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pureboot: the pin axis, and the mute it was hiding

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Pins move the image for exactly one reason — a bit-banged link on a USART's own
pins has to release that USART — and the matrix said outright that they were no
axis, so the tightest configuration in the space was one nothing built. Not
subtly, either: the 1284's slot ends at flash end, so that build does not merely
exceed the size test's limit, it fails to link. pureboot_{sw,autobaud}_on_usart
{0,1} are gate points in both matrix modes now, and the exhaustive sweep carries
the pins across its whole cross product. The hand-measured table is the gate's
output: 506 B of 512 for the 1284 autobaud on USART0's pins, 504 on USART1's.

pureboot.mute drives the defect itself — an application hands over with USART0
still enabled and the loader on those pins must still answer. Reaching that
needed the runner to know an enabled USART owns its TxD, which simavr does not
model at all: it wires a USART through IRQs and never takes the pin from the
port. It also brings UCSRnB up with TXEN already set where silicon clears the
register, so the runner restores the reset value for the USART it models — the
mute must come from the application, not from power-on. The fixture stays
silent, since nothing is listening on the USART it brings up.

test_handshake.py, written where no gate could run it, is pureboot.handshake.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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BlackMark
2026-07-24 22:08:56 +02:00
parent 0f00f6bdeb
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@@ -116,6 +116,17 @@ else()
math(EXPR _pb_limit "${_pb_slot} - 2")
endif()
# The pins each USART owns. A bit-banged link deployed on them has to release
# that USART before it can drive the line, and those instructions are the one
# way the choice of pins moves the image — so a size matrix needs them as an
# axis even though pins are otherwise immediate operands. Uniform across every
# mega libavr covers: USART0 (the classics' un-numbered USART included) on
# PD0/PD1, USART1 on PD2/PD3.
set(_pb_usart0_rx pd0)
set(_pb_usart0_tx pd1)
set(_pb_usart1_rx pd2)
set(_pb_usart1_tx pd3)
# simavr names its cores after the base dies; the A revisions run on them
# (the 644PA on the 644P core).
set(_pb_sim_mcu ${LIBAVR_MCU})
@@ -133,6 +144,8 @@ set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY PUREBOOT_WRAP "${_pb_wrap}")
set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY PUREBOOT_DEFAULT_HZ ${_pb_hz})
set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY PUREBOOT_HAS_USART ${_pb_has_usart})
set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY PUREBOOT_HAS_USART1 ${_pb_has_usart1})
set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY PUREBOOT_USART0_TX ${_pb_usart0_tx})
set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY PUREBOOT_USART1_TX ${_pb_usart1_tx})
# The port's own build (tests, the size matrix) reads the geometry from the
# parent scope; a downstream consumer gets the same variables for free.
@@ -145,6 +158,10 @@ set(PUREBOOT_DEFAULT_HZ ${_pb_hz} PARENT_SCOPE)
set(PUREBOOT_HAS_USART ${_pb_has_usart} PARENT_SCOPE)
set(PUREBOOT_HAS_USART1 ${_pb_has_usart1} PARENT_SCOPE)
set(PUREBOOT_SIM_MCU ${_pb_sim_mcu} PARENT_SCOPE)
set(PUREBOOT_USART0_RX ${_pb_usart0_rx} PARENT_SCOPE)
set(PUREBOOT_USART0_TX ${_pb_usart0_tx} PARENT_SCOPE)
set(PUREBOOT_USART1_RX ${_pb_usart1_rx} PARENT_SCOPE)
set(PUREBOOT_USART1_TX ${_pb_usart1_tx} PARENT_SCOPE)
# The rates a default may pick, fastest first.
set_property(GLOBAL PROPERTY PUREBOOT_BAUD_LADDER 115200 57600 38400 19200 9600)
@@ -200,7 +217,8 @@ endfunction()
# The loader target plus its flashable images (<name>.hex for a programmer,
# <name>.bin for --update-loader). The resolved deployment is stamped on the
# target as PUREBOOT_HZ / PUREBOOT_BAUD / PUREBOOT_LINK (the link spelled
# usart0, usart1 or sw:<RX>,<TX>) — what a test harness speaks to it with.
# usart0, usart1, or sw:<RX>,<TX> with a trailing @<n> where those pins are a
# USART's own) — what a test harness speaks to it with.
#
# SERIAL autobaud measures the host's bit timing at run time, so the image
# carries no clock and no baud: CLOCK and BAUD are not build parameters there,
@@ -275,11 +293,21 @@ function(pureboot_add_loader name)
else()
set(_serial_defines PUREBOOT_SOFT_SERIAL PUREBOOT_RX=${PB_RX} PUREBOOT_TX=${PB_TX})
endif()
# sw:<RX>,<TX> as port letter and bit, upcased.
# sw:<RX>,<TX> as port letter and bit, upcased — with @<n> where
# the TX pin is a USART's own TXD, since a harness driving that
# link has to know the USART owns the pin until the loader
# releases it.
string(SUBSTRING ${PB_RX} 1 2 _rx_pin)
string(SUBSTRING ${PB_TX} 1 2 _tx_pin)
string(TOUPPER "sw:${_rx_pin},${_tx_pin}" _link)
string(REPLACE "SW" "sw" _link ${_link})
get_property(_tx0 GLOBAL PROPERTY PUREBOOT_USART0_TX)
get_property(_tx1 GLOBAL PROPERTY PUREBOOT_USART1_TX)
if(_usart AND PB_TX STREQUAL _tx0)
set(_link "${_link}@0")
elseif(_usart1 AND PB_TX STREQUAL _tx1)
set(_link "${_link}@1")
endif()
endif()
endif()
if(NOT PB_BAUD)