# Executive Directive: Deliver a safe SMI 00-05-01 update floor while preserving a return path to revised DisplayTest and the FAT32 production handoff. Prove the transition on both controller assemblies before release.

Status: promoted
Type: idea-brief
Role: project-executive-directive-v1
Updated: 2026-09-22
Next Action: visually verify Controller A boot, touch, SMI identity, and FAT32 warning; then establish correct SMI QSPI resources and generate the controlled 00-05-01 IMX
Readiness Review: READY-WITH-PRM-GATES at revision 3; four gates transferred to MAP-0009
Produces: MAP-0009

## CEO Directive

Deliver a safe SMI 00-05-01 update floor while preserving a return path to revised DisplayTest and the FAT32 production handoff. Prove the transition on both controller assemblies before release.

## Desired Outcome

Use IDEA-0006 as the technical scope and decision record. Deliver an SMI 00-05-01 candidate whose validated IMX Title governs family/version identity and whose ordinary updater refuses pre-00-05-01 personality images before QSPI erase. Provide a separate direct service rollback to any valid SMI image without a version allowlist. For a pre-00-05-00 FAT32-era target, validate and stage the image before explicit, confirmed in-place FAT32 preparation of the installed card; service 471 remains the HPT2 recovery action if current SMI survives a pre-flash failure. Preserve an SMI return path to DisplayTest 01-01 or later that safely handles HPT2 media and then verifies FAT32 handoff. DisplayTest may install a valid older SMI personality after that FAT32 handoff; its fixture-to-fixture minimum is 01-01. Keep SMI's HPT2 initialization explicit. Require transition, refusal, and rollback evidence on both controller assemblies before release.

## Current Position

The owner accepted the direction in IDEA-0006 and added the rare direct SMI rollback path. MAP-0009 carries the four readiness gates. The SMI source has the ordinary Title floor, exact SMI/CVO/DVO product recognition, DisplayTest return parser, and separate service-code-151 rollback with CID-checked in-place FAT32 preparation. A pending SD request now cancels after 30 seconds if the SD owner never accepts it; accepted destructive work still waits for the terminal result. Fresh clean-commit Debug and Release rebuilds, 19 identity cases, 9 rollback checks, 16 update cases, and 15 review checks pass. Commit `77495a37` is frozen as immutable candidate `00.05.01-77495a3715ff-5a30dd9eacda`; the Release S-record SHA-256 is `5A30DD9EACDA99AD7BC86CA70D536FA331B78A4015325891DE920EA8421B00B3`. The owner clarified that both controllers initially ran DVO and lacked service 467, then explicitly authorized overwriting both with SMI. Controller A programming passed; its exact four-MiB readback matches the candidate, and settled target state reports FAT32/needs initialization with valid CID `05000C61736466672200001C8901A34F` and a valid representative read. SMI 00-05-01 and DisplayTest 01-01 IMX bytes remain to be generated and bound. Visual and transition behavior remain unproven, so this is a target-installed development candidate, not a qualified release.

## Progress

- [x] Directive captured exactly in canonical project state.
- [x] Codex has delegated the directive into a bounded plan and execution chain (MAP-0009).
- [ ] The requested outcome has evidence and is reconciled.

Only check a milestone when canonical lifecycle state or linked evidence supports it. Codex updates
this section as work moves; the generated `work/100k.md` never guesses progress.

## Recommended Next Action

Verify Controller A boot, touch, SMI identity, and FAT32 warning. Then establish correct SMI QSPI resources, generate the service-150 IMX, and continue the A-first transition matrix.

## Why This Next

The host-side implementation, immutable candidate, exact Controller A program/readback, and post-program CID capture are complete. Visual function and correct SMI QSPI resources are the next prerequisites for trustworthy image generation.

## Blockers

- A DisplayTest 01-01 or later image has not yet been qualified for safe HPT2 startup and FAT32 production handoff.
- The SMI 00-05-01 and DisplayTest 01-01 candidate IMX files and hashes are not yet established; verify selected legacy image bytes on target media before use.
- SMI 00-05-01 and DisplayTest 01-01 IMX files do not yet exist; service 150 must generate the SMI image from verified SMI QSPI resources before transition testing can consume it.
- Controller A's QSPI still carries the prior DVO personality state; service 150 cannot generate a controlled SMI image until correct SMI resources are established and verified.

## Operator Needs

- Report Controller A's visible boot, touch, About identity, and SD/FAT32 warning before resource preparation proceeds.

## Completion Condition

The SMI and DisplayTest implementation and release identities satisfy IDEA-0006; both controller assemblies pass the forward, return, renamed-file, ordinary legacy-refusal, and representative direct rollback matrix; in-place FAT32 preparation, service-471 recovery, and retention safeguards are verified; the resulting release decision is evidence-backed and reconciled to this directive.

## Authority And Delivery Boundary

- Preserve any endpoint, target, timing, non-goal, or authority language stated in the directive.
- Initial CEO intake does not authorize code, build, programming, SD preparation, bench testing, push, or release. Subordinate source-changing work defaults to a verified Work1 candidate until a later delivery endpoint is authorized.
- The owner's latest 2026-09-22 clarification explicitly authorizes replacing the installed DVO firmware with SMI on Controller A and Controller B. Pre-program CID is recorded unavailable because DVO lacks service 467; post-program CID evidence is mandatory.
- The service rollback is explicit and accepts any structurally valid SMI image, with no version allowlist. Do not treat the ordinary floor as a ban on controlled recovery or treat common internal-flash failure risk as unique to downgrading. Do not require field SD-card replacement.
- Interrupt only for a genuine material decision or authority boundary.

## Delegation Contract

Initial issuance is durable intake only. Tool Shed appends this Idea through canonical planning
order, checkpoints it, and stops so other directives may be captured first. Reissuing the exact
active directive delegates or resumes it when doing so will not preempt another working campaign.

The Plan Cycle interprets this directive, the Roadmap Cycle organizes it when needed, the Milestone
Cycle materializes bounded campaigns, Campaign Cycles execute, and Evidence/Outcome Cycles report
the result back to 100k. The CEO is not required to select those internal mechanics.

## Exploration Log

### 2026-09-21

- The owner accepted the recommended CEO framing from the IDEA-0006 discussion. Preserve that brief as the technical source and keep this directive as the executive outcome.
- The owner directed IDEA-0006 and this CEO directive to include direct service rollback to approved older SMI firmware and in-place FAT32 preparation. Service 471 is the existing explicit HPT2 recovery action when current SMI remains bootable.
- The owner later clarified that service rollback accepts any valid SMI image, and corrected the DisplayTest normal return floor to 01-01 or later. The earlier named-image questions are superseded; exact images remain qualification specimens.

### 2026-09-22

- Read-only review of the separate DisplayTest 01-01 source found FAT32 handoff before personality installation, no DisplayTest personality version floor, and a 01-01 fixture-to-fixture minimum. Its project record reports a Controller B transition to SMI 00-04-11 after FAT32 handoff, with an initially unresponsive install tap requiring a power cycle; old SMI logging remains unproven. The SMI ordinary 00-05-01 floor and DisplayTest return floor are distinct. SMI A/B target qualification and this project's bench pause remain open.
- Owner designated Controller A as the initial target control for the SMI 00-05-01 transition work. Controller B remains the second required release-qualification assembly. The designation does not itself resume bench work or authorize a target operation.
- Source review removed the late-format false-failure timeout and made the read-only USB media flush informational after staged CRC verification. Release rebuild, 16 update cases, and 15 review checks pass; target fault behavior is still open. SMI 00-05-00 and 00-04-11 specimens are identified by controlled hashes, while 00-05-01 and DisplayTest 01-01 IMX candidate bytes remain pending. A newer DisplayTest Controller B record demonstrates new SMI 00-04-11 FAT32 records in a five-minute export; post-restart retention was not checked.
