Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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FABRIC-3.md §IX.5's "4th-device enumeration failure" was never a driver
bug: QEMU's default qemu-xhci controller (p2=4,p3=4) exposes only 4 real
dual-role ports, not 8 as the parameter names suggest. Attaching more
devices than that on bus=xhci0.0 without an explicit port= makes QEMU
silently auto-insert a USB2 hub past the 4th slot; the xHCI/BOT driver
correctly reports that hub as "not a Mass Storage/SCSI/BOT device" because
it genuinely isn't one, and every drive behind it is unreachable (no hub
descent in this driver). Confirmed live via QEMU's own `info usb` before
touching any kernel code.
Fix is entirely in the QEMU test harness, not the kernel:
- New XHCI_PORTS Make variable (default 16, overridable) sizes p2/p3 on
all three arches' qemu-xhci controller with real headroom above the
current 9-device identity roster, per Bob's standing ruling against
hardcoding a bound to today's scale (FABRIC-3.md §VII.4).
- ZUSEDISK_QEMU_ARGS now gives Zuse's drive an explicit port=1.
- QEMU_EXTRA's own doc comment shows the port= pattern for additional
devices.
Also fixed in passing: ZUSEDISK's default path (disk/zuse.img) was stale
-- that file was deleted from git at c3db963, superseded by
disk/thumbdrives/zuse-thumb-ident.img, but the Makefile default was never
updated, so a plain `make qemu` silently failed to attach Zuse at all.
Now defaults to the real minted image.
Not addressed here, flagged for later: scripts/bleach_zuse_img.sh and
disk/README.md still reference the deleted disk/zuse.img path. The
9-device concurrent enumeration itself (the scenario that originally
surfaced §IX.5) remains unverified against the real kernel -- this change
only confirms single-device boots are unaffected on all three arches.
Three-arch clean qemu acceptance passed (single Zuse device, port 1):
amd64, aarch64, riscv64 all reached POST: PASSED / PARITY:OK / "Zuse:
identity confirmed from attached thumbdrive" / (zuse) ok>.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_014Ec88YKxxhZGG1RNnune78