Field Notes — August 6, 2026

August 6, 2026

13 public commits · 3 public repos · 191 private commits

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SouveraineOS 5 changes
- 58: samcday's pmic-typec-smb2 covers most of phase 2, unrun on hardware
  11:43 p.m. · f5dd985
- 61: gamma landed and measured; the DPU exposes CTM, the LUT is 1024
  6:57 p.m. · 1eae558
- bug list: sessiond dead, r84 running, split default, screencopy open
  10:29 a.m. · bbb25b5
- 59: she is the face of the voice pipeline, not a chat keyboard
  10:14 a.m. · 30852cb
- 59: the face is home-layer furniture, not a zone occupant
  9:02 a.m. · e2fb113
souveraine 4 changes
- gamma: the brightness slider drives viewtop's LUT, not hyprctl (TASK-61)
  6:57 p.m. · 4ff8d2e
- rail: a keyboard-up climb means only a swap, never navigation
  11:54 a.m. · c2dcbe7
- the face draws: relative asset paths over loopback, and a dead socket stops being a gate
  11:18 a.m. · 7f294a5
- drawer: the search field stops auto-focusing on the phone; tapping it summons the keyboard
  11:03 a.m. · d1e580e
souveraine-viewtop 4 changes
- scan-out formats: offer 10-bit behind VIEWTOP_10BIT, default off (TASK-61)
  6:56 p.m. · 90d6b84
- zone minting: an occupied zone-1 is never reused from home (TASK-86)
  2:39 p.m. · 60ff764
  Opening a second app from home claimed zone 1 unconditionally once it existed, so both apps shared one workspace and placement.rs split that zone top/bottom. The home path now checks occupancy the same way the non-home path does; an occupied neighbour mints a fresh zone instead of dividing the first one.
- dock taps go to the window's zone before raising
  11:54 a.m. · 54f35b8
- a new window assumes its own zone; splitting is a directed act
  10:34 a.m. · bb39023