Captain Bob, 2026-10-14: "v4 is the default build", "no, qemu to v4
too ... we are effectively trying to retire v3", "the 32 bit build needs
to go into the acceptance test too", "i don't care about v3".
- STARFORTH_V4 defaults on (Kconfig default y) and V4_DEFAULT=1
everywhere: every kernel carries v4 and v3 and boots v4; system=v3 boots
v3; STARFORTH_V4=0 builds v3 alone. Board images write system=v4.
- Acceptance (CLAUDE.md): the three ISAs as built (v4, POST passed,
V4_SYSTEM dict_hash equal) and make -C v4 test-32. v3 is not part of
it.
Acceptance run: amd64, aarch64, riscv64 -- PARITY:V4_POST 538/538,
dict_hash=0xe5a57f3eb72ff94a on all three, no unknown word; test-32: 30
suites, 0 failures. The SER5 image under OVMF boots v4 as built, v3 after
the one-word edit. README, BRINGUP, FABRIC-3 XLIII, the register updated.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Captain Bob's rulings, 2026-10-14: "delete" -- the duplicates listed in
DELETE-CANDIDATES.md are removed (the list stays as the record; the
formal tier's provenance comments repointed at the maintained copies) --
and "rewrite" the README: v2.1.0, the Tripod as Hera/Artemis/Hestia,
kernel-Hermes, identities on thumbdrives, the corrected ACL overhead,
1052-test POST and the current parity line, keyboards and storage, board
images carrying both systems and how to switch, and docs/README.md as
the way in. The book is left as it is, to be reworked later.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
docs/CLAUDE.md Phase 2, 2026-10-14. All moves by git mv; every archived
file carries a header saying what it is, why, and where to look instead.
- docs/reference/ (new): roadmap and versioning policy, M7.1, word-ACL
design, kernel args, hosted acceptance test, dictionary, primitives,
ontology, L8 table -- previously spread over docs/, docs/lithosananke/
and docs/03-architecture/.
- docs/working/archive/historical/: finished work (session plan, test-gap
audit, birthing plan, fix write-ups, the January architecture draft).
- docs/working/archive/superseded/: the Hermes-VM Tripod docs and July
Hermes designs (-> FABRIC-3.5/3.6), the StarForth roadmap, every working
doc already flagged superseded or obsolete.
- docs/working/archive/dead/: the hal_* target contract (never adopted),
L4Re, metrics-and-knobs.
- Papers and proposals into docs/working/papers/.
- References rewritten across the repo (not logs/, not docs/patent/);
CLAUDE.md's documentation section rewritten.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Both ruled by Captain Bob, 2026-10-03.
Products (README.md, JUSTIFICATION.md section 15): Hosted StarForth F18
(native Linux, amd64/arm64/riscv64, on hardware); FPGA StarForth F18 (a
32-bit build loaded into the FPGA, the gateway and foundation); and
StarshipOS (bare metal, LithosAnanke on the v4 F18 engine). FORTH-79
recomposed on the F18 engine is stored as a capsule, as are the
StarshipOS portions; the tree will be reorganised around this.
Acceptance (JUSTIFICATION.md section 16, v4/README.md): v4 is equivalent
to v3 at any point in time -- same vocabularies, same behaviour, on the
F18-derived engine -- and every ISA, hosted and bare metal, must still
reach its ok prompt. `make -C v4 test` is a development check, not
acceptance. v4 had no acceptance criteria before this.
Documentation only; no code changed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Source tree reorganization:
- Move StarForth v3 engine to v3/ (src/, include/, Makefile)
- Move kernel to kernel/ (src/, include/, linker/, Makefile)
- Create v4/ skeleton for F18-ISA golden model (DECOMPOSITION.md, JUSTIFICATION.md)
- Move FABRIC-0..4.md to docs/fabric/
- Move ONTOLOGY.md and ROADMAP.md to docs/
Board infrastructure:
- Add boards/ser5/, boards/raspi/, boards/milkv/, boards/zynq7020/
- Each board has board.mk (ISA, CPU flags, boot recipe) and README.md
- Root Makefile becomes thin dispatcher: boot_image, all, clean, docs take TARGET
- make boot_image TARGET=SER5|RASPI|MILKV builds one GPT/MBR image per board
- ZYNQ7020 target exists but stops with clear error (ARMv7 port not built yet)
- scripts/mkdiskimage.sh builds disk images for all boards
Docs pipeline:
- docs/book/ with LaTeX master (main.tex) and Makefile
- pandoc converts Markdown to LaTeX at build time
- Two Lua filters: table-widths.lua (wide tables wrap), code-breaks.lua (inline code breaks)
- make docs builds single PDF (754 pages, 0 missing characters)
- make docs TARGET=<board> adds board appendix
- build/docs/<book|board>/meta.tex stamps git commit into PDF
Bug fixes:
- 42 include paths that only worked by accident now use correct relative paths
- clang-18 hardcode replaced with configurable CC variable (fixed aarch64 build)
- Pi 5: kernel_2712.img linked at 0x80000, .bss zeroed, memory reserved
- Doxyfile, .clang-tidy, README.md, Kconfig paths updated
Verified:
- Hosted v3 build passes 1012 tests, 0 failures
- SER5 image boots in QEMU (OVMF), POST passes, K exact (65536 = Q48_ONE)
- Milk-V image boots in QEMU (OpenSBI + U-Boot + bootefi), POST passes
- make clean TARGET=<board> removes only that board and its ISA objects
- make all builds all boards, hosted v3, and docs in one run
Co-authored-by: Junie <junie@jetbrains.com>
The §G v2.0.0 QEMU release-gate punch list is complete (G.1 xHCI stall
recovery, G.2 unified rng_get_bytes() entropy entry point, G.3 NVRAM
de-scoped). Bump the kernel version to 2.0.0 (even major = LTS, per the
Release Versioning Policy: X.0.0 = QEMU release, X.5.0 = hardware bare-metal
release). Update README and .claude/CLAUDE.md version references and the
Makefile.starkernel version-roadmap comment.
Verified: all three arches (amd64/aarch64/riscv64) build clean with v2.0.0
embedded; QEMU amd64 boot shows "LithosAnanke v2.0.0", POST 1012/0/0 + ok>,
rng: backend = virtio-rng + entropy: ready, and Zuse identity confirmed from
the attached thumbdrive.
Kernel version only — the embedded StarForth engine version (3.1.0) is left
alone since it tracks a vendored copy that has genuinely diverged from the
standalone StarForth repo, not something to auto-sync. Verified builds on
amd64, aarch64, and riscv64.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
LithosAnanke is now its own repository rather than a branch inside the
combined StarForth/LithosAnanke monorepo, so this drops the old
master(StarForth)/lithosananke(kernel) branch-topology framing in favor of
the current reality: this repo's master is the sole LithosAnanke production
line. Ground-truths numbers that had drifted (kernel tree file count,
word_source file count, capsule count), reframes the vendored VM source as
the embedded engine it actually is rather than a second production target,
and independently verifies the ACL kernel-parity and DoE-campaign claims
against the actual current code. Fixes README's self-referential
"see master branch" link to point at the separate StarForth repo instead.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
