Gates (clean tree, version single-source across FORGEFIRM_RELEASE /
rootfs stamp / .fw meta-version / tag, rootfs-vs-slot size with early
warning, installer-embedded pubkey must match the signing key,
factory-era fwup verification of the packed archive), then build,
pack, sign, checksum, and stage forgefirm.fw + sha256sums.txt +
forgefirm-image-glowforge.rootfs.wic.gz with the gh publish command
(--publish runs it where gh is authenticated). release.sh --dev packs
a dev-key-signed forgefirm-dev.fw from the release rootfs for the GUI
upload path. Signing keys are always passed explicitly - no defaults.
kas/README release order and the plan doc updated to match.
gitsm-pinned build of the controller with a sysvinit script (defaults 92, after forgectrl), installed in both images. Reboot-verified on the bench: controller and forgectrl come up unattended and Grbl answers on TCP:23.
Sources live at github.com/ScottW514/forgectrl (history extracted, layout src/ + init/); the recipe pins SRCREV and installs the init script from the repo. Adds the build-forgectrl.sh bench cross-compile script.
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y (factory behavior); PREEMPT_RT unavailable on arm32
6.12 and unnecessary for the pulse feeder - the 128 MiB SDMA ring at
1 byte per EPIT tick holds minutes of stream, so deep buffering plus
SCHED_FIFO rides out any PREEMPT-scale scheduling latency. Documents
the audit M9/N15 arithmetic next to the migration backlog.
kernel-module-glowforge and python3-gfhardware are now pushed and pinned by
SRCREV in meta-openglow (no AUTOREV anywhere), and the meta-openglow
Scarthgap port is published on its scarthgap branch. Record the full
push/release sequencing in kas/README.md (incl. the release-time flip to the
pinned-remote meta-openglow block and the release-asset naming rule), and
commit the kas lockfile pinning poky/meta-openembedded/meta-freescale(-distro)
at the revisions the working build used.
The untracked kas/externalsrc-dev.yml overlay (local python3-gfhardware via
/mnt/c) is removed: the pinned SRCREV replaces it.
Replace the repo + default.xml + setup-environment workflow with kas:
- add kas/forgefirm-glowforge.yml (Scarthgap layers pinned, meta-openglow
as a local sibling) and kas/README.md
- remove default.xml, base/conf/forgefirm-bblayers.conf,
scripts/setup-environment
- .gitignore the kas-managed layers/ and build caches
- BUILD.md: kas host setup and build instructions
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