add ntfs.sys standalone driver target, change default usb vhd layout formatting to ntfs, implement Fat32CreateDir for directory creation support in the fat32 file system driver, add a dedicated HAL serial output endpoint for COM1 writes in hal_serial.c and subscribe serial to HAL text streams, introduce waitable kernel timers with KeTimerCreate, KeTimerSet, and KeTimerCancel alongside spinlock-protected global timer list initialization and scheduler tick tracking, implement SyscallWriteFileAsync system call for asynchronous non-blocking file writes, refactor NetSocketConnect and NetSocketSendTo to use generic SYS_SOCKET_ADDRESS_K structures instead of being hardcoded to IPv4, update gethostbyname and DNS name resolution to support IPv6 parsing via ResolveNameFamily, update tcpserve.exe with -4 and -6 command-line flags to accept and display IPv6 addresses, append size and version headers to all kernel telemetry and statistics structures including SYS_PMM_STATS, SYS_CPU_STATS, and SYS_SCHEDULER_STATS, update winmm timeGetTime to look up high-resolution hardware frequencies via SysGetTickFrequency, integrate 14 native smoke test applications.

code/public/ntlite/ddi/net_abi.h

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-// Public NTLite net abi ABI declarations shared between kernel, drivers, and user mode.
+// Public NTLite net ABI declarations shared between kernel, drivers, and user mode.
 
 #pragma once
 // net_abi.h - native networking ABI shared by the kernel socket facade
@@ -8,18 +8,20 @@
 #include <stddef.h>
 
 #define SYS_AF_INET         2u
+#define SYS_AF_INET6        10u
 #define SYS_SOCK_STREAM     1u
 #define SYS_SOCK_DGRAM      2u
 #define SYS_SOCK_RAW        3u
 #define SYS_IPPROTO_ICMP    1u
 #define SYS_IPPROTO_TCP     6u
 #define SYS_IPPROTO_UDP     17u
+#define SYS_IPPROTO_ICMPV6  58u
 
 #define SYS_SHUTDOWN_READ   0u
 #define SYS_SHUTDOWN_WRITE  1u
 #define SYS_SHUTDOWN_BOTH   2u
 
-#define SYS_SOCKET_ADDRESS_IPV4_SIZE 8u
+#define SYS_SOCKET_ADDRESS_SIZE 28u
 #define SYS_RESOLVE_HOST_NAME_MAX 255u
 
 #define SYS_SOCKET_OPT_RECV_TIMEOUT_MS 1u
@@ -33,11 +35,14 @@
 #define SYS_POLL_INVALID  0x0010u
 #define SYS_POLL_TIMEOUT_INFINITE 0xFFFFFFFFu
 
-typedef struct SYS_SOCKET_ADDRESS_IPV4_K {
-    uint16_t Family;       // SYS_AF_INET
-    uint16_t Port;         // host byte order
-    uint8_t  Address[4];   // dotted-quad bytes, e.g. {10,0,2,2}
-} SYS_SOCKET_ADDRESS_IPV4_K;
+// Kernel socket providers use the same tagged native address shape as syscalls.
+typedef struct SYS_SOCKET_ADDRESS_K {
+    uint16_t Family;
+    uint16_t Size;
+    uint16_t Port;
+    uint8_t  Address[16];
+    uint32_t ScopeId;
+} SYS_SOCKET_ADDRESS_K;
 
 typedef struct SYS_POLLFD_K {
     uint32_t Handle;