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LithosAnanke/kernel/include/starkernel
Claude b1cac339c1 feat(kernel): v4 boots in the kernel's boot -- the Stadium, its checks, the opcode patrons
#189, ENGINE step 4, Phase 1 (plan 2026-11-13-engine-step4-phase1), Tasks
1-4. Captain Bob, 2026-11-13: Q1 "A new node key", Q2 "Per heartbeat
tick", Q3 "All of v3's", Q4 "In Phase 1" / "Full births now", who runs
next "Hera by compudynamics now" (Task 5, to come).

- stadium.c/.h: stadium_node_key(node) ("NODE" | number),
  stadium_boot_init_for(first), stadium_birth_node(key, name);
  stadium_boot_init() and stadium_birth_hera() are them for Hera's key, so
  v3's path is as it was (only an impossible panic's words changed).
- kernel_main.c: the system is chosen and said first, then the Stadium,
  sessions, switch-signal and kernel-Hermes tables for both systems in
  v3's order; v4: Hera, node 10, patron zero under her node key, the word,
  block and opcode layers. The quota self-test and the heartbeat's line
  are functions now, called by both systems.
- sk_v4.c/.h: sk_v4_run() goes -- sk_v4_boot() returns, the kernel's
  checks after POST (opcodes, words, conservation, quota, heartbeat), then
  sk_v4_prompt(). sk_v4_charge_opcodes() at the heartbeat's service points
  (the key wait, after each line) and once after POST.
- stadium_ops.c/.h: a node's 32 opcodes as Stadium patrons (HEAT-OP's
  feed, "Both"): retirements charged as the word layer's dispatches, a
  quantum each, the reservoir's floor kept, shared by retirements when
  short; cooling per tick as words. ~0.5 us a charge on the host: kept.
- qemu_session.py: a v4 acceptance boot fails without "Stadium: N cells",
  "Stadium conservation: CONSERVED" and the heartbeat's ticks (#189).

Tests first (logs/20261113-122142): the physics check failed on the v4
boot; test_stadium_node, test_stadium_ops (and its share case, after a
real boot showed ";" taking all the heat) failed before. Now: kernel host
tests all pass; amd64 v4 boot passes, POST 539/539, dict_hash unchanged,
"Stadium opcodes: 30 resident, hottest opcode 8", CONSERVED; a system=v3
boot prints its Stadium lines as on 2026-11-06.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017RzZgrf7V7Zk2iczBXDRbm
2026-11-13 12:50:02 +00:00
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include/starkernel/

Headers for LithosAnanke, the bare-metal UEFI kernel (src/starkernel/). Built only via Makefile.starkernel; gated by __STARKERNEL__ when shared with hosted code.

  • uefi.h — UEFI protocol/type definitions consumed by the loader.
  • elf64.h, elf_loader.h — ELF64 parsing and kernel-image loading.
  • boot_info_offsets.h — struct-offset constants shared between the assembly bootstrap and the C boot path.
  • arch.h, apic.h, timer.h — architecture init, APIC interrupt controller, timer (TSC/HPET/APIC, 100 Hz heartbeat).
  • console.h, framebuffer.h, vt100.h — UART 16550 console, framebuffer driver, and VT100 terminal emulation over the framebuffer.
  • pmm.h, vmm.h, kmalloc.h — physical memory manager (bitmap allocator), 4-level x86_64 paging, kernel heap allocator.
  • pci.h, virtio_blk.h — PCI enumeration and the VirtIO block device driver (disk backend for the kernel block subsystem).
  • capsule.h, capsule_birth.h, capsule_loader.h, capsule_run.h, capsule_vm_physics.h, capsule_generated.h — capsule system types, birth protocol, physics-runtime capsule bindings, and the build-time- generated capsule directory (see tools/mkcapsule.c).
  • kernel_args.h, cmdline.h — boot-time kernel argument parsing (starforth.cfg / command line).
  • repl.h — kernel REPL.
  • log.h, doe_log.h — kernel logging and DoE metrics logging.
  • q48_16.h — kernel-build copy of Q48.16 fixed-point arithmetic.
  • xxhash64.h — content-addressing hash used for capsule IDs.
  • hal_memory.h — hardware-abstraction-layer memory interface.

Subdirectories:

  • hal/ — top-level hardware-abstraction-layer interface.
  • vm/ — kernel VM subsystem headers (capsule arena, parity logging, bootstrap wiring).
  • freestanding/ — minimal libc-shim headers (assert.h, ctype.h, errno.h, inttypes.h, math.h, sched.h, signal.h, stdio.h, stdlib.h, string.h, time.h, sys/time.h, sys/types.h) for building shared VM code in the freestanding kernel environment, where no real libc is available.