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First real use of the bulk Transfer Rings Configure Endpoint wired up. xhci_bot_send_read10() builds a 31-byte Command Block Wrapper (USB Mass Storage Class Bulk-Only Transport spec section 5.1) and submits it as a single Normal TRB on the bulk OUT ring via a new xhci_bulk_out_enqueue_and_ring() helper -- a CBW is always exactly one TRB, so unlike the EP0 helper this one rings its own doorbell rather than leaving that to a caller assembling a group. usb_bot_cbw_t is a real struct (every field up to the CDB array is naturally aligned, and this driver's targets are all little-endian already assumed everywhere else), but its DMA length is the explicit USB_BOT_CBW_LENGTH (31) constant, never sizeof(*cbw), since the compiler may pad the struct to 32 bytes. The SCSI READ(10) CDB itself is written byte-by-byte since its LBA/Transfer Length fields are big-endian on the wire, unlike everything else in this driver -- the one place two byte orders are both live in the same function. Completion is correlated via the existing pending_transfer_slot_id/ transfer_purpose gate (new XHCI_XFER_CBW_SENT purpose) -- no ring-specific dispatch needed, since this driver's single-outstanding- transfer scope already implies which ring produced an event. This covers construction and send only (one third of a full READ(10): CBW -> Data-In stage -> CSW) -- reading the Data-In stage and CSW receive/validation are separate, explicitly not-yet-implemented items. Verified live via a temporary probe (written, run once, log captured, reverted per this project's own probe convention) -- all three architectures, byte-identical: CBW submitted -> CBW send completed, then a clean disconnect even with the Data-In stage never drained (confirms no wedge on a dangling BOT transaction). Probe-free re-verification afterward on all three architectures. FABRIC-2.md Section X Milestone 2g's CBW checklist item marked done. Also records a monitoring gotcha hit three times this session: `ls -t` over the logs/ tree can return a stale leftover log from an earlier run in the same session -- fixed going forward by reading the log path off the actual running QEMU process's own command line instead, and a memory note added so it doesn't recur next session. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01R4VMX6VSKCten8nGgaMkq4
LithosAnanke v1.5.4
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.
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 superuserzuse)ok>). Phases 1–7 complete (C infrastructure, FORTH policy layer,zusebootstrap 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.
Quick Start
# Build kernel (requires cross-compilation toolchain, or native gcc)
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=amd64
# Run in QEMU with OVMF
make -f Makefile.starkernel qemu
# Other architectures
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=aarch64 qemu
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=riscv64 qemu
Artifacts: build/amd64/kernel/starkernel_loader.efi · build/amd64/kernel/starkernel_kernel.elf
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 Makefile.starkernel uses the same defaults it always has unless
you opt in:
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=amd64 menuconfig
make -f Makefile.starkernel ARCH=amd64 kernel_amd64_defconfig
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 |
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
Robert A. James (Captain Bob) · Systems Engineer · Hacking since 1973