ci: standing Alpha boot-LOGIN acceptance gate — green-by-SHA (vms-341) - #692
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Adds the alpha-boot-login job: OVMX/Linux-Alpha (LP64) boots under qemu-system-alpha to an AUTHENTICATED interactive DCL $ over the genuine Files-11 ODS-2 executive ACP -- SYSTEM/MANAGER authenticated by Purdy against the binary $UAFDEF SYSUAF, not just boot-to-Username. This makes Alpha authenticity a STANDING green-by-SHA proof (the 4th-arch dimension of the 0.5 flip), not an ad-hoc conductor-run command. Tier: schedule || workflow_dispatch, exactly like the netbsd-vax-boot SIMH gate and the other heavy-emulator jobs -- deliberately NOT the per-PR path (a full Alpha cross-build + boot is ~25-30 min; the PR wall stays fast). The conductor fires it via workflow_dispatch on the frozen SHA at cut time for a machine-observable green-by-SHA proof; nightly schedule catches drift. qemu-system-alpha is pure TCG (no KVM), so it runs on a stock ubuntu-latest runner. No persistent .boot-cache -- a fresh runner cross-builds the full userland+vms.ko+ODS-2 disk from the checked-out SHA, so the gate can never pass on a stale artifact (the false-green class of vms-46f5). DEPENDS ON #691 (vms-alpha-login-gate): that PR lands run-boot-alpha.sh's 'login' mode + the genuine-ODS-2 disk master + IMGACT staging + the LOGINOUT SYSUAF-engine anchor this job exercises. Merge #691 first; this job only matters when the gate is actually dispatched. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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) Bump OVMX_PRODUCT_VERSION V0.5 -> V0.5-1. Point release packing the V0.5-x train: the NetBSD/VAX executive Files-11 ODS-2 ACP flip completing the flip on all three substrates (#690, vms-d9c green), Alpha authentic binary-SYSUAF login + standing green-by-SHA CI gate (#691/#692), C++ first-light 3-way-gated (#695), the executable-own .vms$wimp binding fix (#694), and the 1.0=hardening roadmap re-scope (#693). Release notes: docs/release-notes-0.5-1.md. Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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* release: OVMX V0.5-1 — 3-substrate flip complete + C++ first-light Bump OVMX_PRODUCT_VERSION V0.5 -> V0.5-1. Point release packing the V0.5-x train: the NetBSD/VAX executive Files-11 ODS-2 ACP flip completing the flip on all three substrates (#690, vms-d9c green), Alpha authentic binary-SYSUAF login + standing green-by-SHA CI gate (#691/#692), C++ first-light 3-way-gated (#695), the executable-own .vms$wimp binding fix (#694), and the 1.0=hardening roadmap re-scope (#693). Release notes: docs/release-notes-0.5-1.md. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> * roadmap: reconcile for V0.5-1 (regenerate doc + build json from rd/tags) Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Makes the Alpha authentic-login proof a standing green-by-SHA release-acceptance gate, not an ad-hoc conductor-run command — the 4th-arch authenticity dimension of the 0.5 flip.
What it adds
One job,
alpha-boot-login(+62 lines,ci.ymlonly): OVMX/Linux-Alpha (LP64) boots under qemu-system-alpha to an authenticated interactive DCL$over the genuine Files-11 ODS-2 executive ACP — SYSTEM/MANAGER authenticated by Purdy against the binary $UAFDEF SYSUAF, then SHOW TIME. Exit 0 iff that whole chain holds.Tier & rationale
schedule || workflow_dispatch— exactly the tier thenetbsd-vax-bootSIMH gate and the other heavy-emulator jobs already use. Deliberately NOT the per-PR path (a full Alpha cross-build + boot is ~25-30 min); the fast PR wall (vms-fb8: CI tier-split + KVM accel — per-PR loop off the 46m e2e wall #669's ~8.8 min) is untouched. Confirmed zero per-PR/push impact.ubuntu-latestrunner — same as the VAX SIMH gates..boot-cache: a fresh runner cross-builds the full Alpha userland + vms.ko + ODS-2 disk from the checked-out SHA, so the gate can never pass on a stale artifact (the V0.4-6-on-a-V0.5-tree false-green class, vms-46f5).⚠ Merge order — depends on #691
This job invokes
tools/cross-alpha/run-boot-alpha.sh login, whoseloginmode + the genuine-ODS-2 disk master + IMGACT.EXE staging + the LOGINOUT SYSUAF-engine anchor all live on #691 (vms-alpha-login-gate). Merge #691 first, then this. The job is schedule/dispatch-only, so nothing runs (or reddens) until the gate is actually dispatched — but a dispatch before #691 lands would fail.Shared file
This touches
ci.yml(CI structure, adjacent to the #669 latency work) — flagging for conductor / CI-owner review. It adds only a new isolated job on the existing heavy-emulator tier; it modifies no existing job and no per-PR path.rd: vms-341 / vms-8954