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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion kernel/package-scanout.py
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ def info(field):
raise ValueError('unexpected vermagic')
kernel_id, module_id = build_id(kernel_build / 'vmlinux'), build_id(module)
profile = '\n'.join(['ZAPAROO-SCANOUT-PROFILE-1', release, kernel_id,
module_id, digest(module), revision, 'zaparoo-scanout-v1-1080p', ''])
module_id, digest(module), revision, 'zaparoo-scanout-v2-native', ''])
provenance = {
'schema': 1, 'kernel_revision': revision,
'kernel_build_id': kernel_id, 'module_build_id': module_id,
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33 changes: 24 additions & 9 deletions kernel/scanout-slots/README.md
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -3,9 +3,9 @@
This GPL-3.0-or-later component derives from Nigel Breslaw's MagiK scanout-slot
module and the Zaparoo demo's 1080p extension. Keep its source and attribution
with this Menu fork. It is a separate kernel artifact, not linked into the
frontend. Source imports retain their original license; the Linux module
loader's license classification is separate and must not be changed to gain
access to GPL-only kernel exports.
frontend. The module declares `MODULE_LICENSE("GPL")`: the native vertical-sync
wait maps and requests an interrupt, and the kernel exports those helpers to
GPL modules only.

## Compatibility policy

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -101,22 +101,37 @@ with Rust 1.95.0 installed and a separate `BUILD_ROOT`. That retains the older
profile. Never suppress modpost errors or substitute `modules_prepare` for the
full build that creates genuine symbol exports.

ABI v1 uses `/dev/zaparoo-scanout`, ioctl `_IOR('Z', 1, layout)` and a 64-byte
ABI v2 uses `/dev/zaparoo-scanout`, ioctl `_IOR('Z', 1, layout)` and a 64-byte
layout. Slots start at `0x23000000` and `0x23400000`, outside the complete
`MiSTer_fb` DT aperture (`0x22000000`, 8 MiB). Each has 4,147,200 usable bytes
and a 4,149,248-byte mapping. Slot-one mmap selector is 8,294,400, **not its
physical address**. Only exact shared read/write mappings are accepted;
executable mappings and fork inheritance are disabled.

v2 adds Menu's native video window (`0x3A000000`, 3 MiB, the DDR contract in
`rtl/native_video_reader.sv`) as two more exact-length mappings whose selectors
and sizes the layout reports: the 4 KiB control page, uncached, and the
3,137,536 bytes of frame slots after it, write-combined. The control words stay
uncached so a publish can never wait in a write-combining buffer behind the
pixels it announces. The window is reserved by its first mapping, not at open,
so an HDMI-only client never claims it.

`_IOR('Z', 2, __u32)` blocks until the native raster's next vertical sync and
returns a running count, or fails with `ETIMEDOUT` after 50 ms. The source is
`sys_top`'s `video_sync` pulse on `f2h_irq[1]` (GIC SPI 41), beside the HDMI
interrupt `MiSTer_fb` owns on SPI 40. The stock device tree has no node for it,
so the module maps it on `MiSTer_fb`'s interrupt controller itself. The
interrupt is requested by the first wait and freed with the last file
reference; idle residency holds no interrupt.

6.18 compatibility decisions:

- `registered_fb` is no longer exported. Validate the pinned root-level DT
aperture instead of linking to that private symbol.
- `no_llseek` is gone; use a NULL file-operation entry.
- Published-VMA setters require GPL-only locking helpers. The pinned kernel
invokes `.mmap` on a newly allocated VMA before insertion into the tree, so
initialize its flags with `vm_flags_init`. Recheck this ordering for a new
kernel; do not change the loader license marker to bypass modpost.
- The pinned kernel invokes `.mmap` on a newly allocated VMA before insertion
into the tree, so initialize its flags with `vm_flags_init`. Recheck this
ordering for a new kernel.

Successful compilation is **not hardware qualification**. Before installing
or distributing the artifact, verify the matched Main/frontend/Menu stack on
Expand All @@ -133,7 +148,7 @@ disk: the running kernel may still precede an update awaiting reboot.
`kernel/.build/ci/zaparoo-scanout.zip` (`package-scanout.py` remains the prototype
packager). Each profile is installed under
`zaparoo/modules/<kernel-release>/<GNU-kernel-build-id>/`. The profile contains
the module build ID, SHA-256, kernel revision, and Zaparoo's v1 1080p contract
the module build ID, SHA-256, kernel revision, and Zaparoo's v2 native contract
identifier. The ZIP also carries kernel config/symbol-table checksums and matching
module sources with their existing attribution. Do not strip or rewrite the
module after packaging. This is integrity/provenance, not a signature.
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184 changes: 166 additions & 18 deletions kernel/scanout-slots/zaparoo_scanout.c
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -2,21 +2,29 @@
// Copyright (C) 2026 Nigel Breslaw
// Zaparoo fork: namespaced device, 6.18 platform validation, lifetime ownership.

/* Bounded write-combined RGB565 slots. No FPGA commands, DMA, or IRQ ownership.
* Reservations belong to the open file and all its VMAs, not module residency.
/* Bounded write-combined scanout slots: two RGB565 HDMI slots and Menu's native
* video window, plus a wait on the native raster's vertical sync. No FPGA
* commands or DMA. Reservations and the sync interrupt belong to the open file
* and all its VMAs, not module residency.
*/
#include <linux/build_bug.h>
#include <linux/capability.h>
#include <linux/fs.h>
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/ioport.h>
#include <linux/irq.h>
#include <linux/irqdomain.h>
#include <linux/jiffies.h>
#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/of.h>
#include <linux/of_irq.h>
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
#include <linux/utsname.h>
#include <linux/wait.h>
#include "zaparoo_scanout_platform.h"
#include "zaparoo_scanout_uapi.h"

Expand All @@ -25,6 +33,10 @@
static DEFINE_MUTEX(owner_lock);
static bool owned;
static struct resource *slot_resources[ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_SLOT_COUNT];
static struct resource *native_resource;
static int native_irq;
static u32 native_sync_count;
static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(native_sync_wait);
static const unsigned long slot_addresses[] = {
ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_SLOT0_PHYS, ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_SLOT1_PHYS
};
Expand All @@ -36,17 +48,20 @@ static const struct zaparoo_scanout_layout layout = {
.max_stride_bytes = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_MAX_STRIDE,
.slot_capacity_bytes = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_CAPACITY,
.map_bytes = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_MAP_BYTES,
.flags = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_WRITE_COMBINE | ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_EXCLUSIVE_OWNER,
.flags = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_WRITE_COMBINE | ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_EXCLUSIVE_OWNER |
ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_WINDOW | ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_VBLANK,
.slots = {
{ ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_SLOT0_PHYS, 0 },
{ ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_SLOT1_PHYS, ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_SLOT1_SELECTOR },
},
.native_control_offset_bytes = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_CONTROL_SELECTOR,
.native_control_bytes = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_CONTROL_BYTES,
.native_pixels_offset_bytes = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PIXELS_SELECTOR,
.native_pixels_bytes = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PIXELS_BYTES,
};

/* 6.18 no longer exports registered_fb. Check the exact root-level DT window
* instead: slots are above its complete aperture, independent of live fb mode.
* Raw property reads deliberately use non-GPL-only exports. Do not mislabel
* the GPL-3.0 source's loader classification to access GPL-only helpers.
*/
static int validate_platform(void)
{
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -75,6 +90,58 @@ static int validate_platform(void)
return ret;
}

static irqreturn_t native_sync_irq(int irq, void *data)
{
WRITE_ONCE(native_sync_count, native_sync_count + 1);
wake_up_interruptible(&native_sync_wait);
return IRQ_HANDLED;
}

/* The stock device tree describes only MiSTer_fb's HDMI interrupt, so map
* the neighbouring FPGA line on that node's interrupt controller directly.
* Caller holds owner_lock.
*/
static int native_sync_start(void)
{
struct irq_fwspec spec = {
.param_count = 3,
.param = { 0, ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_SYNC_SPI, IRQ_TYPE_EDGE_RISING },
};
struct device_node *node, *controller;
int irq, ret;

if (native_irq)
return 0;
node = of_find_compatible_node(NULL, NULL, "MiSTer_fb");
if (!node)
return -ENODEV;
controller = of_irq_find_parent(node);
of_node_put(node);
if (!controller)
return -ENODEV;
spec.fwnode = of_fwnode_handle(controller);
irq = irq_create_fwspec_mapping(&spec);
of_node_put(controller);
if (!irq)
return -ENXIO;
ret = request_irq(irq, native_sync_irq, 0, DEVICE_NAME, &native_sync_wait);
if (ret) {
irq_dispose_mapping(irq);
return ret;
}
native_irq = irq;
return 0;
}

static void native_sync_stop(void)
{
if (!native_irq)
return;
free_irq(native_irq, &native_sync_wait);
irq_dispose_mapping(native_irq);
native_irq = 0;
}

static void release_slots(void)
{
unsigned int i;
Expand All @@ -84,6 +151,28 @@ static void release_slots(void)
slot_resources[i] = NULL;
}
}
if (native_resource) {
release_mem_region(ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PHYS, ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_BYTES);
native_resource = NULL;
}
}

/* HDMI-only clients never touch the native window, so it is reserved by its
* first mapping instead of at open.
*/
static int reserve_native(void)
{
int ret = 0;

mutex_lock(&owner_lock);
if (!native_resource) {
native_resource = request_mem_region_exclusive(ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PHYS,
ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_BYTES, DEVICE_NAME);
if (!native_resource)
ret = -EBUSY;
}
mutex_unlock(&owner_lock);
return ret;
}

static int scanout_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -122,6 +211,7 @@ static int scanout_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
* after close(fd). The final release may run in a different task.
*/
mutex_lock(&owner_lock);
native_sync_stop();
release_slots();
owned = false;
mutex_unlock(&owner_lock);
Expand All @@ -130,36 +220,87 @@ static int scanout_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)

static int scanout_mmap(struct file *file, struct vm_area_struct *vma)
{
unsigned long phys;
if (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start != ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_MAP_BYTES ||
!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) || !(vma->vm_flags & VM_READ) ||
unsigned long phys, bytes = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_MAP_BYTES;
bool native = true, write_combine = true;
int ret;

if (!(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED) || !(vma->vm_flags & VM_READ) ||
!(vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE) || (vma->vm_flags & VM_EXEC))
return -EINVAL;
if (!vma->vm_pgoff)
if (!vma->vm_pgoff) {
phys = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_SLOT0_PHYS;
else if (vma->vm_pgoff == ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_SLOT1_SELECTOR / PAGE_SIZE)
native = false;
} else if (vma->vm_pgoff == ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_SLOT1_SELECTOR / PAGE_SIZE) {
phys = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_SLOT1_PHYS;
else
native = false;
} else if (vma->vm_pgoff == ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_CONTROL_SELECTOR / PAGE_SIZE) {
/* The reader latches these words; they must never sit in a
* write-combining buffer behind the pixels they publish.
*/
phys = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PHYS;
bytes = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_CONTROL_BYTES;
write_combine = false;
} else if (vma->vm_pgoff == ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PIXELS_SELECTOR / PAGE_SIZE) {
phys = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PHYS + ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_CONTROL_BYTES;
bytes = ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PIXELS_BYTES;
} else {
return -EINVAL;
}
if (vma->vm_end - vma->vm_start != bytes)
return -EINVAL;
if (native) {
ret = reserve_native();
if (ret)
return ret;
}

vma->vm_page_prot = pgprot_writecombine(vma->vm_page_prot);
vma->vm_page_prot = write_combine ? pgprot_writecombine(vma->vm_page_prot) :
pgprot_noncached(vma->vm_page_prot);
/* The pinned kernel's __mmap_new_vma invokes this callback before
* inserting the new VMA into its tree. Initialize flags here; changing
* a published VMA would instead require the per-VMA locking helpers.
*/
vm_flags_init(vma, (vma->vm_flags & ~(VM_EXEC | VM_MAYEXEC)) |
VM_IO | VM_PFNMAP | VM_DONTEXPAND | VM_DONTDUMP | VM_DONTCOPY);
if (remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start, phys >> PAGE_SHIFT,
ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_MAP_BYTES, vma->vm_page_prot))
if (remap_pfn_range(vma, vma->vm_start, phys >> PAGE_SHIFT, bytes,
vma->vm_page_prot))
return -EAGAIN;
return 0;
}

static long wait_native_vblank(unsigned long argument)
{
u32 seen, count;
long left;
int ret;

mutex_lock(&owner_lock);
ret = native_sync_start();
mutex_unlock(&owner_lock);
if (ret)
return ret;
seen = READ_ONCE(native_sync_count);
left = wait_event_interruptible_timeout(native_sync_wait,
READ_ONCE(native_sync_count) != seen,
msecs_to_jiffies(ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_SYNC_TIMEOUT_MSEC));
if (left < 0)
return left;
if (!left)
return -ETIMEDOUT;
count = READ_ONCE(native_sync_count);
return put_user(count, (u32 __user *)argument) ? -EFAULT : 0;
}

static long scanout_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int command, unsigned long argument)
{
if (command != ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_GET_LAYOUT)
switch (command) {
case ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_GET_LAYOUT:
return copy_to_user((void __user *)argument, &layout, sizeof(layout)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
case ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_WAIT_NATIVE_VBLANK:
return wait_native_vblank(argument);
default:
return -ENOTTY;
return copy_to_user((void __user *)argument, &layout, sizeof(layout)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
}
}

static const struct file_operations scanout_fops = {
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -188,6 +329,14 @@ static int __init scanout_init(void)
BUILD_BUG_ON(ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_CAPACITY > ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_MAP_BYTES);
BUILD_BUG_ON(ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_FB_DT_BASE + ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_FB_DT_BYTES > ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_SLOT0_PHYS);
BUILD_BUG_ON(ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_SLOT0_PHYS + ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_MAP_BYTES > ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_SLOT1_PHYS);
BUILD_BUG_ON(ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_SLOT1_PHYS + ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_MAP_BYTES > ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PHYS);
BUILD_BUG_ON(ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PHYS & ~PAGE_MASK);
BUILD_BUG_ON(ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_CONTROL_BYTES & ~PAGE_MASK);
BUILD_BUG_ON(ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PIXELS_BYTES & ~PAGE_MASK);
BUILD_BUG_ON(ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_CONTROL_SELECTOR & ~PAGE_MASK);
BUILD_BUG_ON(ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PIXELS_SELECTOR & ~PAGE_MASK);
BUILD_BUG_ON(ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_CONTROL_BYTES + ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PIXELS_BYTES !=
ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_BYTES);
if (validate_platform()) {
pr_err("zaparoo_scanout: unsupported kernel/device-tree platform\n");
return -ENODEV;
Expand All @@ -203,7 +352,6 @@ module_init(scanout_init);
module_exit(scanout_exit);
MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Zaparoo exclusive write-combined scanout slots");
MODULE_AUTHOR("Nigel Breslaw; Zaparoo Project contributors");
/* Linux's loader classification is not the source license. */
MODULE_LICENSE("Proprietary");
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");

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MODULE_INFO(source_license, "GPL-3.0-or-later");
MODULE_INFO(kernel_revision, ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_KERNEL_REVISION);
14 changes: 14 additions & 0 deletions kernel/scanout-slots/zaparoo_scanout_platform.h
Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change
Expand Up @@ -18,5 +18,19 @@
#define ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_CAPACITY 4147200UL
#define ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_MAP_BYTES 4149248UL
#define ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_SLOT1_SELECTOR 8294400UL
/* Menu's native video reader window: control words in the first page, both
* frame slots after it (rtl/native_video_reader.sv).
*/
#define ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PHYS 0x3A000000UL
#define ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_BYTES 0x00300000UL
#define ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_CONTROL_BYTES 0x00001000UL
#define ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PIXELS_BYTES 0x002FF000UL
#define ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_CONTROL_SELECTOR 16588800UL
#define ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_PIXELS_SELECTOR 24883200UL
/* sys_top's f2h_irq[1], the core raster's video_sync pulse: GIC SPI 41,
* beside MiSTer_fb's SPI 40 for HDMI.
*/
#define ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_SYNC_SPI 41U
#define ZAPAROO_SCANOUT_NATIVE_SYNC_TIMEOUT_MSEC 50U

#endif
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