resilience.md: steps 1-4 of the ladder are built — supervision, exit
reasons, restart with backoff, crash-loop caps, all proven by scenario;
what remains is scope, not mechanism. README statuses follow. drivers.md
gains the driver-contract section (harness, hello, crash-freely). The
M19-M20 plan pre-settles three things the loop would otherwise have had
to decide alone: the memory-map pass-through for apertures, the manager
spawning 'discovery' from M20.1, and hid[8] riding ChildAdded for ACPI
string identity until the FDT widening.
system/services/acpi and system/services/fdt exist as documented
placeholders (silent clean-exit mains; the headers say exactly what each
becomes and why). The build's -Ddiscovery=acpi|fdt option fills the
ramdisk's neutral 'discovery' slot — the device manager will spawn
"discovery" by that name in M20.3 and never learn which firmware it is
on (m19-m20-plan.md decision 7). x86 defaults to acpi; the aarch64
target flips the default when it lands.
Discovery is one swappable process per firmware (acpi service on x86, an
fdt service on the Pis); everything at and above the device-manager
protocol stays generic. The manager owns the tree as data and never
touches hardware — firmware bytecode runs in a crashable, supervised
discoverer. Flagged now: hid[8] cannot hold an FDT compatible string,
and cross-firmware protocols are named by domain (power, not ACPI).
Battery, AC, lid, and the power button ride the acpi service as reported
children with small class drivers — the xHCI split repeated. QEMU can
only prove the power-button path (system_powerdown injects the real fixed
event), so battery/EC are interface-complete and hardware-validated on
the laptop. Per-device power states (D-states, suspend/resume) stay out
of scope: suspend has the shape of a lifecycle signal every driver must
answer, and it has no consumer until laptop sleep.
Daniel Samson