From 4f540af34d7a88547d60bed7bd28850e6d0e18ab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: hachem <im@hachem.wtf>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2026 04:08:33 +0200
Subject: feat: BAREEE METTALLLLLL REVOOOOO

---
 boot/boot.zig   | 19 ++++++++++++++++++-
 boot/heap.zig   |  4 ++--
 boot/idt.zig    |  7 +++++++
 boot/limine.zig | 14 ++++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'boot')

diff --git a/boot/boot.zig b/boot/boot.zig
index 933065c..1f50d83 100644
--- a/boot/boot.zig
+++ b/boot/boot.zig
@@ -6,21 +6,32 @@ const gdt = @import("gdt.zig");
 const idt = @import("idt.zig");
 const pmm = @import("pmm.zig");
 const heap = @import("heap.zig");
+const bridge = @import("bridge");
 
 // We need a panic handler otherwise zig won't be happy,
 // std usually formats a message through std.Io.Writer which
 // emits SSE instructions which I haven't enabled. Ours
 // dumps the message to serial, then halts.
 pub const panic = std.debug.FullPanic(struct {
-    fn halt(msg: []const u8, _: ?usize) noreturn {
+    fn halt(msg: []const u8, ret_addr: ?usize) noreturn {
         serial.init();
         serial.write("\r\n!!! uhhhh engine kaput : ");
         serial.write(msg);
+        if (ret_addr) |ra| {
+            serial.write("\r\n  at ");
+            serial.writeHex(ra);
+        }
         serial.write("\r\n");
         while (true) asm volatile ("hlt");
     }
 }.halt);
 
+// std.debug.print (revo hits it on a few error paths) defaults to a threaded
+// stderr IO that doesn't exist on freestanding and won't even compile. This
+// just points it to the custom one we wrote in bridge tthat uses the serial
+// console and shit
+pub const std_options_debug_io: std.Io = bridge.debug_io;
+
 // Check `linker.ld`
 export var base_revision: limine.BaseRevision linksection(".limine_requests") = limine.BaseRevision.init(3);
 export var requests_start: limine.RequestsStartMarker linksection(".limine_requests_start") = .{};
@@ -31,6 +42,9 @@ export var requests_end: limine.RequestsEndMarker linksection(".limine_requests_
 export var hhdm_request: limine.HhdmRequest linksection(".limine_requests") = .{};
 export var memmap_request: limine.MemoryMapRequest linksection(".limine_requests") = .{};
 
+// 4 MiB stack
+export var stack_size_request: limine.StackSizeRequest linksection(".limine_requests") = .{ .stack_size = 4 * 1024 * 1024 };
+
 // ENTRY(_start)
 export fn _start() callconv(.c) noreturn {
     serial.init();
@@ -70,6 +84,9 @@ export fn _start() callconv(.c) noreturn {
     pmm.free(b);
     pmm.free(c);
 
+    // hand the kernel heap to revo and we're gucci
+    bridge.run(heap.allocator(), serial.write);
+
     if (framebuffer.get()) |screen| {
         // XOR texture
         var y: usize = 0;
diff --git a/boot/heap.zig b/boot/heap.zig
index 2f4e74b..3fd9f8c 100644
--- a/boot/heap.zig
+++ b/boot/heap.zig
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ const std = @import("std");
 const pmm = @import("pmm.zig");
 const serial = @import("serial.zig");
 
-// 4 MiB. 
+// 32 MiB.
 // NOTE: bump if the VM needs more
-const HEAP_PAGES: usize = 1024;
+const HEAP_PAGES: usize = 8192;
 
 var fba: std.heap.FixedBufferAllocator = undefined;
 
diff --git a/boot/idt.zig b/boot/idt.zig
index adff4b3..127fd8e 100644
--- a/boot/idt.zig
+++ b/boot/idt.zig
@@ -140,6 +140,13 @@ export fn exceptionHandler(frame: *Frame) callconv(.c) noreturn {
     serial.write(" cs="); writeHex(frame.cs);
     serial.write("\r\n  rflags="); writeHex(frame.rflags);
     serial.write(" rsp="); writeHex(frame.rsp);
+    // page faults stash the offending address in CR2
+    if (frame.vector == 14) {
+        const cr2 = asm volatile ("mov %%cr2, %[out]"
+            : [out] "=r" (-> u64),
+        );
+        serial.write("\r\n  cr2="); writeHex(cr2);
+    }
     serial.write("\r\n");
     while (true) asm volatile ("hlt");
 }
diff --git a/boot/limine.zig b/boot/limine.zig
index 914aca8..f1ed158 100644
--- a/boot/limine.zig
+++ b/boot/limine.zig
@@ -66,6 +66,20 @@ pub const FramebufferRequest = extern struct {
     response: ?*FramebufferResponse = null,
 };
 
+// ask limine for a bigger bootstrap stack than its ~64 KiB default cause
+// revo's VM init builds a large struct on the stack and runs a fat recursive
+// descent parser to register its stdlib, which page faults the machine
+pub const StackSizeResponse = extern struct {
+    revision: u64,
+};
+
+pub const StackSizeRequest = extern struct {
+    id: [4]u64 = requestId(0x224ef0460a8e8926, 0xe1cb0fc25f46ea3d),
+    revision: u64 = 0,
+    response: ?*StackSizeResponse = null,
+    stack_size: u64,
+};
+
 // HHDM = higher-half direct map, limine linearly maps ALL of physical memory
 // starting at `offset`, so any physical address p is reachable at p + offset
 // This is how we touch physical frames without setting up our own page tables
-- 
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