rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5
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MESH.md step 3. The ports are the transport; the message is what is transported: to, from, type, heat and TTL, ACL tag, sequence, length, then text four characters to a word. - quit.v4: a node with nothing to do is blocked reading "any port"; text for it is interpreted; (FINISH) sends what it printed and then how the text ended, and it waits again - core.v4: EMIT keeps what is printed, (FLUSH-OUT) and (HDR) send it to the sender on the port the message came on. EMIT still needs one free data cell and no more; it works on the return stack and in A and B - message.h/.c: the same format for whatever is on a port and is not a node - boot.c: the boot is the node's console on port 1 and its kernel on port 0 - the prompt tests are a console that speaks messages - gone: v4_line_begin, v4_line_done, v4_line_status; writing a node's input buffer and setting its P from outside; any use of CONSOLE-TX Verified: make -C v4 test (test_host_quit.c 1283 checks, the full-stack figures unchanged) and make -C v4 sanitize pass; hosted-check passes on three ISAs with POST 550 of 550; clean qemu with STARFORTH_V4=1 passes POST and answers lines typed at each prompt on amd64, aarch64 and riscv64 (logs/20261006-110551, -111621, -111341). -110837 is an aarch64 run ended by the test wrapper's limit while still in UEFI firmware; it shows nothing about v4. Not done: KEY, EXPECT and QUERY still read the console's input registers; a message not for this node is let go (step 4). Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.