A Pirate Nest OS

TmTFx

As some of you know, it started as a demonstration of what Haiku could be if my idea of Hardware cursor management would be if implemented, but now I'm attached to it. My Pirate distro of Haiku is ok, I integrated that, plus other driver mods.
Moreover I added my "in-progress"-"early-stage" cryptografic driver (accelerated on multiple stages), with its API.
I added as well an API to interact with a centralized ai_server, which handles LLM-interfacing-plugins (you can write your own for whatever you want), api-keys, local context memory and many things (now I'm integrating in gemini plugin an MCP, hope to succeed XD ).
In the end I added some functions tut Keyserver to securely store passwords and keys (yes Haiku's keystore stores passwords plainly!). Today I fixed last problems with this component, and now it's extremely secure even without having a "root" or an administrator account.

This post is to keep you updated on what's happening on my side of the ship.
And now... I go back testing gemini mcp plugin... who knows if it works properly XD 🙂

TmTFx

Uh I forgot to say I modified a little bit more deskbar to interact with SpielBar, the new launcher (made by an italian guy) that substitute the normal deakbar menu.
Remember that if you need the old classic menu, you can use it by keeping pressed the OPTION key (windows key) and clicking the deskbar button.
Soon I'll integrate more software coming from other pirates.

Update: the new Keystore handles the encryption correctly but I introduced a regression and for some reason all the plugins have the same password now 🤦🏼‍♂️
I need to fix this, then make the AI communications work again...

And I forgot to say that I updated the core system to a recent revision

Shaka444

The question every scurvy dog wants to know be, where can a salty sailor find a download fer this OS?
Arrr!!

TmTFx

Shaka444 Every now and then I pass around a link... as I'm not sure at 100% that I removed Images covered by Copyrights I acts quietly until sure at 100% (maybe I'm missing some headers files containing the copyrighted Haiku images?!? who knows, I need to investigate this). give me some time for the next release (I'll let you know)

dcbeckman it depends on you, if you want to share your work and you know it's stable enough, I'll be happy to add your stuff and your name in the credits if you want!

update... I fixed the regression I introduced with the encrypted key (it was a freaking boolean ARRGH!!!). Synced communication works, async one no, and mcp isn't working too... Soon I'll be on vacation and I'll have more time to solve this.

dcbeckman

Let me know if you would like early access to my Media-OS repo. Includes usb_audio, usb_midi, midi_server, Patchbay, UHCI, and EHCI replacements.

clasqm

Feel free to pillage this galleon and take any treasure you fancy ...
https://sites.google.com/view/michelshaikuapps/home

TmTFx

clasqm thank you! this has indeed a lot of treasures.

TmTFx

Great news! Gemini plugin in async mode now has mcp!
a simple text conversation in async mode:

mcp conversation with PERMISSIONS!

TmTFx

this giving all the permissions:

asking it to commit and push...

TmTFx

Now I should refine here and there and introduce mcp to other plugins 😃
this is a task for the upcoming vacations

TmTFx

Today I improved the user experience while handling mcp sessions, now the clients receives ongoing operations descriptions, added 2 functions to set and get mcp permissions in an active session. removed some legacy code, and some other small improvements, like prioritizing user add-ons over system ones, avoiding duplicates.

At this point I'll focus on permissions granularity, extending mcp abilities and then adapting atomozero's Moe to Moeca "a little assistant crab powered by AI" (Moeca is a small crab in Venetian dialects)

Atomozero

https://github.com/atomozero/haiku-usb-stack
https://github.com/atomozero/haiku-vaio-vpceb3k1e

Here are the modifications I use on my laptop @TmTFx @dcbeckman @Null

TmTFx

Atomozero I need to coordinate with you about these two topics, my attempt to adapt intel_extreme to your mods (applied only for your card) for some reason broke mine XD, let's simply get in touch 🙂

Today I went out with relatives for a walk amidst rivers and mountains, and it took up the whole day. Not that tomorrow will be any better. But today I managed to create the "Moe" for the pirates: Moeca. Then I launched it with the modified version of Moe-AI, adapted to the integrated solution for AI in Haiku:

This is its answer after me asking: "can you give me some information about this pc?" (Well, my question was asked in italian) this was the result:

so yes, it can answer questions, and work as an mcp if you wish!

dcbeckman

Atomozero Thank you so much. Made two commits to integrate your changes into my Media-OS USB stack:
261c68f — EHCI HSE-abort + PrepareKernelAccess for the iso-OUT copy (Improvements to my EHCI stack)
91695c1 — imported stock usb.cpp / Device.cpp / PhysicalMemoryAllocator.cpp / usb_raw.cpp at baseline 315411d8 with STAB-01/02/03/05 fixes (files I had not touched - but now live in the Media-OS project)

TmTFx

Avast ye, scallywags!Cast your eyes on this thread, for I bring tidings of my latest bounty.

Lately, I've been playing around with an old card from back in '99... a Trident Blade 3D PCI 8MB.
Gemini and I wrote the driver and the accelerant. It made me bang my head against the wall, but in the end, it works flawlessly (thanks to the Xorg code I plundered, which is luckily MIT licensed—so credits to Alan Hourihane!!! Thank you).

The only missing feature is the overlay part (there is no code around for it). I was very happy with the result.

This latest development made me investigate Haiku's overlay system...
When writing the SM750 overlay part, I wasn't able to test it because it seemed that the Haiku Media Kit refused to use any colorspace other than B_RGB32!!!

Gemini helped me find the real problem!!! It is hardcoded to use only B_RGB32, for no apparent reason!!!!
I modified the Haiku Media Kit FFmpeg decoder plugin to support more than just B_RGB32 (since the most common video color space is YUV2, or rather B_YCbCr422).
After fixing that part, I was able to fix my SM750 overlay code and get MediaPlayer to use hardware scaling and the video layer.

It's a pity this poor card doesn't support color keying in the video/overlay plane. This means that when video overlay is used, it stays on top of every window. Too bad... but it drastically reduces CPU usage!

ANYWAY, unlocking FFmpeg opens up the opportunity to test overlay features on other cards...

I've also updated the kernel, adding NVMM and QEMU work. I still have some of the latest updates to merge...

As my memory looks like a sieve, maybe there is some other news, but... who knows...