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LithosAnanake/include/starkernel
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the boot path, since vt100.c/console.c are superseded by the Console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/starkernel/

Headers for LithosAnanke, the bare-metal UEFI kernel (src/starkernel/). Built only via Makefile.starkernel; gated by __STARKERNEL__ when shared with hosted code.

  • uefi.h — UEFI protocol/type definitions consumed by the loader.
  • elf64.h, elf_loader.h — ELF64 parsing and kernel-image loading.
  • boot_info_offsets.h — struct-offset constants shared between the assembly bootstrap and the C boot path.
  • arch.h, apic.h, timer.h — architecture init, APIC interrupt controller, timer (TSC/HPET/APIC, 100 Hz heartbeat).
  • console.h, framebuffer.h, vt100.h — UART 16550 console, framebuffer driver, and VT100 terminal emulation over the framebuffer.
  • pmm.h, vmm.h, kmalloc.h — physical memory manager (bitmap allocator), 4-level x86_64 paging, kernel heap allocator.
  • pci.h, virtio_blk.h — PCI enumeration and the VirtIO block device driver (disk backend for the kernel block subsystem).
  • capsule.h, capsule_birth.h, capsule_loader.h, capsule_run.h, capsule_vm_physics.h, capsule_generated.h — capsule system types, birth protocol, physics-runtime capsule bindings, and the build-time- generated capsule directory (see tools/mkcapsule.c).
  • kernel_args.h, cmdline.h — boot-time kernel argument parsing (starforth.cfg / command line).
  • repl.h — kernel REPL.
  • log.h, doe_log.h — kernel logging and DoE metrics logging.
  • q48_16.h — kernel-build copy of Q48.16 fixed-point arithmetic.
  • xxhash64.h — content-addressing hash used for capsule IDs.
  • hal_memory.h — hardware-abstraction-layer memory interface.

Subdirectories:

  • hal/ — top-level hardware-abstraction-layer interface.
  • vm/ — kernel VM subsystem headers (capsule arena, parity logging, bootstrap wiring).
  • freestanding/ — minimal libc-shim headers (assert.h, ctype.h, errno.h, inttypes.h, math.h, sched.h, signal.h, stdio.h, stdlib.h, string.h, time.h, sys/time.h, sys/types.h) for building shared VM code in the freestanding kernel environment, where no real libc is available.