HALF_DUPLEX deploys a shared line per backend. The hardware USART takes
the library's .half_duplex turn-around — RXD and TXD tied off-chip, each
reply byte held to transmit-complete before the line can be released
(m8 404 B, m328P 440, 1284P 460; the window poll runs through the
outlined release-line call at 18 or 22 cycles a poll, measured off the
built loops and held per chip by pureboot.window.halfduplex). The
software and autobaud links fold onto the RX pin — RX == TX spells the
same — and cost nothing: the frame's direction wrap is what the dropped
second-pin init paid, and the worst image in the space is unchanged at
the 1284s' 502 of 512, now with its one-wire twin proven equal across
the exhaustive matrix. The host gains --one-wire, the echo discard a
shared line requires: the adapter's echo is matched byte for byte and a
reply interleaving a blind write — a loader already in session
re-prompts inside the knock — is held for the reader. The device runner
models the shared line by direction (drives only while the firmware's
DDR reads input, decodes only while the firmware owns it, supplies the
host-side echo), extends the USART pin-ownership model to RXEN's hold
on RXD, and starts the pty USART from the datasheet's zeroed UCSR#B:
simavr's TXEN-set reset plus its clear-UDRE-on-TXEN-drop otherwise
wedges the first transmitter after a receiver-only program, which the
half-duplex window gate caught as a banner that never came. v7 is
tagged at its era's last commit; v8 changes nothing on the wire.
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The window's per-poll cycle counts were hand-counted for a uint32_t
countdown, but every default window fits uint24_t, whose decrement chain
is one sbci shorter — so deployed loaders ran 9/10ths of their stated
seconds (a 328P's 8 s was 7.2 s on the wire). No golden-asm pin can hold
this: the loops compile in consumer context. pbwindow.py measures the
behavior instead: it installs a real application beside the loader
through the host tool's own plan_flash (surgery included), starts the
simulator with the line idle, and reads the cycle of the first transmit
— the application's banner, so that cycle is the window. Held at plus or
minus 2 percent per chip (pureboot.window), red at -10.0 percent against
the old constants, green with poll_cycles now counted for the narrow
countdown (hardware 9, software 7; window_polls() solves narrow-first
and adds the wide loop's cycle where the count forces uint32_t — a count
narrow only at the wide cost stays wide, so the choice cannot
oscillate). The autobaud window is its poll budget at the measured ten
cycles a poll, gated the same way (pureboot.window.autobaud), and the
README carries that arithmetic now. No version bump: timing-window
precision is not meaningful behavior, v7 stays.
The gate flushed out two runner gaps. The software bridge accepted any
falling edge as a start bit, so the device's own TX-init glitch decoded
as a stray byte; it re-samples mid-bit now and abandons a false start,
as silicon does. And after avr_reset, the idle-line re-raise was
silently dropped: ioport pin irqs are IRQ_FLAG_FILTERED and the irq's
cached value survives the reset the port latch does not, so the device
read the line stuck low, calibrate() measured reset-to-first-edge as one
wrapping pulse, and the first knock after a reset could boot the
application instead of locking — the intermittent autobaud failure.
bridge_reset forces a real transition (0 then 1, no cycles between).
The README's Autobaud column now carries each chip's worst
configuration — autobaud with OSCCAL baked, on a USART's own pins where
the chip has one (tinies: autobaud + OSCCAL) — the numbers the existing
pureboot_autobaud_osccal[_on_usart0] matrix points already gate;
sizes.py checks the column against exactly those targets. Tool sizes
and window prose updated with it.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
pureboot_device and the tsb device, C until now, rewritten in C++23 with
every modeled behavior intact — the PGERS Z-mask and m48-discard ioctl
wraps, the GPIO bridge's timing and pacing, the tiny NVM's write-once
buffer, pin ownership, and the PB_PTY/TSB_PTY lines the harnesses parse.
The one linkage fact worth a comment: simavr's parts headers (uart_pty.h)
carry no C++ guards where its core headers do, so those includes sit in an
extern "C" block. Warning-clean at -Wall -Wextra on the build line; the
full protocol suites on all four sim-driven chips prove the conversion.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
