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Robert Allan James ab96ac0970 starkernel: item 4.3.1 -- framebuffer orientation test, found and fixed a real color-swap bug
Adds fb_draw_orientation_test() (framebuffer.c/.h): fills the four raster
corners RED/GREEN/BLUE/YELLOW via fb_fill_rect. Wired into kernel_main.c
calling fb_init() directly -- console_fb_init()/vt100_init() removed from
the boot path, since vt100.c/console.c are superseded by the Console
drawing-fabric redesign (FABRIC.md ss27) and should not be exercised even
incidentally.

The diagnostic caught a real, pre-existing bug on its first run: framebuffer.c's
pack_pixel() had its FB_PIXEL_RGBX32/FB_PIXEL_BGRX32 branches swapped relative
to UEFI GOP's own byte-order naming convention, producing a clean R<->B channel
swap (G unaffected). Spatial placement was already correct -- no flip/rotation.
Fixed by swapping pack_pixel's two return bodies to match framebuffer.h's
already-correct doc comments; kernel_main.c's GOP-format switch needed no change.

Also item 4.3.2 -- QEMU screenshot capability. scripts/qemu_screenshot.sh
already existed (monitor socket + socat + HMP screendump), just unwired and
unused this session. Redirected its PNG output to a new top-level fb/
directory (tracked in git, not logs/, not a gitignored temp dir) and added a
python3+PIL fallback for PPM->PNG conversion since imagemagick isn't
installed here. Left as a standalone script for now, not wired into a
Makefile target.

FABRIC.md items 4.3.1 and 4.3.2 marked done with acceptance evidence.
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include/

Public headers for the hosted StarForth VM (src/). Kernel-only headers live under include/starkernel/.

Core VM

  • vm.h — the VM struct and all core types (DictEntry, DictPhysics, stacks, dictionary state); the central header most other files include.
  • vm_api.h — external VM API surface.
  • vm_host.h, vm_debug.h, startup.h, version.h — host integration, debug utilities, startup sequencing, version string.
  • cli.h, repl.h, io.h, log.h — CLI parsing, REPL loop, I/O, logging.
  • word_registry.h — word registration system shared by every src/word_source/*.c file.
  • compudynamics.h — the generic compudynamics module: tuning-word/config lookups (cd_tuning_word(), cd_tuning_vm()) consumed by ssm_jacquard.c.

Memory / blocks

  • memory_management.h, dictionary_management.h — dictionary allocator and search.
  • block_subsystem.h, blkcfg.h, blkio.h, blkio_factory.h — logical→ physical block mapper and pluggable block I/O backends (file/RAM).
  • platform_alloc.h, platform_lock.h, platform_time.h — platform abstraction shims (hosted vs. kernel allocation/locking/timing).

Physics-driven adaptive runtime (7 feedback loops)

  • physics_runtime.h — main physics coordinator.
  • physics_hotwords_cache.h — Loop #1, execution-heat hot-words cache.
  • physics_metadata.h — per-word DictPhysics metadata tracking.
  • physics_pipelining_metrics.h — Loop #4, word-transition prediction.
  • physics_execution_hooks.h — execution instrumentation hook points.
  • rolling_window_of_truth.h, rolling_window_knobs.h — Loop #2 circular execution-history buffer and its tuning knobs.
  • inference_engine.h — Loops #5/#6, window-width and decay-slope statistical inference.
  • dictionary_heat_optimization.h — Loop #1 heat counters.
  • ssm_jacquard.h — L8 Jacquard steady-state mode selector.
  • doe_metrics.h — Design of Experiments (2^7 factorial) metrics.
  • profiler.h — performance profiling hooks.

Arithmetic / codegen

  • q48_16.h — Q48.16 deterministic fixed-point arithmetic (used instead of IEEE-754 float specifically to keep cross-architecture behavior bit-identical).
  • math_portable.h — portable math helpers.
  • arch_detect.h, starforth_config.h — architecture detection and the build-flag fallback-default layer (used when a .c file is compiled by hand without make).
  • vm_asm_opt.h, vm_asm_opt_arm64.h, vm_asm_opt_riscv64.h, vm_inner_interp_asm.h, vm_inner_interp_arm64.h, vm_inner_interp_riscv64.h — per-architecture assembler-optimized inner interpreter (USE_ASM_OPT=1).

See include/starkernel/README.md for the bare-metal kernel headers.