MACHINE.md 2.2. Each is its entry's address, push and ;. Every node the
tests make carries the host ROM (host_load, Hera's births, the depth and
mesh tests' own nodes), and a division by zero inside the ROM returns to
the prompt (hosted-check). test_host_quit's fetch outside memory moves
past the ROM's range: 16384 is the ROM's first word now the tests' system
has its ROM, as the product's always had. dict_hash 0xfec8c47cfc6f437f.
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The host node starts in its ROM (entry 12), and the boot feeds it the
system's source through the console: capsules/v4/sys/map-64.f18, the
fourteen .f18 blobs and end.f18, each found, hash-checked and
signature-checked as any capsule, then EOT. The ROM assembles the system
and starts it at (IDLE); the host reads the image record
(v4_image_from_node) for what only the assembled system knows. A ROM
error is reported with its blob, line and meaning, then PARITY:FAIL.
Deleted: v4/tools/mkimage.c, capsules/v4/nucleus-64.f18, v4/capsule/*.v4,
v4/tools/v4tof18.py. The .f18 files are the source now.
- text.c speaks the rest of the ROM's language (set, here, store, start;
v4_text_value, v4_text_start), so the oracle reads the same source:
test_host_rom_nucleus compares the ROM against text.c on the .f18 files,
word for word, image record included. Host tests load the .f18 files.
- mkmap image writes v4_map_image (the map's description of the system);
hosted and the kernel link the ROM and the map instead of v4_image_64.c.
- Hera (Captain Bob's ruling, option 1): births stream the system the ROM
assembled, as assembled code; hera.4th is unchanged.
test_host_unit's host builds the system with the ROM.
- New parity lines: PARITY:V4_F18 per blob, PARITY:V4_ROM words=2049
rom_hash=0xa6c792b5821010b7 instructions=60725216.
Acceptance: amd64, aarch64, riscv64 boot to ok> with PARITY:V4_POST
tests=538 pass=538 fail=0, POST: PASSED, and PARITY:V4_SYSTEM
word_count=317 dict_hash=0xe5a57f3eb72ff94a on all three -- the same hash
as the prebuilt nucleus gave. make -C v4 test test-32 hosted-check: all
pass. Logs: logs/20261015-141648, -141938, -142350.
Startup cost under QEMU TCG, the ROM's assembly (last V4_F18 line to
V4_ROM): amd64 26.7 s of 132 s to ok>; aarch64 41.0 s of 195 s; riscv64
20.5 s of 101 s. Hosted native: +0.85 s.
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test_host_mesh.c, 220 checks: three exchanges on the row of three -- text
from the console for node 12 with what it prints and how it ended; node 11
SENDing node 12 text and waiting for its answer; a message node 12 has no
way for and its NACK to node 10 -- are each played once for every engine
step they take with node 11 removed at that step, and again with node 12:
17,642 removals at 64 bits. Every node left comes to rest asleep, blocked
at no port and in no operation, and answers. What is typed is a word
defined beforehand, so that the steps are the exchange's and not the
dictionary being searched.
Removed from the engine, nothing using them: v4_fabric_interrupt_error, a
device's pending hook, v4_node_words_since_look, V4_ERROR_INTERRUPTED.
MESH.md: 4.1's table has the addresses after the ports; 7a and 7b say what
of them still holds; 7b.7's limit is closed; step 6e is written up.
v4/README.md likewise.
make -C v4 test and sanitize at both widths, hosted-check, lint. Three
bare-metal boots with the typed session and a loop printing 400 numbers:
logs/20261013-165124 (amd64), -165428 (aarch64), -165818 (riscv64). POST
538 of 538, word_count=317, dict_hash=0x0951d7e02e251554 on all six, and
the three sessions are the same character for character. The boots were
built with the working tree's uncommitted change to kernel/Makefile that
adds the ISA to the kernel's version line; nothing else differs from this
commit.
The plan's final review is not done yet.
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- Engine: a wire keeps whether the message at its mark is the one last
looked at; a node's take, move and drop of any other answer 3 and write
nothing (MESH.md 7d.3). A wire cut and made again between a look and a
take no longer has a NACK done as text, or 256 cells written where one
was looked for.
- Engine: v4_fabric_wire_kernel wires a kernel to a port with no queues;
a message for it is refused at once, error 18, on a mesh as on the
products.
- The result of a drop is looked at; a take that does not take has the
message dropped, or gone past: nothing goes round.
- An answer nobody waits for is let go uncounted; (LOST) counts what should
have been delivered or acted on and was not. The flood's account is
exact.
- Error 18 from under a word that was printing empties the data stack, as
a fault does: that word's own values are not left there.
- Tests: the take and drop windows cut at every step, with and without
another message put; a refusal owed to a stuck node whose wire is full.
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- The result of every take is looked at: a wire cut between the look and
the take leaves nothing acted on (the text before run again, a refusal
counted, a wait ended by an old answer, a way forgotten).
- A node with no room to pass on what another printed, or its word of how
text ended, leaves it on the wire it came by and moves it when there is
room; what is behind it for the same port waits too. Sleep for room (9)
is woken by room on any of the node's wires (engine; MESH.md 7d.3).
- The lone node's host keeps no queue for the kernel's port: a message to
it is error 18. The step limit is counted while the node waits for room.
- A text waiting for room to print is not interrupted by console text;
AWAIT is, as before. (BREAK?) is gone.
- A GONE is believed only by the centre's port; unawaited answers let go
are counted; nothing past a message's last character goes on a wire;
AWAIT sets (AWAIT-FROM) only once the stack has been tried.
- test_host_depth.c: ten paths, each run works or ends in one named stack
error; it fails with (ROOM) or (ROOM-SERVE) taken out.
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Step 6e, tasks 2 and 3 (docs/v4.0.0/MESH.md 7d). The nucleus puts, looks
at, takes, moves and drops whole messages through the six addresses after
its ports; its own ring of messages waiting, the refusals owed, (GATE) and
the looking words' use are gone. SEND, an answer, a NACK and a GONE go or
are refused at once; what a text prints waits for room; a text is not
begun until the wire its answer goes by has room for it, and that room is
kept. The lone node's host (v4/system/boot.c) keeps its two wires and
does its operations; the test hosts' consoles put and take whole messages
through the fabric. New: tests/test_host_depth.c, every message path of
a mesh node at every depth of both stacks.
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