Robert Allan JamesandClaude Opus 5
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fb_scroll_rows() hardcoded the pixel distance it physically shifts the framebuffer by as char_rows * 16 * scale -- the bitmap-font (font_8x16.c) cell height -- regardless of which glyph mode vt100.c actually had active. In TTF mode (the REPL's default, cell height 24px via VT100_TTF_CELL_H_PX) this meant every scroll_up(1) call physically shifted the framebuffer by only 16px while the text model (g_vt.rows, py_of()) placed each row 24px apart. That 8px-per-scroll shortfall compounds with every subsequent scroll: a few scrolls barely show it, but enough scrolls -- or scrolling quickly, which is just many scrolls in a short span -- accumulates into visible pixel overlap between rows, with newer lines drawn on top of the tail end of older ones. fb_scroll_rect() (the box-confined scroll added later for 4.4t) already carried a doc comment calling this out explicitly, describing its own explicit pixel_rows parameter as the fix for fb_scroll_rows()'s "fixed 16px-row assumption" -- fb_scroll_rows() itself was just never updated to match. Fixed by changing fb_scroll_rows()'s parameter from an implicit char_rows count to an explicit pixel_rows count (matching fb_scroll_rect()'s existing convention), and having its one caller (vt100.c's scroll_up()) pass lines * cell_h() -- the real active cell height -- instead of a raw line count for the callee to guess at. Verified: booted amd64 to the REPL (TTF mode active per sk_repl()'s own console_fb_enable_ttf() call), let boot chatter + WORDS output scroll the screen through thousands of accumulated scroll_up() calls, then measured every visible line's y-position via a QMP screendump. Spacing held at a perfectly consistent 24px (TTF cell height) top to bottom with zero drift -- the old hardcoded-16px bug could not have produced that after this many scrolls. Re-verified boot to ok> on all three architectures (amd64/aarch64/riscv64) per repo acceptance policy. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
experiments/
Design of Experiments (DoE) campaign data and analysis for the LithosAnanke kernel.
bare_metal/— the bare-metal DoE experiment: blind full-factorial 2⁴ runs measuring the L8 Jacquard mode selector's effect on the Steady-State Machine across amd64/aarch64/riscv64. Seeexperiments/bare_metal/README.mdfor the full directory layout (runs/,latest/,analysis/{charts,tables,report}).
Hosted-VM DoE campaigns (factorial/heartbeat/ablation studies) live under
docs/working/experiments/ instead — this top-level directory is
specifically the kernel/bare-metal side.