Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Implements the message-arrival eligibility signal FABRIC-3.md §XXVIII.1 left open (has_work per-slot flag, set via new SWITCH-MARK-WORK primitive from MSG-SEND) so an idle VM never becomes a switch target purely by waiting out the readiness threshold. Also root-causes and fixes a second, independent switch-storm: the tick's "who is current" check used vm_log_attributed_vm(), which can't see a VM parked in switch.c's own raw trampoline. Replaced with a dedicated g_switch_current_vm tracked by the switch mechanism itself, and moved target-slot eligibility reset to the switch decision point instead of relying on ISR polling to observe a window that can be only a few instructions wide. Verified live on all 3 architectures: clean boot to zuse@Hera] ok>, live cross-VM message dispatch, and (since a quiet log looks identical to a livelocked storm once the DoE probe is gone) confirmed genuine REPL liveness via QMP send-key + screendump on aarch64/riscv64, not log inspection alone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01BWpNjdwPtFLuVLaAq44L9K
src/starkernel/
LithosAnanke — the bare-metal UEFI kernel that boots StarForth directly on
hardware (amd64/aarch64/riscv64). Built only via Makefile.starkernel; the
only valid acceptance test is the three-arch QEMU boot (see
.claude/CLAUDE.md), never make test.
kernel_main.c— kernel entry point, driving the boot milestones (console init, PMM, VMM, interrupts, timers, kmalloc heap, VM bootstrap).repl.c— kernel REPL.doe_log.c— kernel-side DoE (Design of Experiments) metrics logging.
Subdirectories:
arch/{amd64,aarch64,riscv64}/— per-architecture support (APIC/GIC/ PLIC interrupt controller, timers, boot/ISR assembly).boot/— UEFI loader, ELF loading, kernel command-line parsing.capsule/— capsule birth/run/load/validate pipeline.hal/— hardware-abstraction-layer implementation (console, framebuffer, VT100, memory, host services).hash/— XXHash64 content-addressing implementation.math/— kernel-build Q48.16 fixed-point arithmetic.memory/— physical/virtual memory managers and the kernel heap.pci/— PCI bus enumeration.virtio/— VirtIO block device driver.vm/— kernel VM subsystem (bootstrap, core interpreter, parity logging, capsule arena).
See include/starkernel/README.md for the corresponding headers.