Placeholder discovery services and the -Ddiscovery build option

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.

build.zig

@@ -342,6 +342,21 @@ pub fn build(b: *std.Build) void {
     // A test fixture, not a real driver: hellos to the device manager, then faults —
     // what the driver-restart scenario drives the crash-loop cap with.
     const crash_test_exe = addUserBinary(b, kernel_target, runtime_module, posix_module, mmio_module, xkeyboard_config_module, acpi_ids_module, "crash-test", "system/services/crash-test/crash-test.zig");
+    const device_list_exe = addUserBinary(b, kernel_target, runtime_module, posix_module, mmio_module, xkeyboard_config_module, acpi_ids_module, "device-list", "system/services/device-list/device-list.zig");
+    // The discovery service: one swappable process per firmware
+    // (docs/m19-m20-plan.md decision 7), bundled under the neutral ramdisk name
+    // "discovery" so the device manager never learns which firmware it is on.
+    // x86 boots describe hardware with ACPI; the Raspberry Pis hand over a
+    // flattened device tree — the aarch64 target flips the default when it
+    // lands (docs/arm.md). Both are placeholders until M20.1 (acpi) and the
+    // ARM bring-up (fdt).
+    const Discovery = enum { acpi, fdt };
+    const discovery = b.option(Discovery, "discovery", "Which discovery service fills the ramdisk's 'discovery' slot (default: acpi)") orelse Discovery.acpi;
+    const discovery_source: []const u8 = switch (discovery) {
+        .acpi => "system/services/acpi/acpi.zig",
+        .fdt => "system/services/fdt/fdt.zig",
+    };
+    const discovery_exe = addUserBinary(b, kernel_target, runtime_module, posix_module, mmio_module, xkeyboard_config_module, acpi_ids_module, "discovery", discovery_source);
     const device_manager_exe = addUserBinary(b, kernel_target, runtime_module, posix_module, mmio_module, xkeyboard_config_module, acpi_ids_module, "device-manager", "system/services/device-manager/device-manager.zig");
     // The input service and its exercisers: the fan-out server, a hardware-free synthetic
     // source, and a subscriber that doubles as the `input` test's oracle. See docs/input.md.
@@ -375,6 +390,10 @@ pub fn build(b: *std.Build) void {
     mk_run.addFileArg(usb_xhci_bus_exe.getEmittedBin());
     mk_run.addArg("crash-test");
     mk_run.addFileArg(crash_test_exe.getEmittedBin());
+    mk_run.addArg("device-list");
+    mk_run.addFileArg(device_list_exe.getEmittedBin());
+    mk_run.addArg("discovery");
+    mk_run.addFileArg(discovery_exe.getEmittedBin());
     mk_run.addArg("device-manager");
     mk_run.addFileArg(device_manager_exe.getEmittedBin());
     mk_run.addArg("input");

docs/device-manager.md

@@ -4,8 +4,13 @@
 with its deadline, supervised spawn, restart with backoff, and the crash-loop
 cap are in — usb-xhci-bus is the first conforming driver, and the
 `driver-restart` scenario proves fault → backoff → re-claim → cap end to end.
-Tree reports (M18.2) and the application surface (M18.3) remain design. The
+Tree reports are built too (M18.2, 2026-07-13): the xHCI driver scans its
-primitives underneath are real ([process-management.md](process-management.md):
+root-hub ports and reports each connected device (`child_added`); the manager
+mirrors them and prunes a dead reporter's children, and the `usb-report`
+scenario proves report → prune → respawn → re-report. The application surface is built (M18.3, 2026-07-13):
+`enumerate` and `subscribe` over IPC, with `device-list` as the first client —
+the manager is now the one answer to "what devices exist" for applications.
+The primitives underneath are real ([process-management.md](process-management.md):
 spawn/supervise/kill/exit-notification; [driver-model.md](driver-model.md): the device
 table as a capability system; [drivers.md](drivers.md): claim/map/IRQ), and the first
 per-device driver spawn works (the device manager matches the xHCI controller by PCI

docs/m17-m18-plan.md

@@ -52,10 +52,19 @@ only when its definition of green holds.
       crash-loop cap; usb-xhci-bus first conforming driver; crash-test fixture
       re-proving claim release each respawn; `driver-restart` scenario;
       maximum_tasks 16→32 — the sweep was overflowing the pool; suite 52/52)
-- [ ] **merge** `feat/device-manager` → main, push
+- [x] **merge** `feat/device-manager` → main, push (merged 2026-07-13)
-- [ ] **M18.2** — xHCI port scan + tree reports (branch `feat/usb-xhci-bus`)
+- [x] **M18.2** — xHCI port scan + tree reports (child_added/child_removed in
-- [ ] **M18.3** — app surface: enumerate/subscribe + device-list
+      the protocol; the manager's child mirror with death-pruning; xHCI maps the
-- [ ] **merge** `feat/usb-xhci-bus` → main, push — **loop ends here**
+      register BAR — resource 0 is ECAM — reads CAPLENGTH/HCSPARAMS1, scans
+      PORTSC, reports connected ports with speed-class identity; `usb-report`
+      scenario proves report → prune → respawn → re-report; suite 53/53)
+- [x] **M18.3** — app surface: enumerate/subscribe over IPC (subscriber
+      endpoint rides as the call's capability; events are the same structs the
+      buses send); device-list first client; protocol capped at the kernel's
+      IPC MESSAGE_MAXIMUM (256); the startUserTask debug print removed — it
+      sheared concurrent serial lines and was the scenario-flake root cause;
+      `device-list` scenario; suite 54/54)
+- [x] **merge** `feat/usb-xhci-bus` → main, push (merged 2026-07-13) — **plan complete**
 
 ---
 

docs/m19-m20-plan.md

@@ -0,0 +1,187 @@
+# M19–M20 execution plan: discovery migration
+
+The operational plan for [device-manager.md](device-manager.md)'s increment 8:
+discovery leaves the kernel — a **pci-bus driver** (M19) and an **acpi service**
+(M20), with the kernel's device enumeration retired behind them. Same rules as
+[m17-m18-plan.md](m17-m18-plan.md): one phase at a time, each green before the
+next; this file is the build order and the checklist.
+
+**Definition of green, every phase:** `zig build` clean, `zig build test` clean,
+`python3 test/qemu_test.py` passes (existing scenarios plus the phase's new
+one), and the relevant design doc updated. Commit per green phase (no co-author
+trailers). The full suite is the regression net — the existing
+`driver-restart` / `usb-report` / `device-list` / `input` scenarios must stay
+green *through* the migration, which is the whole point: the system must not be
+able to tell who enumerated it.
+
+**Workflow:** dedicated worktree; branches off `main` — `feat/pci-bus`
+(M19.0–19.3), `feat/acpi-service` (M20.1–20.3); auto-merge to main when a
+branch is green; keep branches; push everything.
+
+## Settled decisions (2026-07-13 — veto before the loop starts)
+
+1. **What "retiring the kernel scan" means.** The kernel keeps, forever, the
+   parses it needs before user space exists: RSDP/XSDT location, MADT (SMP),
+   the HPET table (the tick), FADT + the AML `\_S5` evaluation (poweroff — the
+   power tests prove it), and MCFG (the host bridge node). What retires is
+   **device enumeration**: the ECAM function walk (M19.3) and the DSDT/SSDT
+   namespace walk that builds device nodes (M20.3). The AML module stays a
+   shared build module compiled into both the kernel (for `\_S5`) and the acpi
+   service (for everything else) — same source, two builds, no fork.
+2. **Bridge apertures come from the firmware memory map, not AML.** Registered
+   PCI functions carry BAR resources, and containment demands the bridge own
+   windows that cover them. The apertures are derived kernel-side from the
+   boot memory map's MMIO holes (regions that are neither RAM nor tables) —
+   mechanical, AML-free, and available at boot regardless of what later moved
+   to user space. (The bridge today carries only ECAM + bus range; this is the
+   prerequisite M19.0 exists for.)
+3. **`device_register` becomes idempotent on exact match.** A re-registration
+   with identical (parent, class, resources) returns the existing id instead
+   of appending. The kernel table has no unregister, so without this a
+   restarted registering bus would duplicate its children on every respawn —
+   idempotence makes restart-and-re-report safe for every future bus, not just
+   PCI.
+4. **The manager matches from reports.** `ChildAdded` gains a `device_id`
+   field (the kernel-registered id, `no_device` for unregistered leaves like
+   USB ports). After the M19.3 flip, PCI driver matching keys off reported
+   identity (the class triple) instead of the manager's boot-time snapshot —
+   the snapshot match remains only for what the kernel still seeds. One flip
+   phase changes both sides at once so no device is ever matched twice.
+5. **The acpi service's authority is one node.** The kernel publishes an
+   `acpi-tables` device: memory resources covering the table blobs plus a
+   broad `io_port` resource — the documented trust grant to exactly one
+   process (AML OperationRegions reach EC/PM ports; the claim-gated
+   io_read/io_write calls already exist). The service claims it, maps the
+   tables, and runs the shared AML module in ring 3 behind a `Hal` backed by
+   `mmio_map` + `io_read`/`io_write`.
+6. **Both new processes are protocol drivers** under the manager: hello,
+   supervision, restart with backoff — all inherited from M18.1 for free.
+   Registration idempotence (decision 3) is what makes their restarts sound.
+7. **Firmware neutrality is the contract** (2026-07-13). The generic layer is
+   everything at and above the device-manager protocol — descriptors,
+   containment, reports, matching, supervision — and none of it may become
+   x86-specific. Discovery is one swappable process per firmware: the acpi
+   service on x86; an **fdt service** on the Raspberry Pis (claims a
+   `devicetree-blob` node, reports children from the flattened device tree —
+   pure data, no bytecode, no port grant, strictly simpler than ACPI). The
+   manager owns the tree as *data* and touches no hardware, ever — AML runs in
+   a crashable, supervised discoverer precisely so a firmware-bytecode fault
+   can never take down the supervisor. Two consequences recorded now:
+   `DeviceDescriptor`'s 8-byte `hid` cannot hold an FDT `compatible` string
+   ("brcm,bcm2835-aux-uart") — identity widens before the fdt service exists;
+   and cross-firmware surfaces are named by **domain, not firmware** (M21
+   defines a *power* protocol, not an "ACPI events" protocol — PSCI/mailbox
+   sources feed the same subscribers on ARM). **Landed early (2026-07-13):**
+   both services exist as placeholders (system/services/acpi, system/services/
+   fdt) and the build's `-Ddiscovery=acpi|fdt` option fills the ramdisk's
+   neutral `discovery` slot — the manager will spawn "discovery" by that name
+   in M20.3 and never learn which firmware it is on.
+
+## Status
+
+- [ ] **M19.0** — prerequisites on `feat/pci-bus`: bridge MMIO apertures from
+      the memory-map holes; `device_register` idempotence (+ kernel unit
+      checks); `ChildAdded.device_id`; archive note on m17-m18-plan.md.
+- [ ] **M19.1** — pci-bus driver, scan only: claim the host bridge, map the
+      ECAM window, walk bus/device/function headers, log what it finds.
+      Scenario `pci-scan`: the kernel test compares the driver's reported count
+      against the broker table's `pci_device` count — equivalence, per class.
+- [ ] **M19.2** — register + report: each function registered under the bridge
+      (config-space slice + BARs, `pci_class` in the descriptor), reported with
+      `child_added { device_id, identity = class triple }`. Manager mirrors;
+      spawn-from-reports stays **off**. Scenario extends `pci-scan`:
+      registered ids resolve, no duplicates after a forced driver restart
+      (idempotence proven end to end).
+- [ ] **M19.3** — the flip: kernel `enumeratePci` call removed (bridge node
+      stays); manager matches PCI drivers from reports. One commit. The
+      existing xHCI scenarios (`driver-restart`, `usb-report`, `device-list`)
+      are the assertion — xhci must come up spawned off a pci-bus report, and
+      the suite must not be able to tell the difference. discovery.md updated.
+- [ ] **merge** `feat/pci-bus` → main, push.
+- [ ] **M20.1** — acpi service, parse only (fills the existing placeholder at
+      system/services/acpi/acpi.zig): kernel publishes `acpi-tables`
+      (decision 5) — memory over the table blobs, the broad io_port grant, and
+      **the SCI as an irq resource** (from the FADT; unused until M21 but free
+      to record now). The service claims it, maps the blobs, runs the shared
+      AML module in ring 3, logs the namespace device count and `_HID`s.
+      Scenario `acpi-parse`: user-space count equals the kernel walk's count.
+- [ ] **M20.2** — register + report: namespace devices with `_HID` + `_CRS`
+      resources registered under `acpi-tables` (its io_port + the memory-map
+      holes give containment), reported to the manager. Spawn-from-reports for
+      ACPI matches stays off. Scenario: the reported set includes the PS/2
+      keyboard and mouse nodes with their IRQ resources.
+- [ ] **M20.3** — the flip: kernel DSDT device-node building removed (static
+      tables + `\_S5` stay, decision 1); manager matches ACPI-hid drivers
+      (ps2-bus) from reports. The `input` and `device-manager` scenarios are
+      the assertion. discovery.md + acpi.md + device-manager.md updated;
+      device-manager.md increment 8 closed.
+- [ ] **merge** `feat/acpi-service` → main, push — **loop ends here**.
+
+---
+
+## Phase notes
+
+**M19.0 apertures:** the boot memory map already crosses the handoff
+([boot-handoff]); the holes computation belongs where the bridge node is built
+(`parseMcfg`). Sanity-check on QEMU q35: the xHCI BAR (`0xc0000000`-region
+values seen in the M18 logs) must land inside a derived aperture, asserted in
+the kernel unit test.
+
+**M19.1 scanning without owning config access twice:** the driver reads config
+space through its ECAM mmio_map grant of the *bridge* window — the same bytes
+the kernel walk read. Vendor-id `0xFFFF` skip, header-type multifunction rule,
+no bridge recursion (matches the kernel's current single-segment walk).
+
+**M19.2 BAR sizing:** the classic size probe (write all-ones, read mask,
+restore) is deferred — the BARs' current programmed values and types are
+enough for containment-checked registration at bring-up; sizing lands with the
+first driver that needs to *move* a BAR. Log what is registered so the
+scenario can assert it.
+
+**M19.3 what the manager still seeds from the snapshot:** everything the
+kernel still enumerates (timers, ACPI nodes until M20.3). The PCI arm of
+`pciDriverFor` switches source; `driverFor` doesn't move until M20.3.
+
+**M20.1 Hal in ring 3:** `mapMmio` → `device.mmioMap` over the claimed
+acpi-tables node (plus a table-offset map for blobs); `pioRead`/`pioWrite` →
+`device.ioRead`/`ioWrite` against its io_port resource. The interpreter cannot
+tell it moved — that is the assertion of `acpi-parse`.
+
+**M20.2 containment for `_CRS`:** io ports fall inside the node's broad
+io_port resource; MMIO windows (HPET, LAPIC ranges some firmwares list) fall
+inside the memory-map holes added to the node in M20.1. Anything that doesn't
+fit is logged and skipped, loudly — bring-up honesty over silent drops.
+
+**M20.3 ps2 ordering:** ps2-bus binds nodes the acpi service now reports, so
+its spawn moves behind the report (the manager's matching handles this once
+the source flips); the `input` scenario proves the keyboard still types.
+
+**Explicitly out of scope:** PCI bridge recursion (single segment, flat bus
+walk stays); BAR reprogramming/sizing; disk/PCIe hotplug; interrupt routing
+changes (`_PRT` stays wherever it is today); the USB descriptor track;
+multi-segment ECAM; per-device power states (D-states, `_PSx`/`_PRx`,
+suspend/resume — a future *lifecycle-vocabulary* extension, since "suspend"
+has the shape of a signal every driver must answer, and it has no consumer
+until laptop sleep); CPU P/C-states.
+
+## M21 preview — ACPI events + system power (planned next, not in this loop)
+
+The acpi service grows the event side (settled direction 2026-07-13; detailed
+phases when M20 lands):
+
+- **21.1 SCI + fixed events**: irq_bind the SCI (the resource M20.1 already
+  records), read/clear PM1 status, publish the power-button event to
+  subscribers (the same pub/sub shape the manager uses).
+- **21.2 GPE + Notify**: Notify dispatch in the shared AML interpreter, GPE
+  block handling, `Notify(device, code)` published per reported node. The
+  acpi service is a **bus** here: battery (PNP0C0A), AC (ACPI0003), and lid
+  (PNP0C0D) nodes are reported children; small class drivers bind them and
+  speak an evaluate/subscribe protocol to the service — the xHCI split,
+  repeated. The embedded controller (`_Qxx` queries) rides this phase;
+  QEMU emulates no battery/EC, so those paths are interface-complete and
+  validated on real hardware (the laptop is the win condition), while the
+  plumbing is proven by the power button.
+- **21.3 the capstone**: QEMU `system_powerdown` → acpi service event → init
+  runs the M17 stop sequence over its children → kernel `\_S5` — orderly
+  shutdown as the scenario that proves lifecycle + events compose. (The
+  harness grows a QMP poke to inject the event.)

library/runtime/service.zig

@@ -22,8 +22,10 @@ pub const Callbacks = struct {
     /// Return false to abort startup (the process exits).
     init: ?*const fn (endpoint: ipc.Handle) bool = null,
     /// One protocol request from `sender` (a task id): write the reply into
-    /// `reply`, return its length. The zero-length ping never reaches this.
+    /// `reply`, return its length. `capability` is the handle the request
-    on_message: *const fn (message: []const u8, reply: []u8, sender: u32) usize,
+    /// carried, if any (M13 cap passing — how a subscriber hands over its
+    /// endpoint). The zero-length ping never reaches this.
+    on_message: *const fn (message: []const u8, reply: []u8, sender: u32, capability: ?ipc.Handle) usize,
     /// A notification that is not a signal — a subscribed exit event, a bound
     /// IRQ, a timer landing. The raw badge; decode with the ipc helpers.
     on_notification: ?*const fn (badge: u64) void = null,
@@ -76,6 +78,6 @@ pub fn run(comptime maximum_message: usize, callbacks: Callbacks) void {
             reply_len = 0; // the universal ping: a zero-length reply, from the harness
             continue;
         }
-        reply_len = callbacks.on_message(receive[0..got.len], &reply_buffer, got.senderTaskId());
+        reply_len = callbacks.on_message(receive[0..got.len], &reply_buffer, got.senderTaskId(), got.cap);
     }
 }

system/drivers/usb-xhci-bus/usb-xhci-bus.zig

@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@
 //! argv[1]; this instance claims that device and no other, so multiple
 //! instances never fight over hardware.
 //!
-//! M18.1 (this increment): a harness service and the first conforming driver of
+//! M18.2 (this increment): after the hello, real hardware — map the xHC's
-//! the device-manager protocol — claim the controller, `hello` the manager
+//! register window (the first memory BAR; resource 0 is the ECAM config
-//! (role, version, assignment) inside its deadline, then serve. Controller
+//! space), read the capability registers, and walk the root-hub ports: one
-//! bring-up (map the MMIO window, reset, port scan) and tree reports
+//! `child_added` report to the manager per connected port, carrying the port
-//! (`child_added` for each connected port) land in M18.2.
+//! number and the PORTSC speed class as identity. No transfer rings yet —
+//! descriptors and USB class matching are the USB track; the connect bit and
+//! speed come straight from PORTSC, which reflects hardware state whether or
+//! not the controller is running.
 
 const std = @import("std");
 const runtime = @import("runtime");
@@ -47,12 +50,16 @@ fn initialise(endpoint: runtime.ipc.Handle) bool {
         return false;
     };
 
-    // The controller's operational registers live behind BAR0, enumerated as
+    // The xHC's registers live behind the first memory BAR. Resource 0 is the
-    // the device's first memory resource.
+    // function's ECAM configuration space (M15), so the walk starts at 1.
-    const register_window = for (descriptor.resources[0..@intCast(descriptor.resource_count)]) |resource| {
+    var register_index: u64 = 0;
-        if (resource.kind == @intFromEnum(device.ResourceKind.memory)) break resource;
+    const register_window = for (descriptor.resources[1..@intCast(descriptor.resource_count)], 1..) |resource, index| {
+        if (resource.kind == @intFromEnum(device.ResourceKind.memory)) {
+            register_index = index;
+            break resource;
+        }
     } else {
-        writeLine("usb-xhci-bus: controller device {d} has no MMIO window\n", .{controller_id});
+        writeLine("usb-xhci-bus: controller device {d} has no register BAR\n", .{controller_id});
         return false;
     };
     writeLine("usb-xhci-bus: claimed controller device {d} (registers at 0x{x}, {d} bytes)\n", .{
@@ -60,6 +67,10 @@ fn initialise(endpoint: runtime.ipc.Handle) bool {
         register_window.start,
         register_window.len,
     });
+    register_base = device.mmioMap(controller_id, register_index) orelse {
+        _ = runtime.system.write("usb-xhci-bus: mmio_map failed\n");
+        return false;
+    };
 
     // The handshake: role, protocol version, assignment — inside the manager's
     // deadline (the lookup retries cover the manager still registering).
@@ -84,14 +95,62 @@ fn initialise(endpoint: runtime.ipc.Handle) bool {
         return false;
     }
     _ = runtime.system.write("usb-xhci-bus: hello acknowledged\n");
+
+    scanPorts(h);
     return true;
 }
 
+var register_base: usize = 0;
+
+/// One 32-bit volatile register read at `offset` from the mapped window.
+fn readRegister(offset: usize) u32 {
+    const register: *volatile u32 = @ptrFromInt(register_base + offset);
+    return register.*;
+}
+
+/// The root-hub port scan: read the capability registers for the port count
+/// and the operational-register offset, then one PORTSC per port. The connect
+/// bit (CCS) and the speed field reflect hardware state directly — no
+/// controller reset or run needed to *see* the devices; driving them needs the
+/// rings (the USB track).
+fn scanPorts(manager: runtime.ipc.Handle) void {
+    // Capability registers: CAPLENGTH is byte 0 of the first dword; HCSPARAMS1
+    // carries MaxPorts in bits 31:24.
+    const capability_length = readRegister(0) & 0xFF;
+    const structural = readRegister(0x04);
+    const maximum_ports: u32 = structural >> 24;
+    writeLine("usb-xhci-bus: {d} root-hub ports\n", .{maximum_ports});
+
+    // PORTSC registers: operational base + 0x400 + 0x10 per port (1-based).
+    var port: u32 = 1;
+    var connected: u32 = 0;
+    while (port <= maximum_ports) : (port += 1) {
+        const port_status = readRegister(capability_length + 0x400 + 0x10 * (port - 1));
+        if (port_status & 1 == 0) continue; // CCS: nothing connected
+        connected += 1;
+        const speed = (port_status >> 10) & 0xF; // the PORTSC port-speed class
+        writeLine("usb-xhci-bus: port {d} connected (speed class {d})\n", .{ port, speed });
+
+        const report = protocol.ChildAdded{
+            .parent = controller_id,
+            .bus_address = port,
+            .identity = speed,
+        };
+        var reply: [protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
+        _ = runtime.ipc.call(manager, std.mem.asBytes(&report), &reply) catch {
+            writeLine("usb-xhci-bus: child report for port {d} failed\n", .{port});
+            continue;
+        };
+    }
+    if (connected == 0) _ = runtime.system.write("usb-xhci-bus: no devices connected\n");
+}
+
 /// No bus protocol to serve yet — transfer requests arrive with the USB track.
-fn onMessage(message: []const u8, reply: []u8, sender: u32) usize {
+fn onMessage(message: []const u8, reply: []u8, sender: u32, capability: ?runtime.ipc.Handle) usize {
     _ = message;
     _ = reply;
     _ = sender;
+    _ = capability;
     return 0;
 }
 

system/kernel/scheduler.zig

@@ -350,8 +350,9 @@ pub fn spawnUserLocked(aspace: u64, entry: u64, user_sp: u64, priority: Priority
 /// context switch and lock release.
 fn startUserTask() void {
     const t = current();
-    var buffer: [96]u8 = undefined;
+    // No serial chatter here: this runs on every spawn, unserialized against
-    architecture.serialWrite(std.fmt.bufPrint(&buffer, "DBG startUserTask ip=0x{x} sp=0x{x} aspace=0x{x} kstack=0x{x}\n", .{ t.user_ip, t.user_sp, t.aspace, t.kstack_top }) catch "");
+    // user-space writes, and its output used to shear concurrent log lines in
+    // half — the largest source of corrupted markers in the QEMU scenarios.
     architecture.jumpToUser(t.user_ip, t.user_sp); // noreturn
 }
 

system/kernel/tests.zig

@@ -140,6 +140,10 @@ pub fn run(case: []const u8, boot_information: *const BootInformation) void {
         signalsTest(boot_information);
     } else if (eql(case, "driver-restart")) {
         driverRestartTest(boot_information);
+    } else if (eql(case, "usb-report")) {
+        usbReportTest(boot_information);
+    } else if (eql(case, "device-list")) {
+        deviceListTest(boot_information);
     } else if (eql(case, "initial-ramdisk")) {
         initialRamdiskTest(boot_information);
     } else if (eql(case, "vfs")) {
@@ -1694,6 +1698,73 @@ fn driverRestartTest(boot_information: *const BootInformation) void {
     result();
 }
 
+/// M18.2: bus tree reports, end to end. The manager (test-usb-restart mode)
+/// spawns the xHCI driver; the driver maps its BAR, scans the root-hub ports,
+/// and reports the two QEMU devices; the manager mirrors them, kills the
+/// reporter (the test trigger), prunes both children, restarts the driver with
+/// backoff, and the respawned instance re-claims, re-scans, and re-reports.
+/// The harness's ordered expect regex is the assertion; this test only
+/// orchestrates the spawn.
+fn usbReportTest(boot_information: *const BootInformation) void {
+    log("DANOS-TEST-BEGIN: usb-report\n", .{});
+    if (boot_information.initial_ramdisk_len == 0) {
+        check("bootloader handed over an initial_ramdisk", false);
+        result();
+        return;
+    }
+    const image = @as([*]const u8, @ptrFromInt(boot_handoff.physicalToVirtual(boot_information.initial_ramdisk_base)))[0..boot_information.initial_ramdisk_len];
+    const rd = initial_ramdisk.Reader.init(image) orelse {
+        check("initial_ramdisk image is valid", false);
+        result();
+        return;
+    };
+
+    process.setInitialRamdisk(image);
+    var manager: u32 = 0;
+    var i: u32 = 0;
+    while (i < rd.count) : (i += 1) {
+        const item = rd.entry(i) orelse continue;
+        if (!eql(item.name, "device-manager")) continue;
+        manager = process.spawnProcessSupervised(item.blob, 4, &.{ "device-manager", "test-usb-restart" }, scheduler.currentId(), null) catch 0;
+        break;
+    }
+    check("device-manager spawned in test-usb-restart mode", manager != 0);
+    result();
+}
+
+/// M18.3: the application surface. device-list enumerates the manager's tree
+/// over IPC, subscribes with its endpoint as a capability, and prints every
+/// published event; the manager's delayed test-kill of the reporter produces a
+/// removed/added storm the subscriber must observe. The harness's ordered
+/// expect regex is the assertion.
+fn deviceListTest(boot_information: *const BootInformation) void {
+    log("DANOS-TEST-BEGIN: device-list\n", .{});
+    if (boot_information.initial_ramdisk_len == 0) {
+        check("bootloader handed over an initial_ramdisk", false);
+        result();
+        return;
+    }
+    const image = @as([*]const u8, @ptrFromInt(boot_handoff.physicalToVirtual(boot_information.initial_ramdisk_base)))[0..boot_information.initial_ramdisk_len];
+    const rd = initial_ramdisk.Reader.init(image) orelse {
+        check("initial_ramdisk image is valid", false);
+        result();
+        return;
+    };
+
+    process.setInitialRamdisk(image);
+    var manager: u32 = 0;
+    var i: u32 = 0;
+    while (i < rd.count) : (i += 1) {
+        const item = rd.entry(i) orelse continue;
+        if (!eql(item.name, "device-manager")) continue;
+        manager = process.spawnProcessSupervised(item.blob, 4, &.{ "device-manager", "test-usb-restart" }, scheduler.currentId(), null) catch 0;
+        break;
+    }
+    check("device-manager spawned in test-usb-restart mode", manager != 0);
+    check("device-list spawned", spawnNamed(rd, "device-list"));
+    result();
+}
+
 /// The whole user-side surface at once: spawn process-test's supervisor role,
 /// which — entirely from ring 3 — creates an exit endpoint, spawns its two
 /// children supervised, sees them in process_enumerate, kills them (one blocked,

system/services/acpi/acpi.zig

@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+//! /system/services/acpi — the ACPI discovery service: the x86 firmware
+//! interpreter, moved out of ring 0 (docs/m19-m20-plan.md, M20). **Placeholder:
+//! not implemented until M20.1** — it exists so the build's `-Ddiscovery`
+//! option has both of its values and the ramdisk's neutral `discovery` slot is
+//! wired before the implementation lands.
+//!
+//! What it becomes (the plan's decisions 5 and 7): claim the `acpi-tables`
+//! node the kernel publishes (table blobs + the broad io_port grant + the SCI),
+//! map the tables, and run the **shared AML module** in ring 3 behind a `Hal`
+//! backed by `mmio_map` and `io_read`/`io_write` — the interpreter cannot tell
+//! it moved. Then the bus-driver shape: `device_register` the namespace
+//! devices (`_HID`, `_CRS` resources, containment against the node's
+//! apertures), report each to the device manager, stay resident under its
+//! supervision. M21 grows the event side on the same claim: the SCI, PM1 fixed
+//! events, GPEs, Notify — published through the domain-named power protocol,
+//! never an "ACPI events" protocol.
+
+const runtime = @import("runtime");
+
+pub fn main() void {
+    // Not implemented: exit cleanly and silently (a bare spawn by the
+    // initial-ramdisk sweep must not derange other tests' markers). The
+    // supervisor reads a clean exit as "meant to stop" — correct for a
+    // placeholder.
+}
+
+pub const panic = runtime.panic;
+comptime {
+    _ = &runtime.start._start; // pull the runtime entry shim into the image
+}

system/services/device-list/device-list.zig

@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+//! device-list — the `ps` analog for the device tree (docs/device-manager.md
+//! M18.3): asks the device manager for the tree over IPC, prints it, then
+//! subscribes and prints every published add/remove event. The manager is the
+//! one answer to "what devices exist" for user space; nothing here touches a
+//! device_* system call.
+
+const std = @import("std");
+const runtime = @import("runtime");
+const protocol = runtime.device_manager_protocol;
+
+fn writeLine(comptime fmt: []const u8, arguments: anytype) void {
+    var line: [96]u8 = undefined;
+    _ = runtime.system.write(std.fmt.bufPrint(&line, fmt, arguments) catch return);
+}
+
+pub fn main() void {
+    var manager: ?runtime.ipc.Handle = null;
+    var tries: u32 = 0;
+    while (manager == null and tries < 200) : (tries += 1) {
+        manager = runtime.ipc.lookup(.device_manager);
+        if (manager == null) runtime.system.sleep(20);
+    }
+    const h = manager orelse {
+        _ = runtime.system.write("device-list: no device manager\n");
+        return;
+    };
+
+    // The snapshot — polled briefly, because at boot the bus drivers may still
+    // be scanning: an empty first answer usually just means "too early".
+    var reply: [protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
+    var count: u32 = 0;
+    var length: usize = 0;
+    tries = 0;
+    while (tries < 20) : (tries += 1) {
+        const request = protocol.Enumerate{};
+        length = runtime.ipc.call(h, std.mem.asBytes(&request), &reply) catch 0;
+        if (length >= @sizeOf(protocol.EnumerateReply)) {
+            count = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.EnumerateReply, reply[0..@sizeOf(protocol.EnumerateReply)]).count;
+            if (count != 0) break;
+        }
+        runtime.system.sleep(100);
+    }
+    writeLine("device-list: {d} devices\n", .{count});
+    var offset: usize = @sizeOf(protocol.EnumerateReply);
+    var index: u32 = 0;
+    while (index < count and offset + @sizeOf(protocol.ChildEntry) <= length) : (index += 1) {
+        const entry = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.ChildEntry, reply[offset..][0..@sizeOf(protocol.ChildEntry)]);
+        writeLine("device-list: device {d} port {d} identity {d}\n", .{ entry.parent, entry.bus_address, entry.identity });
+        offset += @sizeOf(protocol.ChildEntry);
+    }
+
+    // The subscription: our endpoint rides as the call's capability; events
+    // arrive as buffered messages carrying the same structs the bus sends.
+    const endpoint = runtime.ipc.createIpcEndpoint() orelse {
+        _ = runtime.system.write("device-list: no endpoint\n");
+        return;
+    };
+    const subscribe = protocol.Subscribe{};
+    _ = runtime.ipc.callCap(h, std.mem.asBytes(&subscribe), &reply, endpoint) catch {
+        _ = runtime.system.write("device-list: subscribe failed\n");
+        return;
+    };
+    _ = runtime.system.write("device-list: subscribed\n");
+
+    var receive: [protocol.message_maximum]u8 = undefined;
+    while (true) {
+        const got = runtime.ipc.replyWait(endpoint, &.{}, &receive, null);
+        if (!got.isMessage() or got.len < 1) continue;
+        switch (receive[0]) {
+            @intFromEnum(protocol.Operation.child_added) => {
+                if (got.len < protocol.child_added_size) continue;
+                const event = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.ChildAdded, receive[0..protocol.child_added_size]);
+                writeLine("device-list: added (device {d} port {d})\n", .{ event.parent, event.bus_address });
+            },
+            @intFromEnum(protocol.Operation.child_removed) => {
+                if (got.len < protocol.child_removed_size) continue;
+                const event = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.ChildRemoved, receive[0..protocol.child_removed_size]);
+                writeLine("device-list: removed (device {d} port {d})\n", .{ event.parent, event.bus_address });
+            },
+            else => {},
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+pub const panic = runtime.panic;
+comptime {
+    _ = &runtime.start._start; // pull the runtime entry shim into the image
+}

system/services/device-manager/device-manager-protocol.zig

@@ -19,10 +19,13 @@ pub const Role = enum(u8) {
     device = 2,
 };
 
-/// The message kinds. `child_added`/`child_removed` land in M18.2;
+/// The message kinds.
-/// `enumerate`/`subscribe` in M18.3.
 pub const Operation = enum(u8) {
     hello = 1,
+    child_added = 2,
+    child_removed = 3,
+    enumerate = 4,
+    subscribe = 5,
 };
 
 /// `Hello.device_id` for a driver that serves no enumerated device (a test
@@ -54,5 +57,83 @@ pub const HelloReply = extern struct {
 
 pub const reply_size = @sizeOf(HelloReply);
 
+/// A bus driver reporting one device it discovered behind its controller
+/// (docs/device-manager.md "the tree"). Identity is the bus's native language —
+/// for USB a port-speed class; the (class, subclass, protocol) triple joins it
+/// once control transfers exist (the USB track). The manager mirrors the child
+/// into its tree; when the reporting driver dies, the manager prunes everything
+/// it reported (the children describe protocol state that died with it) and the
+/// restarted instance rediscovers and re-reports.
+pub const ChildAdded = extern struct {
+    operation: u8 = @intFromEnum(Operation.child_added),
+    reserved0: u8 = 0,
+    reserved1: u16 = 0,
+    reserved2: u32 = 0,
+    /// The reporting driver's own device (the controller) — the child's parent.
+    parent: u64,
+    /// Where on the bus (for USB: the root port number, 1-based).
+    bus_address: u64,
+    /// Bus-specific identity (for USB: the PORTSC port-speed class).
+    identity: u64,
+};
+
+pub const child_added_size = @sizeOf(ChildAdded);
+
+/// A bus driver reporting a device gone (hot-unplug). Not yet sent by any
+/// driver — the port scan has no unplug interrupt — but the manager handles it;
+/// death-pruning covers removal until hotplug lands.
+pub const ChildRemoved = extern struct {
+    operation: u8 = @intFromEnum(Operation.child_removed),
+    reserved0: u8 = 0,
+    reserved1: u16 = 0,
+    reserved2: u32 = 0,
+    parent: u64,
+    bus_address: u64,
+};
+
+pub const child_removed_size = @sizeOf(ChildRemoved);
+
+/// The manager's answer to a tree report.
+pub const ReportReply = extern struct {
+    status: i32,
+    reserved: u32 = 0,
+};
+
+/// An application asking for the tree (M18.3): the reply is an EnumerateReply
+/// header followed by `count` ChildEntry records.
+pub const Enumerate = extern struct {
+    operation: u8 = @intFromEnum(Operation.enumerate),
+    reserved0: u8 = 0,
+    reserved1: u16 = 0,
+    reserved2: u32 = 0,
+};
+
+pub const EnumerateReply = extern struct {
+    status: i32,
+    /// ChildEntry records following this header.
+    count: u32,
+};
+
+pub const ChildEntry = extern struct {
+    parent: u64,
+    bus_address: u64,
+    identity: u64,
+};
+
+/// An application subscribing to published add/remove events (the input-service
+/// pattern): the subscriber's endpoint rides as the call's **capability**, and
+/// events arrive on it as buffered messages whose payload is the same
+/// ChildAdded / ChildRemoved struct the bus drivers send — one encoding, both
+/// directions.
+pub const Subscribe = extern struct {
+    operation: u8 = @intFromEnum(Operation.subscribe),
+    reserved0: u8 = 0,
+    reserved1: u16 = 0,
+    reserved2: u32 = 0,
+};
+
 /// Upper bound on any message in this protocol — sizes the endpoint buffers.
-pub const message_maximum = 64;
+/// Capped by the kernel's IPC MESSAGE_MAXIMUM (256): an EnumerateReply carries
+/// up to ten ChildEntry records per call, plenty for the mirror's current
+/// bounds; paging joins the protocol if a tree ever outgrows one message.
+pub const message_maximum = 256;

system/services/device-manager/device-manager.zig

@@ -106,6 +106,84 @@ const maximum_drivers = 16;
 var drivers: [maximum_drivers]Driver = .{Driver{}} ** maximum_drivers;
 var manager_endpoint: runtime.ipc.Handle = 0;
 var test_restart_mode = false;
+var test_usb_restart_mode = false;
+var test_usb_killed = false;
+var test_kill_pid: u32 = 0;
+var test_kill_due_ns: u64 = 0;
+
+/// The application subscribers (M18.3, the input-service pattern): endpoints
+/// handed over as capabilities, each receiving every child add/remove as a
+/// buffered message. A subscriber whose endpoint stops accepting (it died) is
+/// dropped on the failed send.
+const maximum_subscribers = 8;
+var subscribers: [maximum_subscribers]?runtime.ipc.Handle = .{null} ** maximum_subscribers;
+
+/// Publish one event (a ChildAdded or ChildRemoved struct, the same encoding
+/// the bus drivers send) to every subscriber.
+fn publishEvent(event: []const u8) void {
+    for (&subscribers) |*slot| {
+        if (slot.*) |handle| {
+            if (!runtime.ipc.send(handle, event)) slot.* = null; // dead subscriber
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// The manager's mirror of what bus drivers report (docs/device-manager.md "the
+/// tree"): the children, keyed by (parent, bus address), each remembering which
+/// driver instance reported it — that is what death-pruning sweeps by.
+const Child = struct {
+    used: bool = false,
+    parent: u64 = 0,
+    bus_address: u64 = 0,
+    identity: u64 = 0,
+    reporter: u32 = 0, // the reporting driver instance's process id
+};
+
+const maximum_children = 32;
+var children: [maximum_children]Child = .{Child{}} ** maximum_children;
+
+/// Record (or refresh) a reported child. Refreshing matters: a restarted bus
+/// driver re-reports what it rediscovers, and the same (parent, port) must not
+/// duplicate.
+fn addChild(parent: u64, bus_address: u64, identity: u64, reporter: u32) bool {
+    var free: ?*Child = null;
+    for (&children) |*child| {
+        if (child.used and child.parent == parent and child.bus_address == bus_address) {
+            child.identity = identity;
+            child.reporter = reporter;
+            return true;
+        }
+        if (!child.used and free == null) free = child;
+    }
+    const slot = free orelse return false;
+    slot.* = .{ .used = true, .parent = parent, .bus_address = bus_address, .identity = identity, .reporter = reporter };
+    return true;
+}
+
+/// Prune every child a dead driver instance reported: the children describe
+/// protocol state (slots, rings) that died with the process — keeping the nodes
+/// would be keeping a lie. The restarted instance rediscovers and re-reports.
+/// Watchers hear the honest story: removed now, added again on rediscovery.
+fn pruneChildrenOf(reporter: u32) void {
+    for (&children) |*child| {
+        if (child.used and child.reporter == reporter) {
+            writeLine("device-manager: child removed (device {d} port {d})\n", .{ child.parent, child.bus_address });
+            child.used = false;
+            const event = protocol.ChildRemoved{ .parent = child.parent, .bus_address = child.bus_address };
+            publishEvent(std.mem.asBytes(&event));
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+/// How many children a driver instance has reported (the test-usb-restart
+/// trigger counts these).
+fn childCountOf(reporter: u32) u32 {
+    var n: u32 = 0;
+    for (&children) |*child| {
+        if (child.used and child.reporter == reporter) n += 1;
+    }
+    return n;
+}
 
 fn driverByProcess(process_id: u32) ?*Driver {
     for (&drivers) |*driver| {
@@ -171,9 +249,11 @@ fn spawnDriver(driver: *Driver) void {
     }
 }
 
-/// A driver died. The exit reason (M17.2) is the whole decision: a clean exit
+/// A driver died. Prune what it reported first — then the exit reason (M17.2)
-/// meant to stop; anything else restarts with backoff until the crash-loop cap.
+/// is the whole restart decision: a clean exit meant to stop; anything else
+/// restarts with backoff until the crash-loop cap.
 fn onDriverExit(driver: *Driver) void {
+    pruneChildrenOf(driver.process_id);
     const reason = runtime.process.exitReason(driver.process_id) orelse .fault;
     if (reason == .exited) {
         driver.state = .stopped;
@@ -201,6 +281,11 @@ fn onDriverExit(driver: *Driver) void {
 /// sweep serves every armed deadline.
 fn sweepDeadlines() void {
     const now = system.clock();
+    if (test_kill_pid != 0 and now >= test_kill_due_ns) {
+        writeLine("device-manager: test mode: killing the reporter\n", .{});
+        _ = system.kill(test_kill_pid);
+        test_kill_pid = 0;
+    }
     for (&drivers) |*driver| {
         if (!driver.used) continue;
         switch (driver.state) {
@@ -260,10 +345,18 @@ fn initialise(endpoint: runtime.ipc.Handle) bool {
     return true;
 }
 
-fn onMessage(message: []const u8, reply: []u8, sender: u32) usize {
+fn onMessage(message: []const u8, reply: []u8, sender: u32, capability: ?runtime.ipc.Handle) usize {
+    if (message.len < 1) return 0;
+    switch (message[0]) {
+        @intFromEnum(protocol.Operation.child_added) => return onChildAdded(message, reply, sender),
+        @intFromEnum(protocol.Operation.child_removed) => return onChildRemoved(message, reply, sender),
+        @intFromEnum(protocol.Operation.enumerate) => return onEnumerate(reply),
+        @intFromEnum(protocol.Operation.subscribe) => return onSubscribe(reply, capability),
+        @intFromEnum(protocol.Operation.hello) => {},
+        else => return 0,
+    }
     if (message.len < protocol.hello_size) return 0;
     const hello = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.Hello, message[0..protocol.hello_size]);
-    if (hello.operation != @intFromEnum(protocol.Operation.hello)) return 0;
 
     var status: i32 = 0;
     if (hello.version != protocol.version) {
@@ -281,6 +374,85 @@ fn onMessage(message: []const u8, reply: []u8, sender: u32) usize {
     return protocol.reply_size;
 }
 
+/// A bus driver reported a discovered device: mirror it, and in
+/// test-usb-restart mode kill the reporter once after its second child — the
+/// deterministic trigger for prune -> backoff -> respawn -> re-report.
+fn onChildAdded(message: []const u8, reply: []u8, sender: u32) usize {
+    if (message.len < protocol.child_added_size) return 0;
+    const report = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.ChildAdded, message[0..protocol.child_added_size]);
+    var status: i32 = 0;
+    if (driverByProcess(sender)) |driver| {
+        if (!addChild(report.parent, report.bus_address, report.identity, sender)) status = -1;
+        writeLine("device-manager: child added (device {d} port {d}, identity {d}) by {s}\n", .{ report.parent, report.bus_address, report.identity, driver.name() });
+        if (status == 0) publishEvent(message[0..protocol.child_added_size]);
+    } else {
+        status = -1;
+    }
+    const report_reply = protocol.ReportReply{ .status = status };
+    @memcpy(reply[0..@sizeOf(protocol.ReportReply)], std.mem.asBytes(&report_reply));
+    if (test_usb_restart_mode and !test_usb_killed and childCountOf(sender) >= 2) {
+        // Delayed, not immediate: the device-list scenario's subscriber needs a
+        // window to enumerate and subscribe before the events start.
+        test_usb_killed = true;
+        test_kill_pid = sender;
+        test_kill_due_ns = system.clock() + 2_000_000_000;
+        _ = system.timerOnce(manager_endpoint, 2100);
+    }
+    return @sizeOf(protocol.ReportReply);
+}
+
+/// A bus driver reported a device gone (hot-unplug; no sender exists yet, but
+/// the handler is protocol-complete — death-pruning covers removal until then).
+fn onChildRemoved(message: []const u8, reply: []u8, sender: u32) usize {
+    if (message.len < protocol.child_removed_size) return 0;
+    const report = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.ChildRemoved, message[0..protocol.child_removed_size]);
+    var status: i32 = -1;
+    for (&children) |*child| {
+        if (child.used and child.parent == report.parent and child.bus_address == report.bus_address and child.reporter == sender) {
+            writeLine("device-manager: child removed (device {d} port {d})\n", .{ child.parent, child.bus_address });
+            child.used = false;
+            status = 0;
+        }
+    }
+    const report_reply = protocol.ReportReply{ .status = status };
+    @memcpy(reply[0..@sizeOf(protocol.ReportReply)], std.mem.asBytes(&report_reply));
+    return @sizeOf(protocol.ReportReply);
+}
+
+/// An application asked for the tree: the mirror, as a header plus entries.
+fn onEnumerate(reply: []u8) usize {
+    var count: u32 = 0;
+    var offset: usize = @sizeOf(protocol.EnumerateReply);
+    for (&children) |*child| {
+        if (!child.used) continue;
+        if (offset + @sizeOf(protocol.ChildEntry) > reply.len) break;
+        const entry = protocol.ChildEntry{ .parent = child.parent, .bus_address = child.bus_address, .identity = child.identity };
+        @memcpy(reply[offset..][0..@sizeOf(protocol.ChildEntry)], std.mem.asBytes(&entry));
+        offset += @sizeOf(protocol.ChildEntry);
+        count += 1;
+    }
+    const header = protocol.EnumerateReply{ .status = 0, .count = count };
+    @memcpy(reply[0..@sizeOf(protocol.EnumerateReply)], std.mem.asBytes(&header));
+    return offset;
+}
+
+/// An application subscribed: its endpoint arrived as the call's capability.
+fn onSubscribe(reply: []u8, capability: ?runtime.ipc.Handle) usize {
+    var status: i32 = -1;
+    if (capability) |handle| {
+        for (&subscribers) |*slot| {
+            if (slot.* == null) {
+                slot.* = handle;
+                status = 0;
+                break;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+    const report_reply = protocol.ReportReply{ .status = status };
+    @memcpy(reply[0..@sizeOf(protocol.ReportReply)], std.mem.asBytes(&report_reply));
+    return @sizeOf(protocol.ReportReply);
+}
+
 fn onNotification(badge: u64) void {
     if (badge & runtime.ipc.notify_exit_bit != 0) {
         const dead: u32 = @intCast(badge & ~(runtime.ipc.notify_badge_bit | runtime.ipc.notify_exit_bit));
@@ -293,6 +465,7 @@ fn onNotification(badge: u64) void {
 pub fn main(init: runtime.process.Init) void {
     if (init.arguments.get(1)) |mode| {
         test_restart_mode = std.mem.eql(u8, mode, "test-restart");
+        test_usb_restart_mode = std.mem.eql(u8, mode, "test-usb-restart");
     }
     runtime.service.run(protocol.message_maximum, .{
         .service = .device_manager,

system/services/fdt/fdt.zig

@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+//! /system/services/fdt — the devicetree discovery service: the ARM twin of the
+//! acpi service (docs/m19-m20-plan.md decision 7). **Placeholder: not
+//! implemented.** It exists so the build's `-Ddiscovery` option has both of its
+//! values from day one; the implementation lands with the Raspberry Pi
+//! bring-up (docs/arm.md).
+//!
+//! What it becomes: the per-firmware discoverer for boots that hand over a
+//! flattened device tree instead of ACPI tables. It claims the
+//! `devicetree-blob` node the kernel publishes (the FDT the loader received),
+//! walks the tree — pure data, no bytecode, so unlike the acpi service it
+//! needs no port grant and no interpreter — and, like any bus-shaped driver:
+//! `device_register`s what it finds (containment against the blob node's
+//! recorded apertures), reports each child to the device manager
+//! (`child_added`, identity = the node's `compatible` string), and stays
+//! resident under the manager's supervision (hello, restart, the usual
+//! contract).
+//!
+//! Known prerequisite recorded in the plan: `DeviceDescriptor`'s 8-byte `hid`
+//! cannot hold an FDT `compatible` string ("brcm,bcm2835-aux-uart") — identity
+//! widens before this file grows a body.
+
+const runtime = @import("runtime");
+
+pub fn main() void {
+    // Not implemented: exit cleanly and silently (a bare spawn by the
+    // initial-ramdisk sweep must not derange other tests' markers). The
+    // supervisor reads a clean exit as "meant to stop" — correct for a
+    // placeholder.
+}
+
+pub const panic = runtime.panic;
+comptime {
+    _ = &runtime.start._start; // pull the runtime entry shim into the image
+}

system/services/process-test/process-test.zig

@@ -51,8 +51,9 @@ fn awaitChildExit(endpoint: runtime.ipc.Handle) u32 {
 /// The harness-run child of the signals test: echoes requests, logs the two
 /// signals it handles. Terminate makes run() return, and returning from main is
 /// the clean exit the parent reads as ExitReason.exited.
-fn echo(message: []const u8, reply: []u8, sender: u32) usize {
+fn echo(message: []const u8, reply: []u8, sender: u32, capability: ?runtime.ipc.Handle) usize {
     _ = sender;
+    _ = capability;
     const n = @min(message.len, reply.len);
     @memcpy(reply[0..n], message[0..n]);
     return n;

system/services/vfs/vfs.zig

@@ -91,7 +91,8 @@ fn releaseClientHandles(client: u32) void {
 }
 
 /// Handle one request from `sender`; write the reply into `out`, return its length.
-fn handle(message: []const u8, out: []u8, sender: u32) usize {
+fn handle(message: []const u8, out: []u8, sender: u32, capability: ?runtime.ipc.Handle) usize {
+    _ = capability;
     if (message.len < protocol.request_size) return fail(out);
     const request = std.mem.bytesToValue(protocol.Request, message[0..protocol.request_size]);
     const payload = message[protocol.request_size..];

test/qemu_test.py

@@ -258,6 +258,37 @@ CASES = [
      "smp":    4,
      "expect": r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: PASS",
      "fail":   r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: FAIL"},
+    # M18.2: bus tree reports — the xHCI driver scans its root-hub ports and
+    # reports both QEMU devices; the manager mirrors, prunes on the reporter's
+    # death, and the respawned driver re-reports (docs/device-manager.md).
+    {"name": "usb-report",
+     "smp":    4,
+     "timeout": 90,
+     "qemu_extra": ["-device", "qemu-xhci,id=xhci",
+                    "-device", "usb-kbd,bus=xhci.0",
+                    "-device", "usb-mouse,bus=xhci.0"],
+     "expect": r"device-manager: child added[\s\S]*"
+               r"device-manager: child added[\s\S]*"
+               r"device-manager: test mode: killing the reporter[\s\S]*"
+               r"device-manager: child removed[\s\S]*"
+               r"device-manager: restarting usb-xhci-bus[\s\S]*"
+               r"device-manager: child added",
+     "fail":   r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: FAIL"},
+    # M18.3: the application surface — device-list enumerates the tree over IPC,
+    # subscribes (endpoint as capability), and observes the removed/added events
+    # the reporter's test-kill produces (docs/device-manager.md).
+    {"name": "device-list",
+     "smp":    4,
+     "timeout": 90,
+     "qemu_extra": ["-device", "qemu-xhci,id=xhci",
+                    "-device", "usb-kbd,bus=xhci.0",
+                    "-device", "usb-mouse,bus=xhci.0"],
+     "expect": r"device-list: 2 devices[\s\S]*"
+               r"device-list: subscribed[\s\S]*"
+               r"device-manager: test mode: killing the reporter[\s\S]*"
+               r"device-list: removed \(device[\s\S]*"
+               r"device-list: added \(device",
+     "fail":   r"DANOS-TEST-RESULT: FAIL"},
     # M18.1: the device manager's hello + restart policy — xHCI hellos clean and
     # stays; crash-test faults, is restarted with backoff (re-claiming its device
     # each time), and hits the crash-loop cap (docs/device-manager.md).