sk_hermes_publish() allocates one SkHermesMessage per channel member (heat-cost ruling 2026-09-21: one message per subscriber, funded by the publisher's own reservoir) and enqueues each onto a new per-subscriber SkHermesPendingQueue -- found-or-created lazily by vm_id, sized from stadium_max_vm_count() like the channel/switch tables. Best-effort across subscribers: a failed allocation or full queue skips and rolls back just that one subscriber, not the whole publish -- the natural reading of "ledger and stadium_conserved() hold across N publishes to M subscribers" (the task's own check), not a separate ruling. Dispatches nothing -- sk_hermes_pending_count()/peek()/pop() are the read/drain primitives task 3.4's real checkpoint-driven drain will build on; this task's own self-test uses them directly since no checkpoint hook exists yet. Verified live on all three architectures: pending-queue table sized 50/202/50 slots (tracking the channel table's own per-arch sizing), a synthetic publish self-test (2 publishes to 3 subscribers) confirms exact per-subscriber delivery counts, and ledger/stadium_conserved() invariants hold both mid-publish and after manually draining every queue back to baseline. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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 (seetools/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.