Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Roots out the CSW status FAILED left unexplained in the prior increment: a freshly attached SCSI target's standing UNIT ATTENTION condition, which a bare READ(10) with no retry can never clear. xhci_bot_send_test_unit_ready() sends SCSI TEST UNIT READY (SPC-4 6.33) ahead of the real command; the CSW handler now tags command kind (bot_cmd_kind) to distinguish a TUR completion from a READ10 completion, chains TUR PASS into the real READ(10), and bounded-retries TUR on FAILED/PHASE ERROR (bot_tur_retries, capped at XHCI_BOT_TUR_MAX_RETRIES). xhci_bot_read_block() is the new intended entry point tying lba/num_blocks/block_size + the TUR-first sequencing together. Verified live via a temporary probe (hot-attached disk/usb-thumbdrive-test.img through the running instance's QMP socket), captured on amd64: full chain CBW(TUR) -> FAILED -> retry -> PASS -> CBW(READ10) -> Data-In -> CSW PASS. Probe reverted after capture; all three architectures re-verified clean, probe-free boot to ok>. FABRIC-2.md Section X 2g updated with the writeup. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01CXjAPTEKrgY2Mrk25KoLDn
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