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 # Red Bear OS — `pci-spawner` → `driver-manager` Migration Plan
 
-**Document status:** v5.3 canonical planning authority (supersedes v5.2).
-v5.3 records W2 closure (broken KDE daemon activation .service files
-removed). v5.2 closed C1 (OHCI bulk + interrupt transfers). v5.1
-closed G-A4 (iwlwifi spawned-mode channel contract). v5.0 closed v5.3
-(initnsmgr O_NONBLOCK) and the W1-W8 stub-fix pass. v4.9 recorded
-v5.0, v5.1, v5.5 implementation. v4.8 was the first comprehensive
-cross-subsystem audit after the cutover completed.
+**Document status:** v5.4 canonical planning authority (supersedes v5.3).
+v5.4 records the Mesa Redox winsys CS submit seqno multi-process
+correctness fix (the round-3 audit's only CRITICAL finding). v5.3
+records W2 closure (broken KDE daemon activation .service files removed).
+v5.2 closed C1 (OHCI bulk + interrupt transfers). v5.1 closed G-A4
+(iwlwifi spawned-mode channel contract). v5.0 closed v5.3 (initnsmgr
+O_NONBLOCK) and the W1-W8 stub-fix pass. v4.9 recorded v5.0, v5.1,
+v5.5 implementation. v4.8 was the first comprehensive cross-subsystem
+audit after the cutover completed.
 
-The round-2 audit (2026-07-26) found C1 was missed by W1-W8; the
-remaining items (W1 btctl stub backend, W3 seatd incomplete, W4
-notifications stderr-only, W5 redox-drm relocations) are documented
-limitations that require real kernel-stack work (BlueZ, seatd Redox
-port, D-Bus display integration, i915 GEM relocations) beyond the
+The round-3 audit (2026-07-26) found the Mesa CS seqno fake was a
+real multi-process correctness bug and fixed it; the remaining items
+(W1 btctl stub backend, W3 seatd incomplete, W4 notifications
+stderr-only, W5 redox-drm relocations) are documented limitations
+that require real kernel-stack work (BlueZ, seatd Redox port, D-Bus
+display integration, i915 GEM relocations) beyond the
 scope of this plan.
 v4.8 is the first **comprehensive cross-subsystem audit** after the cutover
 completed. It documents five newly-discovered runtime-grade gaps that
@@ -125,6 +128,68 @@ end-state once a freestanding thread-spawn helper is added to `redox_rt`.
 | **v5.5** | **Boot race instrumentation** | Add boot-timeline instrumentation for: (a) driver-manager claim-to-spawn latency per device; (b) firmware-loader ready-to-driver-bind latency for `NEED_FIRMWARE` drivers; (c) thermald governor-switch latency; (d) pcid AER event latency (poller→consumer). Surface as `/scheme/driver-manager/timing` and `/tmp/redbear-boot-timeline.json` extensions. | ✅ **DONE 2026-07-25** — commit `045aaa4579`. New `timing.rs` module with 4 buckets (claim-spawn, firmware-ready, governor-switch, aer-event), exposed at `/scheme/driver-manager/timing` as JSON snapshot and appended to boot timeline. 24 new tests, 112 total passing. |
 | **v5.6** | **Hardware validation matrix completion** | AMD Threadripper (canonical AMD profile), Intel Alder Lake or later, with ≥3 driver categories each: storage (NVMe + AHCI), network (e1000d + rtl8168d + virtio-netd), USB (xhcid), GPU (Intel or AMD display path). Per `local/docs/HARDWARE-VALIDATION-MATRIX.md`. | 🔴 **OPERATOR-ONLY** — D5 ratification gate. No agent can perform real-hardware validation. Status unchanged from v4.7. |
 
+### v5.4 implementation summary (2026-07-26)
+
+**Mesa CS submit seqno multi-process correctness** (commit `9846f288b4`):
+
+The round-3 audit found the Mesa Redox winsys CS submit path
+(`src/gallium/winsys/redox/drm/redox_drm_cs.c:156`) was faking the
+seqno with `result.seqno = rws->cs->last_seqno + 1 : 1;` instead of
+reading the kernel-assigned seqno. This was a **real multi-process
+correctness bug**: the kernel's seqno is global per device, but
+each Mesa process had its own local counter. When process A submits
+batch #1 (kernel seqno 100) and process B submits batch #2 (kernel
+seqno 101), process A's local counter diverges from the kernel's
+actual seqno. Fence waits keyed on the local counter would never
+complete when waiting for seqnos in the kernel's namespace. Common
+case: any compositor + GPU client setup (KDE compositor plus browser,
+video player, etc.).
+
+**Fix** (three coordinated changes following the standard DRM
+bidirectional-ioctl pattern that `DrmAmdgpuCsWire` already uses):
+
+**redox-drm kernel side:**
+- `driver.rs`: `RedoxPrivateCsSubmit` gains `seqno: u64` output
+  field (40 bytes total). `RedoxPrivateCsWait` gains `completed`,
+  `_pad`, `completed_seqno` response fields (32 bytes total). Both
+  structs gain `Default` derive for `..Default::default()` use.
+- `scheme.rs`: CS_SUBMIT handler writes `resp.seqno` back into
+  `req.seqno` and serializes `req` (`bytes_of(&resp)` →
+  `bytes_of(&req)`). CS_WAIT handler similarly copies the
+  result fields into req. The trait's `RedoxPrivateCsSubmitResult`
+  and `RedoxPrivateCsWaitResult` types are retained as return
+  types; the wire response is carried in the bidirectional struct.
+- `drivers/amd/mod.rs`, `intel/mod.rs`, `virtio/mod.rs`: each
+  cs_submit / cs_wait construction site uses
+  `..Default::default()` for the new response fields. No logic
+  changes (the driver impls still return the response via the
+  trait method, scheme.rs copies it into the bidirectional struct).
+
+**Mesa winsys side:**
+- `source/src/gallium/winsys/redox/drm/redox_drm_cs.c`: merge
+  `RedoxCsSubmitWire` + `RedoxCsSubmitResultWire` into ONE
+  bidirectional `RedoxCsSubmitWire` (with seqno output field).
+  Same for wait. Remove the fake `result.seqno = rws->cs->...`
+  line. Instead read `submit.seqno` and `wait.completed_seqno`
+  from the same struct after `drmIoctl` returns. The file's
+  header comment now explicitly documents the bidirectional
+  pattern, the kernel ABI, and the multi-process correctness
+  consequence.
+
+**Durability:**
+- `local/patches/mesa/26-cs-submit-bidirectional-seqno.patch`
+  (135 lines, new): persists the C-side merge across clean
+  re-extracts of the upstream Mesa 26.1.4 tarball.
+- `local/recipes/libs/mesa/recipe.toml`: patch added to the
+  `patches = [...]` list with a comment noting it's required
+  for multi-process GPU fence correctness.
+
+**Verification gate (operator-side):** the runtime fix requires
+real-hardware multi-process GPU testing (compositor + clients
+all using the same `/scheme/drm/card0`). Fence waits between
+processes must complete correctly. This is the operator-side
+runtime gate, not compilable.
+
 ### v5.0 implementation summary (2026-07-26)
 
 **v5.3 initnsmgr Design B (kernel + base paired change)**: