Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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arch_early_init() unconditionally cleared satp on every boot, justified only by behavior observed under QEMU/EDK2 firmware (satp.MODE=10/Sv57, kernel identity-mapped within it). That reasoning never applied to the native U-Boot+OpenSBI boot path, where satp is conventionally already 0 at S-mode handoff -- the unconditional clear was likely a harmless no-op there, but on an unverified assumption. Fix: read satp.MODE first and return early when it's already 0 (nothing to switch away from, no safety argument needed). The unconditional csrw/sfence pair still runs unchanged for the confirmed QEMU/EDK2 case. No Sv39/Sv48/Sv57 page-table walker built -- out of proportion to this finding's severity. 3-arch acceptance: amd64/aarch64 don't compile this file, so their runs are non-regression on untouched files only. riscv64's own boot log confirms satp.MODE = 0xa at entry, so the mode != 0 branch ran and "satp cleared -- Bare mode, explicit" printed exactly as before the fix. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019YcT3H2PQeyujrzjqS3Var
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