Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Direct mirror of the existing READ(10) implementation (FABRIC-3.md §F.1), data direction flipped: new XHCI_XFER_BOT_DATA_OUT/XHCI_NEXT_ACTION_BOT_DATA_OUT states, xhci_bot_send_write10()/xhci_bot_write_block()/xhci_bot_write_data_out() in xhci.c, new SCSI_CMD_WRITE10 opcode and BOT_CMD_WRITE10/BOT_TUR_CHAIN_WRITE10 enum values. usb_blk_write() in blkio_usb.c is real now, no longer the BLKIO_ENOSUP stub. read_only flips to 0 in blkio_info() now that it's proven. Verified live end-to-end on all three architectures with a genuine cold-reboot round-trip (not just a same-session read): BLK-CONFIRM-FORMAT's BAM/reloc writes and an explicit block content write both completed via clean WRITE10 cycles (CSW PASS), and the written byte read back correctly after a full kernel rebuild + fresh boot -- amd64=65, aarch64=170, riscv64=201, each at LBN 32734 on a disposable usbwrite-test.img attached via QEMU usb-storage. Added Makefile.starkernel's QEMU_EXTRA (empty by default, no behavior change) to attach the disposable test image for this validation; the drive must be hotplugged via QMP after boot reaches ok>, not attached at QEMU launch -- attaching before xhci_bringup()'s controller reset means no fresh Port Status Change event fires (see project_xhci_milestone_2d_polling memory). Found and reported, not fixed, during testing: EMPTY-BUFFERS (empty_all_buffers(), block_words.c) does not implement standard Forth-79 semantics -- it force-writes zero to every block on every attached device instead of discarding cache assignments. This corrupted disk/artemis.img during an earlier test run; restored from git, confirmed byte-identical. Avoided in the final validation runs (detach/reattach used instead to force a fresh read). Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019ZGkimpfyh63EZyRkNbkPD
capsules/
FORTH personality files loaded by the VM at boot. A capsule is an immutable, content-addressed payload; its XXHash64 hash is its identity. Any mutation changes the hash and the birth protocol rejects the image.
Key files
| File | Type | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
init.4th |
(m) MAMA_INIT |
Default Mama VM personality — loaded at LBN 2048 |
ACL.4th |
user | Word-level ACL system; self-activating at boot |
zuse.4th |
user | Bootstrap superuser; loaded by ACL.4th |
doe.4th |
user | DoE workload words (EXEC-DOE) — opt-in |
init-0.4th … init-9.4th |
(p) |
Numbered personality variants |
init-l8-*.4th |
(p) |
L8 Jacquard mode variants (stable/volatile/diverse/temporal/transition/omni) |
hermes/init.4th |
(p) |
Hermes baby VM personality |
artemis/init.4th |
(p) |
Artemis baby VM personality |
Block namespace
Block ranges are shared across all loaded capsules — collisions cause silent word-definition overwrites.
| Range | Owner |
|---|---|
| 2048–2099 | init.4th |
| 2100–2199 | doe.4th |
| 3000–3999 | workload capsules |
| 4000+ | user-defined (ACL.4th, zuse.4th, …) |
Each block is limited to 1024 bytes. Verify with wc -c before committing.
See also
experiments/bare_metal/README.md— DoE protocols and block namespace rulesdocs/03-architecture/word-acl/DESIGN.md— ACL system designtools/mkcapsule.c— assembles capsules intocapsule_generated.c- Project root