Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Three-arch acceptance boot (amd64/aarch64/riscv64) clean, all reaching [Hera] ok>, plus amd64 screendump evidence for each item -- checking off 4.4c (console_fb_init wiring), 4.4d ([VMName] prefix reaching the framebuffer), 4.4e (\r/\n fix), and 4.4f (glyph-flip fix, previous commit). Screendump verification itself stays amd64-only pending future aarch64/riscv64 screendump tooling; Captain Bob accepted that gap as non-blocking for these checkboxes. 4.4g reframed from "anomaly, not root-caused" to a design decision: traced the missing hundreds of lines of boot output to console_fb_init() running after capsule_birth_mama() (which births the whole Tripod fleet and their self-tests) rather than before it, so that output is serial-only by construction -- not a scroll/CSI-parser bug. Left unchecked pending a call on whether to reorder console_fb_init() earlier in boot. Also commits routine artifacts from this session's three-arch runs: capsules/BLOCK_MAP.md (regenerated manifest), disk/artemis.img (Artemis writes on every boot), DOE CSVs, and the corresponding QEMU serial logs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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