Robert Allan JamesandClaude Sonnet 5
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Punch list §25 item 4.3.5e complete. Extended virtio_input.c with a GIC-routed interrupt path alongside 4.3.5c's PLIC one -- same capability walk, feature negotiation, eventq handling (confirming §27.5.1's prediction that these items would share most of the driver). aarch64_irq_handler() dispatches to virtio_input_isr() before its EOIR write, same claim-dispatch-complete ordering riscv64 uses. Verified with a real QEMU sendkey keypress: exact KEY_A/press match, two real interrupts serviced, identical result to riscv64. Found (not fixed) an unrelated pre-existing bug: BYE's cold-reset path faults on aarch64, discovered incidentally since nobody had exercised it from a monitored session before. Three-arch acceptance boot clean. 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