FABRIC.md: item 4.5d Finding 4 -- deep-traced, not yet root-caused

Computed the loader's true runtime relocation delta to correctly correlate
fault addresses (the running image is starkernel_loader.efi, a relocated
PE, not the separately-linked starkernel_kernel.elf assumed at first).
Fault RIP decodes to log_message()'s entry -- coincidental, not causal,
since it's called on nearly every HADES dispatch during word registration.

Used QEMU's monitor for -d exec,int tracing. Late-start tracing (stop right
before the danger zone to keep trace size down) failed twice -- the window
between a detectable checkpoint and the crash is shorter than host-side
reaction latency. Fell back to full-boot tracing from -S (~2.7GB per
attempt, not committed). That trace shows an unremarkable, normal-looking
repeating three-block loop immediately before the fault, then "Servicing
hardware INT=0x20" (APIC_TIMER_VECTOR) with IDT already showing limit=0 at
that instant.

Ruled out a second illegitimate lidt call (only one call site exists
anywhere, one-time M4 boot setup; searched the trace for any later
execution of that address range and found none). Not yet established: the
actual corrupting write. Documented two remaining explanations (earlier
silent corruption vs. a genuine TCG artifact) and that pinpointing the
exact instruction needs GDB-level single-stepping, a bigger tooling step
than attempted this session.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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