// TinySafeBoot on libavr - tier 1: pure, idiomatic C++. // // A serial flash bootloader for the ATmega328P boot section, reimplementing the // TinySafeBoot native-UART fixed-baud protocol on libavr with the full feature // set of the hand-written oracle: a watchdog-reset bail, one-wire half-duplex, // a config-page activation timeout, the password gate, emergency erase, and // config/flash/EEPROM read-write. This variant is written for clarity - // well-factored functions, no compiler-specific size hacks, no inline assembly. // The one-wire wiring, the flash-resident info block and every SPM/EEPROM lock // are libavr's to handle; the only attribute is the naked reset entry that // stands in for the absent C runtime. #include #include // SP / RAMEND for the crt-free boot entry using namespace avr::literals; namespace spm = avr::spm; namespace ee = avr::eeprom; using dev = avr::device<{.clock = 16_MHz}>; // One-wire: RX and TX share the line, exactly as the native-UART TSB expects. // 115200 at 16 MHz lands +2.1 % off, past the receiver-tolerance table the // solver holds rates to - the oracle's own deployment has run there for a // decade, so the override states that it is meant. using serial_t = dev::uart0<{ .baud = 115200_Bd, .allow_baud_error = true, .half_duplex = true, }>; inline constexpr serial_t serial{}; namespace tsb { namespace { // The loader is purely polled - it never enables interrupts - so every SPM and // EEPROM lock folds to nothing under this posture. constexpr auto off = avr::irq::guard_policy::unused; // Strict request/response: every SPM operation is waited out before the next // byte moves, so no flash operation is ever in flight at an EEPROM access - // the write procedure's step 2 has nothing to guard, the omission the // datasheet grants (DS40002061B section 8.6.3). constexpr auto no_spm = ee::spm_interlock::omitted; // The handshake bytes, identical across every TSB host. constexpr std::uint8_t confirm = '!'; constexpr std::uint8_t request = '?'; constexpr std::uint8_t knock = '@'; // Boot geometry for the 1 KB boot section (BOOTSZ=10). The page size and the // flash/EEPROM extents are the chip database's to know. app_end is the config // page (the LASTPAGE holding the app-jump vector, activation timeout and // password), one page below the boot section. constexpr std::uint16_t page = spm::page_bytes; constexpr std::uint16_t boot_bytes = 1024; constexpr std::uint16_t app_end = spm::flash_bytes - boot_bytes - page; constexpr std::uint16_t eeprom_end = avr::hw::db.mem.eeprom_size - 1; // Firmware version stamp: YY*512 + MM*32 + DD, the encoding the host decodes. constexpr std::uint16_t build_date = 26 * 512 + 7 * 32 + 20; // The 16-byte device-info block the host reads on activation. A flash_table // keeps it in progmem with no .data image (there is no crt to copy one). // clang-format off inline constexpr auto info_data = std::to_array({ 'T', 'S', 'B', build_date & 0xFF, build_date >> 8, 0xF3, // status byte (native-UART fixed-baud lineage) avr::hw::db.signature[0], avr::hw::db.signature[1], avr::hw::db.signature[2], page / 2, // page size in words (app_end / 2) & 0xFF, (app_end / 2) >> 8, // app-flash boundary, words eeprom_end & 0xFF, eeprom_end >> 8, 0xAA, 0xAA, // ATmega processor-type marker (bytes 14 == 15) }); // clang-format on using info = avr::flash_table; // The lockout-proof floor for the receive window: the oracle's F_CPU/1MHz, so // it follows the clock rather than restating it. constexpr auto act_min = static_cast(dev::clock.hz / 1'000'000); // The receive window, pre-floored where it is set. In .noinit: there is no crt // to clear a .bss image, and run() stores it before the first receive. [[gnu::section(".noinit")]] std::uint8_t window; // Bounded byte read over the one-wire line - read() releases the line to the // receiver - answering 0 on silence. That 0 falls through every compare below: // not a knock, not a confirm, not a command, so a silent host unwinds the // loader to the application from anywhere and a mid-session cable pull cannot // wedge it. The oracle lists that timeout among its own fixes, and a blocking // read is how a tier loses it. std::uint8_t rx() { std::uint16_t outer = static_cast(window) << 8; do { std::uint8_t fine = 0; do { if (auto byte = serial.read()) { return *byte; } } while (--fine); } while (--outer); return 0; } // write() takes the line and holds it until the frame is out. void tx(std::uint8_t byte) { serial.write(byte); } const std::uint8_t *flash_ptr(std::uint16_t addr) { return reinterpret_cast(addr); } // Stream `count` bytes to the host, from flash (LPM) or from EEPROM. void send_flash(std::uint16_t addr, std::uint8_t count) { while (count--) { tx(avr::flash_load(flash_ptr(addr++))); } } void send_eeprom(std::uint16_t addr, std::uint8_t count) { while (count--) { tx(ee::read(addr++)); } } // Prompt the host with '?' and report whether it answered '!'. bool request_confirm() { tx(request); return rx() == confirm; } // Stream one page from the host straight into the already-erased flash page at // `addr`, filling the SPM word buffer low byte then high - no SRAM staging, so // receiving and programming are the same loop. void store_flash_page(std::uint16_t addr) { const auto open = spm::page::begin(addr); for (std::uint16_t i = 0; i < page; i += 2) { std::uint8_t lo = rx(); std::uint8_t hi = rx(); spm::fill(open, addr + i, static_cast(lo | (hi << 8))); } spm::write_page(addr); // blocking: waits the write out } // Stream one page from the host straight into EEPROM, byte by byte. void store_eeprom_page(std::uint16_t addr) { for (std::uint16_t i = 0; i < page; ++i) { ee::write(addr + i, rx()); } } // Erase one flash page, waited out by the blocking spelling - the erase step // shared by the whole-app erase, the config-page rewrite and the emergency // wipe. void erase_page(std::uint16_t addr) { spm::erase_page(addr); } // Erase the whole application, one page at a time, top-down as the reference // loader does (unwritten pages stay erased and the host cannot observe the // order; the loop bound becomes a compare with zero). void erase_application() { for (std::uint16_t a = app_end; a != 0;) { a -= page; erase_page(a); } spm::rww_enable(); } // The application's reset vector; the linker pins it to 0x0000 (--defsym). extern "C" [[noreturn]] void tsb_app(); // Run the application. Any non-command byte, a wrong password, or an idle // programmer port lands here. [[noreturn]] void appjump() { spm::wait(); // make sure any pending SPM finished before handing over tsb_app(); } // 'f': stream the application flash back, one page per host '!'. Self-terminates // at the application boundary; the host normally stops earlier with a non-'!'. void read_flash() { for (std::uint16_t a = 0; a < app_end; a += page) { if (rx() != confirm) { return; } send_flash(a, page); } } // 'e': stream EEPROM back, one page per host '!', until the host stops. void read_eeprom() { for (std::uint16_t a = 0;; a += page) { if (rx() != confirm) { return; } send_eeprom(a, page); } } // 'F': erase the whole application first, then take pages the host offers // behind '?'. void write_flash() { erase_application(); for (std::uint16_t a = 0; request_confirm(); a += page) { store_flash_page(a); } } // 'E': take pages the host offers behind '?' into EEPROM. void write_eeprom() { for (std::uint16_t a = 0; request_confirm(); a += page) { store_eeprom_page(a); } } // 'C': replace the config page, then echo it back for the host to verify. void write_config() { if (!request_confirm()) { return; } erase_page(app_end); store_flash_page(app_end); spm::rww_enable(); send_flash(app_end, page); } // Emergency erase: wipe the application flash, the EEPROM and the config page. // Reachable only from the password gate (a wrong byte can never reach it), so a // blank config still leaves the loader recoverable. void emergency_erase() { erase_application(); for (std::uint16_t a = 0; a <= eeprom_end; ++a) { ee::write(a, 0xff); } erase_page(app_end); spm::rww_enable(); } // The password gate. The config page holds the password at app_end+3, // terminated by 0xff (a blank page means no password). A byte of 0 requests // emergency erase; a wrong byte hangs the loader, still draining the line, so a // wrong password can never fall through to the erase. enum class gate : std::uint8_t { pass, emergency }; gate password_gate() { for (const std::uint8_t *pw = flash_ptr(app_end + 3);; ++pw) { std::uint8_t expected = avr::flash_load(pw); if (expected == 0xff) { return gate::pass; } std::uint8_t got = rx(); if (got == 0) { return gate::emergency; } if (got != expected) { for (;;) { rx(); } } } } [[noreturn]] void run() { // A watchdog reset hands straight back to the application, as the reference // loader does, rather than re-entering the bootloader. if (avr::hw::mcusr::wdrf.test()) { appjump(); } avr::init(); // Activation: the host knocks three '@' inside a window whose length is the // config page's timeout byte, floored so a corrupt page can never lock the // loader out. An idle port times out and boots the application; the same // window then bounds every receive of the session. window = avr::flash_load(flash_ptr(app_end + 2)) | act_min; __uint24 idle = static_cast<__uint24>(window) << 16; std::uint8_t knocks = 0; while (knocks < 3) { if (auto byte = serial.read()) { knocks = *byte == knock ? knocks + 1 : 0; } else if (--idle == 0) { appjump(); } } switch (password_gate()) { case gate::pass: send_flash(reinterpret_cast(info::storage.data()), info::size()); break; case gate::emergency: if (!request_confirm() || !request_confirm()) { appjump(); } emergency_erase(); break; } for (;;) { tx(confirm); // Mainloop ready switch (rx()) { case 'f': read_flash(); break; case 'F': write_flash(); break; case 'e': read_eeprom(); break; case 'E': write_eeprom(); break; case 'c': send_flash(app_end, page); break; case 'C': write_config(); break; default: appjump(); // 'q' or any other byte runs the application } } } } // namespace } // namespace tsb // Reset lands at the boot section base (BOOTRST): the entry stub in .vectors // is laid first and does the one line of crt a crt-less image needs. template struct avr::startup::entry;