ForgeFIRM's own files live under /data/forgefirm; two configuration
files did not. The machine settings sat at /data/forgefirm.conf, in the
root of /data beside the factory's own files, and the cloud-mode
configuration sat at /data/etc/gfhome.conf, inside a directory the
factory owns. Both move:
/data/forgefirm.conf -> /data/forgefirm/forgefirm.conf
/data/etc/gfhome.conf -> /data/forgefirm/gfhome.conf
There is no migration: only the bench has ever run this firmware.
/data/etc now holds only the factory's wpa_supplicant.conf.
The acceptance check of the file modes reads the settings file at its
new path, and the two bench tools that read it directly follow. The
pins move to the revisions that carry the change, forgectrl also
bringing the fix that reads the module's disabled state as idle:
forgectrl 468ee21 (0.1.12)
grblhal-glowforge 9ee624b (0.1.10)
forgefirm-app 56f134a (0.1.28+git)
The lock moves meta-openglow to b7ad6d9, which pins python3-gfhardware
on the same revision. The four upstream layers stay where they were:
`kas lock --update` moves every floating repository, and a release is
not the place to take poky, meta-openembedded and meta-freescale along
for the ride.
meta-forgefirm: the forgefirm-users init replays the account at boot;
sshd refuses root and empty passwords and runs only while the panel
turns it on; the release image keeps an empty root password for the
console; the console banner; avahi announces forgefirm.local; https in
libmicrohttpd and ulfius; the panel on 80 and 443; the license bundle on
the rootfs; release.sh checks the root policy on the built rootfs.
forgetest: the commission suites (commission, commission_dark,
commission_sheet: 23 cases); the runner turns cloud mode on with the
typed phrase for a test that declares it; the baseline's motor_lock is
0; the log-export test checks the bundle for the camera key; the record
helpers write bytes as given and join the daemon's paths as POSIX. The
stream harness gains rule 24: a hold verdict is held again after a
resume. Bench drills: lens_travel.py and lens_stop_accel.py.
Docs: BRINGUP carries the present state; CAMPAIGN-LOG carries the dated
record.
The release rootfs carried python3-modules (tkinter, idle, 2to3, pydoc,
ensurepip, venv, asyncio, multiprocessing, xmlrpc) through the python3
meta-package, and libgnutls30, nettle, libgmp10, libunistring5 and
libtasn1 through libmicrohttpd (https) and ulfius (GnuTLS). Nothing on
the image uses either. Each Python recipe declares the module packages it
imports; forgetest declares its own, so the dev image carries no module
the release image lacks.
Pins: forgectrl 0e907f7db54b7a4c90b660f198d49e5c66b667b5 (armed shown from a
fresh report only, zero smoke phase for a dark session), grblhal-glowforge
fa9ed7834faab6f48367dc1ca5a5109b474f788d (rail enable only standalone).
BRINGUP: the lid IR lamp response measured over the full range; no camera
register file under /data; the rail policy and the cool status items
closed; laser.armed-kill stays in its domain; the debug-kernel drill
constraints.
Platform change (layer content): the full campaign is owed on the built
image.
The dual-stack listener reports every peer as a sockaddr_in6; ulfius
2.7.15 copied sixteen bytes of it, so forgectrl's loopback-only cooling
channel refused the controller's every report (403 loopback only) and
the engine never saw a run or an armed window. The recipe carries the
patch: a sockaddr_storage allocation and a copy of the family's length,
in the dispatcher and in ulfius_copy_request.
forgetest: forgectrl.auth asserts POST /cool/state from loopback -> 200
beside the LAN 403, and covers src/peer.*. BRINGUP item 21 and the
campaign log record how the campaign on dev 20260824215906 found it.
rsyslog flagged the fallback action after the include as unreachable (the rendered rules end in stop). The forgefirm-logging init script now writes a default rules file when the render leaves none, and the shipped rsyslog.conf carries only the include.
rsyslog replaces busybox syslogd/klogd (VIRTUAL-RUNTIME_base-utils-syslog,
trimmed PACKAGECONFIG) and becomes the only log writer: the appended
/etc/rsyslog.conf sets the inputs and the ff_line format and includes
the per-logger rules that `forgectrl --render-syslog` renders from the
machine settings at boot. forgefirm-logrotate becomes forgefirm-logging:
render before rsyslog starts (S19), sweep the pre-syslog log files into
/data/forgefirm/legacy-logs once, and rotate the tree at boot and hourly
by rename + HUP instead of copytruncate. Pins bumped to the pushed
forgectrl (syslog emitter, Logs tab, export), grblHAL-glowforge (syslog
emitter) and python3-gfhardware apps (syslog handlers, capture dir);
the CI harnesses set FFLOG_STDERR=1 so failure diagnostics keep the
controller's log lines. BRINGUP carries the bench validation checklist
(Next work item 14); this is an image change and rides the next flash.
The release image now targets the 200 MiB factory eMMC slot: content
plus 40 MiB working space, hard build failure past the slot size. The
raw ext4 is deployed alongside the wic; scripts/mkfw.sh packs it into
a signed .fw with factory-pattern upgrade.a/upgrade.b tasks. fwup
1.16.0 recipe (applies ForgeFIRM and Glowforge-signed archives on
device) is installed in both images. Dev images stay SD-sized with a
256 MiB working margin and no ceiling.
Verified on the 20260808153331 build: release ext4 180.8 MiB; signed
.fw applies byte-exact with fwup 1.16.0 and with the factory's 0.14.2
(raw-format pubkey), and 0.14.2 -V verifies the signature.
ulfius builds itself with -Werror -Wconversion; Yocto Scarthgap sets
-D_TIME_BITS=64 on arm32, making a long-long-to-long time conversion
in u_websocket.c fatal. Exclude conversion warnings from -Werror.
The ulfius recipe tracked AUTOREV master and could never build: master
requires orcania/yder versions that have no release tags, no recipe for
either existed in any layer, and curl (default-ON WITH_CURL) was
missing from DEPENDS (audit M10). Pin the coherent release set - ulfius
v2.7.15 + orcania v2.3.3 + yder v1.4.20 - add the two new recipes,
add curl, convert to SPDX LGPL-2.1-or-later, and rename the misspelled
recipes-extended/uflius directory.
ScottW514