feat(v4): the machine boots from its ROM; the prebuilt nucleus is gone

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.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
This commit is contained in:
rajames
2026-10-15 14:26:02 -04:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
parent 1bf19d6224
commit a73580e949
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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
\ system.v4 -- words about the dictionary as a whole: WORDS, FORGET, FENCE.
\ system.f18 -- words about the dictionary as a whole: WORDS, FORGET, FENCE.
\
\ DECOMPOSITION.md 5.13 and 5.15. Part of the compiler capsule; rests on
\ dict.v4, quit.v4 and forth.v4.
\ dict.f18, quit.f18 and forth.f18.
\
\ Constants the loader supplies:
\ FENCE word address of the variable: FORGET will not remove an entry
@@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ set HDR-NFA here ", FORGET #, 0 #, HDR-NFA #, HDR-LINK set HDR-LINK here
C1: drop (LATEST) CONTEXT a! !
C2: CURRENT a! @ (Q) a! @ inv + 1 + -if C3 drop jump TOLD
C3: drop (LATEST) CURRENT a! !
TOLD: (Q) a! @ jump (FORGOTTEN) \ the kernel's records of them go too (dict.v4)
TOLD: (Q) a! @ jump (FORGOTTEN) \ the kernel's records of them go too (dict.f18)
MISSING: drop (UNKNOWN) drop ;
\ ---- the system as a whole -------------------------------------------------------
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ set HDR-NFA here ", COLD #, 0 #, HDR-NFA #, HDR-LINK set HDR-LINK here
(BOOT) a! @ 2/ 2/ FENCE a! !
(LATEST) CONTEXT a! ! (LATEST) CURRENT a! ! 0 VOC-LINK a! !
10 BASE a! ! 0 SCR a! ! 2 (LOG-LEVEL) a! ! 0 (ACL-HOOK) a! ! EMPTY-BUFFERS
(BOOT) a! @ 2/ 2/ (FORGOTTEN) \ the kernel's records of what has gone go too (dict.v4)
(BOOT) a! @ 2/ 2/ (FORGOTTEN) \ the kernel's records of what has gone go too (dict.f18)
$54524F46 (EMIT4) $39372D48 (EMIT4) $6C6F4320 (EMIT4) $74532064 (EMIT4) $747261 (EMIT4) CR
$74737953 (EMIT4) $69206D65 (EMIT4) $6974696E (EMIT4) $7A696C61 (EMIT4) $2E6465 (EMIT4) CR
jump ABORT