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LithosAnanake/kernel/src/capsule
rajamesandClaude Opus 5.5 294e69463a feat(v4.0.0): the system boots from a nucleus and loads its capsules
One boot, v4/system/boot.c, for both products: it starts the nucleus image,
finds each capsule in the baked capsule directory, recomputes its hash,
checks its signature, gives its blocks to the node a line at a time, and
prints PARITY:V4_NUCLEUS, PARITY:V4_CAPSULE and PARITY:OK before the prompt.
A line the node does not accept ends the boot with the capsule, block and
line named.  docs/v4.0.0/NUCLEUS.md.

- hosted Linux product for amd64, aarch64 and riscv64 (make -C v4 hosted);
  make -C v4 hosted-check boots all three and requires identical output
- the kernel's v4 entry (STARFORTH_V4=1) calls the same boot
- capsules/v4/forth79.4th, block 6000: no definitions yet
- mkimage builds the nucleus only; no FORTH source is compiled at build time
- capsule_blocks.c: the Block-header parse, free of any VM, for every loader

Verified: make -C v4 test passes; hosted-check passes on the three ISAs with
the same hashes; the kernel compiles with STARFORTH_V4=1 on the three.
Not verified: no bare-metal boot of v4 has been run.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-10-05 15:28:30 -04:00
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src/starkernel/capsule/

Kernel-side capsule system: locating, validating, and executing the immutable, content-addressed .4th initialization payloads in capsules/ (embedded into the kernel image via tools/mkcapsule.c).

  • capsule_find.c — locates a capsule by name in the generated capsule directory.
  • capsule_validate.c — validates a capsule's content hash before use.
  • capsule_birth.c — the birth protocol: allocate VM ID → execute IDENTITY (capsule code) → execute PERSONALITY (block 1 from ramdrive) → log parity record.
  • capsule_run.c — capsule execution against a VM instance.
  • capsule_loader.c — loads capsule block content into kernel ramdrive block RAM, writing each Block N header to its literal numbered block address (not reordered).
  • capsule_vm_hooks.c — VM integration hooks for capsule execution.
  • capsule_vm_physics.c — physics-runtime bindings for capsule-birthed VMs.
  • mama_forth_words.c — Mama VM-specific FORTH word bindings.