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LithosAnanake/include/starkernel
Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5 b0f12710bb Console-VM + user-VM pair: real async message-passing relay
Console sessions now route through the same general VM-to-VM messaging
system (Phase C) any VM can already use for its own reasons -- not a
synchronous shortcut. Per direct instruction: real async MSG-SEND/
MSG-DELIVER (Option B), not a VM-EXEC-based synchronous relay, because
messaging is a general capability, not a console-specific mechanism.

New CONSOLE-CMD-EVENT message type (common:messaging.4th). New
sk_repl_dispatch_line() (repl.c), called from both sk_repl_step and
sk_repl_run in place of a direct vm_interpret(): if the active VM's own
name has a live "<name>~user" counterpart registered, the raw input
line is wrapped as an S"-embedded CONSOLE-CMD-EVENT MSG-SEND and
interpreted on the console VM instead of being run directly -- the
console's own next MSG-TICK (Hera's idle pump) delivers it into the
paired user VM via VM-EXEC, same mechanism every other message already
uses. Falls back to direct interpretation if there's no pairing, or if
the line contains a `"` (known v1 limitation, warned about explicitly
rather than silently mishandled).

New capsule_console_birth() (capsule_console.h/.c): a bare VM whose
only content is loading common:messaging.4th -- the console side of a
pairing, parallel in shape to RUNCAP's user-VM birth but with fixed
embedded content instead of a devblock read (no identity, no thumbdrive
involved). New PAIR-TEST diagnostic word (mama_forth_words.c, matches
RUNCAP-TEST's own precedent): births both halves of a pairing and
registers the "<name>~user" mapping. Not the real pairing call site --
that's the eventual attach/onboarding flow -- this exists to exercise
the relay live before that flow exists.

Found and fixed a real, serious bug live: console_set_vm_name() stored
the caller's raw pointer instead of copying it. mama_word_use() (USE)
passes a VMRegistryEntry field living on its own stack frame -- once
USE returns, that pointer dangles, corrupting every console tag after
the first USE (observed directly as garbled "[[]" / binary-looking
prefixes instead of "[CaptBob]"). Fixed at the source: console_set_
vm_name() now copies into internal storage. That surfaced a second,
related bug across every console_get_vm_name()-based save/restore call
site in mama_forth_words.c (BIRTH, VM-STEP, VM-EXEC, CONNECT-HERMES,
CONNECT-ARTEMIS): saving just a pointer into the single internal buffer
meant an intervening console_set_vm_name() call silently corrupted the
saved value before the restore ever ran. New console_save_vm_name()
copies into caller-owned storage; every save/restore site updated.

Verified end-to-end, live in QEMU: typed WELCOME at a paired console
VM -- it did not execute directly (no UNKNOWN WORD), printed ok
immediately (queued, async), and on the next idle tick
"[CaptBob~user] Minted identity -- default personality" appeared on
its own -- genuine delivery and execution in the paired user VM through
the real MSG-SEND/MSG-DELIVER pipeline. Console tags confirmed clean
(no garbling) across all three architectures' full regression boot.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
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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.