Field report (Windows laptop, lid closed, Tailscale): v0.12.0's activation fix works — the pf-vdisplay target activates in ~200ms — but the session still dies at the first-frame gate: 'driver_status=1 but no frame published within 4s'. Triage showed three independent blind spots; this names all of them at their source instead of guessing downstream: - pf-win-display: decode ChangeDisplaySettingsExW failures (-1 FAILED — a display write rejected, the wrong/remote-session signature — vs -2 BADMODE, which the old 'mode not advertised?' text conflated), and WARN on every non-zero SetDisplayConfig rc in the CCD isolate even when verification passes vacuously (the lid-closed case: nothing else active, so the INFO swallowed rc=0x5 ERROR_ACCESS_DENIED while the load-bearing COMMIT_MODES → ASSIGN_SWAPCHAIN re-commit silently never applied). Access-denied rcs get the remedy appended (console session / installed service). - host: console-session guard (interactive::console_session_mismatch) — a host outside the active console session (a hand-launched host after an RDP round-trip) fails every display write, reads the wrong session's GDI view, and its SendInput compose kicks go nowhere. Named ERROR at vdisplay acquire + appended to the first-frame timeout, instead of the misleading generic failure. (The idd_push diagnosis half of this landed in 9a36ea21; this commit adds the proto helpers + session guard it references, healing the windows-cfg build.) - proto + driver: while OPENED, driver_status_detail now carries a live packed word (bit31 live-marker | offered 15-bit | mismatch-dropped 16-bit) maintained by the publisher, so the host's first-frame timeout can tell apart: never-attached (no swap-chain worker ran), attached-but-DWM-composed- zero-frames (undamaged/powered-off desktop, kicks blocked on the secure desktop), and composed-but-every-frame-mismatched (ring sized from a stale/ foreign-session GDI mode). Zero layout change, old drivers read as 'no detail'; unit-tested pack/unpack in pf-driver-proto. Verified on winbox: cargo check + clippy -p punktfunk-host -p pf-win-display -p pf-driver-proto EXIT 0, drivers ws cargo check -p pf-vdisplay EXIT 0 (Version_Number=10.0.26100.0), cargo fmt --all --check clean; pf-driver-proto tests 13/13 pass locally. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
pf-driver-proto
The shared host ↔ driver binary contract for punktfunk's Windows pf-vdisplay virtual display — the control IOCTLs and the IDD-push frame transport, defined exactly once.
It's a path dependency of both the host workspace (crates/punktfunk-host)
and the out-of-workspace driver workspace (packaging/windows/drivers/),
so it must resolve identically from either build graph. That's why it's deliberately self-contained:
no_std (+ alloc), platform-neutral (GUID/LUID are plain integers each side converts to its own OS
type), and free of *.workspace = true inheritance.
Defining every wire struct here — with const size/offset asserts and bytemuck round-trips — turns
host↔driver ABI drift into a compile error instead of a silent frame or IOCTL corruption.
See the crate root (src/) for the wire types; the Windows virtual-display design is in
the internal planning repo (punktfunk-planning: windows-virtual-display-rust-port.md).