.
- init_shadow(): heap fallback is panic-proof (try_reserve_exact +
  resize instead of vec![0; words] which aborts on OOM); page-alloc
  result defensively re-checked against the fb region; any failure
  degrades to no-shadow mode with a visible warning band.
- Verified: full chain (rsboot -> kernel) boots with markers, shell
  banner renders, all 5 test suites pass.
---
 rsdos/src/main.rs | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+)

(limited to 'rsdos/src/main.rs')

diff --git a/rsdos/src/main.rs b/rsdos/src/main.rs
index 3153930..b6393ee 100644
--- a/rsdos/src/main.rs
+++ b/rsdos/src/main.rs
@@ -45,6 +45,31 @@ fn panic(info: &PanicInfo) -> ! {
             loc.line()
         );
     }
+    // Real hardware has no serial console — put the panic on the screen
+    // too (white-on-red band), so a pre-shell panic is not a silent
+    // blank screen.
+    let mut loc_buf = [0u8; 96];
+    let mut msg_buf = [0u8; 128];
+    let loc_n = {
+        let mut w = rsnix::strbuf::FmtBuf::new(&mut loc_buf);
+        if let Some(loc) = info.location() {
+            let _ = write!(&mut w, "at {}:{}", loc.file(), loc.line());
+        } else {
+            let _ = write!(&mut w, "(no location)");
+        }
+        w.len()
+    };
+    let msg_n = {
+        let mut w = rsnix::strbuf::FmtBuf::new(&mut msg_buf);
+        let _ = write!(&mut w, "{}", info.message());
+        w.len()
+    };
+    let lines = [
+        "*** PANIC ***",
+        core::str::from_utf8(&msg_buf[..msg_n]).unwrap_or("?"),
+        core::str::from_utf8(&loc_buf[..loc_n]).unwrap_or("?"),
+    ];
+    rsnix::gop::dump_lines(&lines);
     loop {
         unsafe {
             core::arch::asm!("cli; hlt");
@@ -121,9 +146,11 @@ pub unsafe extern "efiapi" fn efi_main(image_handle: Handle, system_table: *mut
     } else {
         rsnix::serial_println!("gop: not found (0x{:x})", gop_result);
     }
+    rsnix::gop::boot_marker("rsnix v0.5.5 booting..");
     rsnix::vt::init();
     let (rows, cols) = rsnix::vt::size();
     rsnix::serial_println!("vt: terminal ready ({}x{})", rows, cols);
+    rsnix::gop::boot_marker("rsnix: gop+vt ok");
 
     // ExitBootServices — we now own the machine
     if unsafe { (bs.exit_boot_services)(image_handle, map_key) } != EFI_SUCCESS {
@@ -158,6 +185,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "efiapi" fn efi_main(image_handle: Handle, system_table: *mut
     }
     rsnix::interrupts::init();
     rsnix::serial_println!("intr: IDT loaded, PIC remapped, timer ~100 Hz");
+    rsnix::gop::boot_marker("rsnix: serial+ps2+gdt+intr ok");
 
     dump_memory_summary();
 
@@ -173,6 +201,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "efiapi" fn efi_main(image_handle: Handle, system_table: *mut
         rsnix::serial_println!("pages: init FAILED");
     }
     rsnix::gop::init_shadow();
+    rsnix::gop::boot_marker("rsnix: shadow ok");
     if rsnix::memory::page_self_test() {
         rsnix::serial_println!("pages: self-test OK (alloc/free/runs)");
     } else {
@@ -228,6 +257,7 @@ pub unsafe extern "efiapi" fn efi_main(image_handle: Handle, system_table: *mut
     }
 
     rsnix::serial_println!("boot: entering shell");
+    rsnix::gop::boot_marker("rsnix: boot done — shell");
     if rsnix::ps2::mouse_present() {
         rsnix::cursor::spawn();
     } else {
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