Milestone 0.1.0

The 0.1.0 milestone validates the structural integrity of the kernel and its ability to operate autonomously. This stage is reached when the system successfully boots, manages memory resources, and orchestrates capabilities.

The validation criteria focus on the stability of the core subsystems. The physical memory allocator (WHBA) and the virtual memory manager must demonstrate correct operation alongside the asynchronous scheduler within a symmetric multi-processing (SMP) environment. This ensures that resource distribution across multiple processor cores occurs without critical contention or coherency errors.

Inter-process communication is a central validation point. The zero-copy signaling mechanism is required to successfully mediate all control flow between the kernel, the embedded storage drivers, and user-space processes. This confirms the viability of the memory ownership transfer model as the primary method of data exchange.

Finally, the system must demonstrate user-space sovereignty by loading, executing, and cleanly terminating an independent process linked against the native runtime. The boot sequence is considered complete only when the kernel autonomously initializes the hardware, mounts the root file system via embedded drivers, and successfully transfers control to the initial user process.