docs: the OSCCAL axis, --scan, and the RC-oscillator deployment risk

Configuration gains the OSCCAL row; Deployment says what the build cannot
see (±10 % factory trim against a frame's ~±4 %, and silence that reads as
wiring); the update section names an OSCCAL bake as a link change in effect,
declared with --staged-baud; the host-tool section documents --scan and the
measured clock --info adds on an autobaud session; the version map gains 6.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -72,6 +72,7 @@ repo's build and by a downstream project alike:
| `USART <n>` | the USART instance (x4 megas carry two) | 0 |
| `RX <pin>`, `TX <pin>` | software-UART pins | `pb0`, `pb1` |
| `TIMEOUT <s>` | the activation window | 8 |
| `OSCCAL <byte>` | a measured oscillator trim, applied before anything runs | none — no value, no code |
The default baud is the fastest of 115200/57600/38400/19200/9600 the clock
reaches within 2.5 % — the same U2X-included divisor search libavr's baud
@@ -285,7 +286,9 @@ Two generations exist. **1 through 4** speak one session — a 12-byte info bloc
from `b`, and a command per memory (`R`/`W` flash, `r`/`w` EEPROM, `F` fuses).
**5** replaced those with the single `G`/`g` pair over selector-named spaces
above; the shipped tool speaks both, choosing on the version it reads, so a
deployed pureboot 4 stays drivable and self-updatable to 5.
deployed pureboot 4 stays drivable and self-updatable to 5. **6** changes
nothing on the wire: it marks the builds that may carry a baked `OSCCAL` trim
(Configuration), so a tool driving an update knows such images exist.
Every closed generation is tagged in this repo at its era's last commit — the
commit just before the next version bump, so a tag holds everything its
@@ -350,6 +353,18 @@ mega (SPM only executes from the boot section — reflash the .hex), but *runs*
on a patched-vector chip, and the ordinary `--update-loader` flow re-homes it
into the top slot from there (`pureboot.rehome`).
**Fixed-baud on an internal RC oscillator is a deployment risk the build
cannot see.** The factory trim is ±10 % where an 8N1 frame survives about
±4: a part at the edge answers nothing at the built rate, and the symptom —
silence — reads as a wiring fault (a real ATtiny13A measured 5.5 %, outside
every standard rate at its own documented default). The **autobaud build is
the deployment-proof backend**: it has no rate to miss. Where fixed-baud on
RC is wanted anyway, measure first and bake the trim: an autobaud session's
`--info` prints the part's true clock from the loader's own measured bit
period, OSCCAL moves the oscillator about 1 % per step, and `OSCCAL <byte>`
builds the correction in — one buildmeasure iteration converges. A loader
already deployed and silent is diagnosed with `--scan` (Host tool).
## Updating the loader
`pureboot.py --update-loader new_pureboot.bin` replaces the resident loader
@@ -374,6 +389,11 @@ The host retunes on the open port, so no DTR pulse resets the copy it is talking
to. Omit them against a changed link and the update stops after installing the
staging copy, saying so and naming this as the cause.
An `OSCCAL`-baked image is a link change in effect even at an unchanged rate
on paper: the staging copy shifts the physical clock the moment its `run()`
starts, and from then on speaks exactly what it was built for. Declare it
like any other link change — `--staged-baud` with the new build's rate.
The preflight refuses an image built for another chip: the stamp every pureboot
binary carries must resolve to the device's own geometry, and the error names
both. Die revisions share their base signature and geometry, so their images
@@ -430,7 +450,19 @@ application data into a mega's reset walk region.
`--autobaud` opens with the calibration pulse instead of the plain knock, for a
loader built `SERIAL autobaud`; the rest of the session is identical, at
whatever `--baud` the host chose.
whatever `--baud` the host chose. Its `--info` adds the **measured clock**
the loader's bit-period unit, decoded and multiplied by the session rate —
which is the number an `OSCCAL` bake or a fixed-baud build for the part is
held against; `--clock <hz>` states the drift against a nominal.
`--scan` is the diagnosis once a fixed-baud loader has gone silent: it walks
±10 % around `--baud` in 2 % steps, nearest first, one probe per activation
window — reset the target as each probe announces itself (a board with DTR
wired to reset is pulsed by the probe's own port-open). A loader
off-frequency answers at its oscillator's ratio, and the report gives the
found rate as the session workaround, the offset, the OSCCAL correction's
direction at ~1 % per step, and the autobaud way out. Standalone — no other
operation combines with it.
`--peek ADDR[:N]` and `--poke ADDR:HEX` reach the data space (pureboot 5) —
SRAM, and through the same address space the register file and every I/O