LithosAnanake/README.md

LithosAnanke v2.0.1

UEFI-bootable FORTH microkernel. Boots from firmware, initialises memory and interrupts, then runs the StarForth VM as its sole userspace runtime. No libc. No OS. Just stone and necessity.

Lithos (foundation) + Ananke (necessity) — the kernel under StarshipOS.

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Status — M7.1 (Capsule System · Multi-VM Fleet)

Milestone		Status
M0–M6	UEFI boot · PMM · VMM · IDT · APIC · heap · framebuffer VT100 console (v1.5.1-FINAL)	✅ Complete
M7	StarForth VM integration + parity validation	✅ Complete
M7.1	Capsule birth protocol · Mama FORTH vocabulary · Tripod multi-VM fleet (Hermes/Artemis) · Word-level ACL (Phases 1–7)	🔄 In Progress
M8	REPL — keyboard input, interactive Forth	Planned
M9	Block storage — AHCI driver	Planned

POST at boot: parity hash verified across amd64/aarch64/riscv64 · Mama capsule dictionary: 453 words

What's live in M7.1

• Tripod — a named multi-VM fleet (Hera the Mama VM, Artemis, two Hermes instances) births, runs, and re-births independently, verified booting live pre-REPL on all three architectures.
• Hermes — a 17-block inter-VM messaging/channel layer between fleet members, with async delivery and channel negotiation.
• Artemis — a Block Allocation Map (BAM) storage subsystem with Q48.16 block-heat tracking and cooldown/reclamation (ART-COOL/ART-REAP).
• Word-level ACL — every dictionary entry carries a TTL/allow/mode/pin access-control record. Strict, TTL, and pinned modes; two console layers (emergency ok> and superuser zuse)ok>). Phases 1–7 complete (C infrastructure, FORTH policy layer, zuse bootstrap superuser, Isabelle proof stubs, kernel parity); Phase 8 (Ed25519 PKI / thumbdrive challenge-response) is the only item remaining. Measured overhead once active on every check: +0.0054%–+0.0088%, CV = 0.000%, across a 3×3 Latin-square DoE campaign (architecture × seed × 30 replicates) — three orders of magnitude below the measurement floor.
• VM Fleet Attractor physics — the L8 Jacquard mode selector now has a real per-VM heat channel into fleet-wide tuning, replacing hardcoded compudynamics constants with a dynamically-inferred rate.
• Kconfig build configuration — every physics/heartbeat/pipelining/ kernel-only tuning knob (~40 total) is now a discoverable, optional Kconfig symbol shared with the hosted VM build. See Quick Start below.

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Quick Start

# One boot image per physical target (output: build/boards/<board>/)
make boot_image TARGET=SER5       # Beelink SER5   -- GPT/ESP, BOOTX64.EFI
make boot_image TARGET=RASPI      # Raspberry Pi 5 -- FAT, config.txt + kernel_2712.img + DTB
make boot_image TARGET=MILKV      # Milk-V Mars    -- GPT/ESP, BOOTRISCV64.EFI (U-Boot bootefi)
make boot_image TARGET=ZYNQ7020   # Zynq-7020      -- ARMv7 port in progress
make boards                       # list boards

# The same TARGET drives all, docs and clean (make help)
make                              # every board with a kernel port + hosted v3 + the book
make TARGET=RASPI                 # one board's image + build/docs/LithosAnanke-raspi.pdf
make docs                         # build/docs/LithosAnanke.pdf (LaTeX master: docs/book/main.tex)
make clean TARGET=RASPI           # that board's outputs and build/aarch64/kernel
make clean                        # all of build/ except build/cache/

# Build kernel (requires cross-compilation toolchain, or native gcc)
make -f kernel/Makefile ARCH=amd64

# Run in QEMU with OVMF
make -f kernel/Makefile qemu

# Other architectures
make -f kernel/Makefile ARCH=aarch64 qemu
make -f kernel/Makefile ARCH=riscv64 qemu

Artifacts: build/amd64/kernel/starkernel_loader.efi · build/amd64/kernel/starkernel_kernel.elf

Tree: kernel/ (LithosAnanke: Makefile, src/, include/starkernel/, linker/), v3/ (StarForth v3 engine and hosted build: Makefile, src/, include/), v4/ (StarForth v4, see docs/v4.0.0/), boards/<board>/ (board.mk + boot files). Every makefile runs from the repo root; the root Makefile forwards any other goal to v3/Makefile (hosted build).

For the hosted VM by itself (Linux, no cross-compiler needed, no bare-metal tooling): see the separate StarForth repository — LithosAnanke used to be a branch inside that repo, now it's its own project with its own master.

Build configuration (optional)

Every kernel-only knob (STARFORTH_ENABLE_VM, PARITY_MODE, the shared physics/heartbeat family, etc.) is an optional Kconfig symbol — a plain make -f kernel/Makefile uses the same defaults it always has unless you opt in:

make -f kernel/Makefile ARCH=amd64 menuconfig
make -f kernel/Makefile ARCH=amd64 kernel_amd64_defconfig

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Documentation

System Architecture	Full kernel + VM design
HAL Reference	Hardware abstraction layer interfaces
Capsule System — M7.1	Capsule birth protocol design
VM Fleet Attractor design log	Tripod/Hermes/Artemis physics + build-system history
Getting Started / Kconfig reference	Full symbol reference for both build targets
Changelog	Milestone-level history
Roadmap	Milestone plan through self-hosting

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License

Starship License 1.0 (SL-1.0) — free for personal, research, and educational use. Commercial use requires a separate agreement. Attribution to R.A. James (Captain Bob) must be preserved in all distributions.

Patent pending. USPTO provisional filed December 2025 — physics-grounded self-adaptive runtime system. This license does not grant patent rights. Licensing inquiries: rajames440@gmail.com

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Robert A. James (Captain Bob) · Systems Engineer · Hacking since 1973