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LithosAnanke/kernel/include/starkernel
Claude e8e7ec8b9f feat(v4): word accounts at call -- the word ID in the header, the kernel's records, the Stadium charged per tick (#189)
ENGINE step 4 Phase 2 (plan docs/v4.0.0/plans/2026-11-13-engine-step4-phase2-word-accounts.md). Rulings,
Captain Bob 2026-11-13: "ID field in the header"; "Per heartbeat tick"; the ACL "All of it in Phase 4".

- The word ID, at xt-4 before the flags (ENGINE.md 3b). The system's words are numbered as they are
  assembled, by a new directive, #id, (and #ids, the count), in the C assembler (text.c) and in the
  machine ROM's (capsules/v4/rom), which counts in the system's own (NEXT-ID). (HEADER) numbers later
  words; FORGET gives back the IDs it frees, always the newest; COLD resets to (BOOT-ID); (SEAL) records
  it. All 313 system headers carry the cell.
- The kernel's records (v4/mesh.h): (TELL-DEFINED) and (TELL-FORGOTTEN), requests -19/-20 on port 0,
  which the kernel puts in (WORD-DEFINED)/(WORD-FORGOTTEN) when it seals a node, and reads the system's
  own words once. A bit per address marks a word's xt (calls into the ROM or headerless code are not
  words); at call, the bit test and a count. v4_mesh_charge hands the owner the calls since.
- The Stadium: stadium_words_charge -- N calls as N of stadium_word_dispatch's dispatches, shared by calls
  when the reservoir is short; sk_v4.c charges every node's words at the tick beside its opcodes, and
  stadium_word_forget before an ID is used again.
- Tests first: test_text.c, test_host_dict.c, test_host_quit.c (numbering, FORGET, COLD),
  test_mesh_boot.c (44 checks), kernel/tests/test_stadium_words.c; qemu_session.py: Hera's words
  admitted after POST.
- amd64: Stadium words: promotions=141 after POST, CONSERVED; POST 539/539; word_count=377;
  dict_hash 0xa854ba15b437d288 (the new cell); the boot 142 s against Phase 1's 153 s.
- v4 test, test-32: all pass; v4-checks: 80 programs under the sanitizers, 0 failures; the hosted
  builds alike. docs/reference/v4-dictionary.tsv: the two new words; FABRIC-3 XLVIII.24.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017RzZgrf7V7Zk2iczBXDRbm
2026-11-13 19:12:44 +00:00
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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 (see tools/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.