// pureboot — a serial bootloader on libavr, pure by constraint: one C++ // source with no inline assembly and no global register variables, built for // every chip libavr targets, 512 bytes on each. The device speaks primitives // — read/program flash, read/write EEPROM, fuse bytes, an info block, a jump // — and everything composite (verify, erase, reset-vector surgery, updating // the loader itself) lives in the host tool. Protocol reference: README.md // next to this file. // // The image is position-independent: control flow is PC-relative, the write // and read paths take wire addresses, the write guard refuses the 512-byte // slot the code is *running* in (taken from the runtime return address), the // info block is read relative to that same anchor, and the application jump // is an indirect call to an absolute entry. The identical binary therefore // runs from any 512-byte slot with every command intact: flashed one slot // below the resident loader it becomes the staging loader that rewrites the // resident — how pureboot updates itself, host-driven, with no other // firmware involved. // // Entry: reset lands in avr::startup::entry below (BOOTRST on the // boot-sectioned megas; the patched reset vector — or erased flash walking // up into the loader — on the tinies and the boot-section-less m48s). A // watchdog reset hands straight to the application. Otherwise the // host has one activation window per awaited knock byte ("pb"); an idle line // boots the application. A session then stays in the command loop until 'J' // jumps away or the chip resets. #include using namespace avr::literals; namespace spm = avr::spm; namespace ee = avr::eeprom; namespace pureboot { namespace { // Purely polled — interrupts stay off, every guard folds to nothing. constexpr auto off = avr::irq::guard_policy::unused; constexpr std::uint8_t ack = '+'; // Per-deployment personality, passed in by the build — pureboot_add_loader() // (the CMake function next to this file) resolves the defaults: the clock the // board actually runs, the wire baud, the serial backend and its pins. The // device signature needs no configuring — it comes from the chip database // (avr::hw::db.signature), the only universal source, since the tiny13A // cannot even read its signature row from code. #if !defined(PUREBOOT_CLOCK_HZ) || !defined(PUREBOOT_BAUD) #error \ "PUREBOOT_CLOCK_HZ and PUREBOOT_BAUD select this build's clock and baud — create loader targets with pureboot_add_loader() (README.md)" #endif using dev = avr::device<{.clock = avr::hertz_t{PUREBOOT_CLOCK_HZ}}>; constexpr avr::baud_t wire_baud{PUREBOOT_BAUD}; // The watchdog reset flag's home: MCUSR, or the classic megas' MCUCSR. consteval std::int16_t wdrf_field() { auto reg = std::string_view{avr::hw::db.regs[static_cast(avr::power::detail::reset_reg())].name}; return avr::hw::db.field_index(reg, "WDRF"); } // Geometry: the resident loader owns the top slot of flash — 512 bytes, // except on the >64 KiB chips whose own smallest boot sector is 1 KiB (the // 1284s): there the slot is 1 KiB, matching the hardware boundary the // 512-byte figure comes from everywhere else. The word below the slot is // the trampoline (the application's relocated reset vector) on chips // without a hardware boot section — the tinies and the m48s, whose SPM // runs from anywhere (Atmel-8271 §26). A boot section also means the CPU // runs on while the RWW section programs; everywhere else it halts through // the operation. constexpr std::uint16_t slot_bytes = spm::flash_bytes > 65536 ? 1024 : 512; constexpr std::uint32_t base = spm::flash_bytes - slot_bytes; constexpr std::uint16_t page = spm::page_bytes; constexpr bool boot_section = avr::hw::curated::has_boot_section(); // Past 64 KiB a byte address no longer fits the wire's 16 bits, so on the // large chips every flash address on the wire — and all slot arithmetic — // is a word address instead ('J' always was one). A slot spans the same // wire-high-byte pair in either unit (512 B = 2 x 256 bytes, 1 KiB = // 2 x 256 words), so the slot index is the high byte with its low bit // dropped everywhere. constexpr bool word_flash = spm::flash_bytes > 65536; constexpr std::uint16_t wire_base = word_flash ? static_cast(base / 2) : static_cast(base); constexpr std::uint16_t wire_page_mask = word_flash ? (page / 2 - 1) : (page - 1); // The activation window, in seconds, is a compile-time constant (the build // may override it): the whole EEPROM belongs to the application, and // re-timing the loader is a bootloader self-update with a re-timed binary. #if !defined(PUREBOOT_TIMEOUT) #define PUREBOOT_TIMEOUT 8 #endif constexpr std::uint8_t timeout_seconds = PUREBOOT_TIMEOUT; // The 12-byte info block the host reads with the 'b' command, flash-resident // through flash_table (there is no crt to copy a .data image, and its storage // carries the word alignment 'b' needs to halve the address on the large // chips). The page byte is the wire count convention: 0 means 256. inline constexpr avr::flash_table{ 'P', 'B', 1, // magic, protocol version avr::hw::db.signature[0], avr::hw::db.signature[1], avr::hw::db.signature[2], static_cast(page), wire_base & 0xff, wire_base >> 8, // app flash ends here; resident loader base (a word address on large chips) avr::hw::db.mem.eeprom_size & 0xff, avr::hw::db.mem.eeprom_size >> 8, // bit 0: host must patch the reset vector (no hardware boot section); // bit 1: flash wire addresses are word addresses static_cast((boot_section ? 0 : 1) | (word_flash ? 2 : 0)), }> info_data; // The serial link. PUREBOOT_USART forces a hardware USART instance, // PUREBOOT_SOFT_SERIAL the polled software UART (no vector — the table // belongs to the application) on PUREBOOT_RX/PUREBOOT_TX; with neither, the // chip's first USART where it has one and the software UART elsewhere. Both // are class templates on the clock so only the selected backend is ever // instantiated. pending() is the cheap line test the activation window // polls; rx() then picks the byte up; drain() holds until the last // transmitted frame is fully on the wire (the jump hand-over must not let // the target's re-init clip the ack). #if defined(PUREBOOT_SOFT_SERIAL) && defined(PUREBOOT_USART) #error "PUREBOOT_SOFT_SERIAL and PUREBOOT_USART select opposing serial backends" #endif #if !defined(PUREBOOT_RX) #define PUREBOOT_RX pb0 #endif #if !defined(PUREBOOT_TX) #define PUREBOOT_TX pb1 #endif #if defined(PUREBOOT_USART) constexpr char usart_digit = '0' + PUREBOOT_USART; #else constexpr char usart_digit = '0'; #endif template struct hardware_link { using uart = avr::uart::usart; // The compiled idle poll: lds UCSR0A (2), sbrc skipping the exit (2), // sbiw + sbci + sbci + brne (6). static constexpr std::uint8_t poll_cycles = 10; static void init() { avr::init(); } static bool pending() { return uart::rx_ready(); } static std::uint8_t rx() { return uart::read_blocking(); } static void tx(std::uint8_t byte) { uart::write(byte); } static void drain() { uart::drain(); } }; template struct software_link { using rx_t = avr::uart::software_rx_polled; using tx_t = avr::uart::software_tx; // The compiled idle poll: sbis skipping the exit (2), sbiw + sbci + // sbci + brne (6). static constexpr std::uint8_t poll_cycles = 8; static void init() { avr::init(); } static bool pending() { return rx_t::start_pending(); } static std::uint8_t rx() { return rx_t::template read_blocking(); } static void tx(std::uint8_t byte) { tx_t::template write(byte); } static void drain() { // The software transmitter returns only after the stop bit. } }; #if defined(PUREBOOT_USART) static_assert(avr::uart::has_usart(), "PUREBOOT_USART selects a hardware USART this chip does not have"); using link = hardware_link; #elif defined(PUREBOOT_SOFT_SERIAL) using link = software_link; #else using link = std::conditional_t(), hardware_link, software_link>; #endif // The application's entry, an absolute address the linker pins (--defsym in // CMakeLists.txt): 0x0000 on the mega (word 0 stays the application's own // vector — BOOTRST re-vectors a reset into the loader in hardware) and the // trampoline word at base - 2 on the tinies. Reaching it must not depend on // where this copy runs, so the jump goes through a pointer: [[gnu::noipa]] // keeps the constant from folding back into a PC-relative call. extern "C" [[noreturn]] void pureboot_app(); [[gnu::noipa, noreturn]] void jump(void (*target)()) { target(); __builtin_unreachable(); } [[gnu::noinline, noreturn]] void run_app() { jump(pureboot_app); } // One activation window is a single 32-bit poll countdown. The divisor is // the backend's counted poll-loop cycles (its own comment reads them off the // compiled loop); whole-second precision is all the window promises, so the // nearest cycle count is plenty. consteval std::uint32_t window_polls() { return timeout_seconds * static_cast(dev::clock.hz / link::poll_cycles); } bool pending_before_deadline() { std::uint32_t polls = window_polls(); do { if (link::pending()) return true; } while (--polls); return false; } // A knock byte under the activation deadline: an idle line means no host is // there, and the application runs. std::uint8_t rx_deadline() { if (!pending_before_deadline()) run_app(); return link::rx(); } // Inlined into its call sites: reading two bytes across a call otherwise // strands the first in a call-saved register the caller must push/pop; folded // into the (noreturn) command loop that cost disappears. [[gnu::always_inline]] inline std::uint16_t rx16() { std::uint16_t low = link::rx(); return static_cast(low | (link::rx() << 8)); } // The streamers take the count in the wire's 8-bit form: 0 means 256. // // Two functions, because they want opposite placement and placement is an // attribute: the byte-addressed loop is small enough to inline into both // callers, the word-addressed one stays out of line but flattened — a call to // the transmit inside it would strand the 24-bit cursor in callee-saved // registers. `word_flash` picks at the call site. [[maybe_unused, gnu::always_inline]] inline void send_flash_near(std::uint16_t address, std::uint8_t count) { do link::tx(avr::flash_load(reinterpret_cast(address++))); while (--count); } // The 24-bit cursor as the machine holds it: the RAMPZ byte and a 16-bit Z, // carried explicitly (the reassembled 32-bit address folds away inside the // inlined far load). [[maybe_unused, gnu::flatten, gnu::noinline]] void send_flash_far(std::uint16_t address, std::uint8_t count) { std::uint8_t rampz = static_cast(address >> 15); std::uint16_t z = static_cast(address << 1); do { link::tx(avr::flash_load_far((static_cast(rampz) << 16) | z)); // The protocol never reads across 64 KiB, but carrying the wrap is // smaller than the flat 32-bit cursor GCC builds without it. if (++z == 0) ++rampz; } while (--count); } [[gnu::always_inline]] inline void send_flash(std::uint16_t address, std::uint8_t count) { if constexpr (word_flash) send_flash_far(address, count); else send_flash_near(address, count); } void send_eeprom(std::uint16_t address, std::uint8_t count) { do link::tx(ee::read(address++)); while (--count); } // EEPROM write, host-paced: each ack goes out once the byte's write has // begun, so the next byte arrives while it completes and the following // write's own ready-wait sees an idle line. Nothing is ever missed, on // either serial backend, without a buffer. void store_eeprom(std::uint16_t address, std::uint8_t count) { do { ee::write(address++, link::rx()); link::tx(ack); } while (--count); } // One flash page: stream the bytes into the SPM buffer as little-endian // words, then erase and program — except the 512-byte slot this code runs // in, which is drained but never programmed, so a copy can never erase // itself. `slot_high` is the high byte of that running slot's base (run() // derives it); a broken host thus cannot brick the running loader, and a // copy flashed one slot lower may rewrite the slot above it — how pureboot // updates itself. void program_flash(std::uint16_t wire_address, std::uint8_t slot_high) { // No discard before the fill: the buffer is write-once per word // (§26.2.1), so filling over one a refused page or an application left // dirty programs stale words — but a page write auto-erases the buffer // (§26.2.1; §19.2 on the tinies), so that write clears the condition and // the host's read-back rewrites the page. // One induction either way. On the byte-addressed chips the wire address // itself walks the page (aligned, so the offset bits wrap to zero); on // the word-addressed large chips the wire word address becomes a 32-bit // byte cursor once, and their 256-byte page makes its low byte the whole // in-page offset. The slot index is one high byte of the wire address — // two values on byte-addressed chips (the & ~1), bits 16:9 re-packed on // the large ones. spm::flash_address_t address; std::uint8_t page_high; if constexpr (word_flash) { // Pages are aligned, so one page never crosses a 64 KiB boundary: // RAMPZ is a per-page constant and the fill cursor is a 16-bit Z // whose low byte is the whole in-page offset (256-byte pages). The // slot index is simply the wire word address's high byte. const std::uint8_t rampz = static_cast(wire_address >> 15); const std::uint16_t z0 = static_cast(wire_address << 1); std::uint16_t z = z0; do { std::uint8_t low = link::rx(); std::uint8_t high = link::rx(); spm::fill((static_cast(rampz) << 16) | z, static_cast(low | (high << 8))); z += 2; } while (static_cast(z)); address = (static_cast(rampz) << 16) | z0; page_high = static_cast(wire_address >> 8) & 0xfe; } else { address = static_cast(wire_address); do { std::uint8_t low = link::rx(); std::uint8_t high = link::rx(); spm::fill(address, static_cast(low | (high << 8))); address += 2; } while (static_cast(address) & (page - 1)); address -= 2; // back inside the page — erase and write ignore the word bits page_high = static_cast(address >> 8) & 0xfe; } if (page_high != slot_high) { // The tinies and the m48s halt the CPU through the erase and the // write, so only the boot-sectioned megas — running on while their // RWW section programs — wait. spm::erase_page(address); if constexpr (boot_section) spm::wait(); spm::write_page(address); if constexpr (boot_section) spm::wait(); } // The megas program with their RWW section disabled; reads need it back // on. The same store discards the buffer (§26.2.2), so they never meet // the stale-word case above. boot_section implies an RWW section. if constexpr (boot_section) spm::rww_enable(); } // The four fuse/lock bytes in the hardware's own Z order: low, lock, // extended, high. Writing fuses is not a thing self-programming can do on // AVR — SPM reaches flash (and boot lock bits) only. void send_fuses() { std::uint8_t which = 0; do link::tx(spm::read_fuse(static_cast(which))); while (++which & 3); } [[noreturn]] void run() { // A watchdog reset belongs to the application (whose watchdog stays // forced on until it clears WDRF) — no activation window in its way. // The flag register is MCUSR, or the classic megas' MCUCSR. if (avr::hw::field_impl::test()) run_app(); link::init(); // The high byte of the 512-byte-aligned base this copy runs at: the // return address is a word address, whose high byte is the 256-word slot // index — on byte-addressed chips doubled back into byte terms. // program_flash refuses this one slot and the info block is addressed // from it, so both follow wherever the code was flashed. The high byte is // spelled as byteswap's low byte: the builtin's value is itself built by // swapping the two stacked bytes, and the double swap folds to the single // byte pick a hand assembler writes — `>> 8` leaves the swap materialized. const std::uint16_t ra_words = reinterpret_cast(__builtin_return_address(0)); const std::uint8_t ra_high = static_cast(std::byteswap(ra_words)); const std::uint8_t slot_high = word_flash ? ra_high & 0xfe : static_cast(ra_high << 1); // The knock: 'p' then 'b', each under a fresh window; any other byte is // line noise and waits again. Falling out of a window runs the app. while (rx_deadline() != 'p' || rx_deadline() != 'b') { } for (;;) { // No prompt while an EEPROM write runs: a pending write blocks SPM // and fuse reads (§26.2.1), and the ack tells the host all is done. ee::wait(); link::tx(ack); const std::uint8_t command = link::rx(); switch (command) { case 'b': { // info block, read relative to the running slot // The block sits in the image's first 256 bytes (the build lint // asserts it), and slots are 512-aligned — so the low byte of its // link address (in wire units: bytes, or words on the large // chips) is its offset in any slot, and the high byte of its // runtime address is the running slot's. Composed from the two // bytes — the high half is runtime data, so no absolute address // is ever materialized. const auto link_low = reinterpret_cast(info_data.storage.data()); const std::uint8_t low = word_flash ? static_cast(link_low >> 1) : static_cast(link_low); send_flash(static_cast(low | (slot_high << 8)), static_cast(info_data.size())); break; } case 'J': { // jump to a wire word address: hand-over and staging transfer auto target = reinterpret_cast(rx16()); link::tx(ack); link::drain(); jump(target); } case 'R': // read flash: addr16, n8 (0 = 256) case 'r': // read EEPROM: addr16, n8 case 'w': { // write EEPROM: addr16, n8, then n bytes each acked std::uint16_t address = rx16(); std::uint8_t count = link::rx(); if (command == 'R') send_flash(address, count); else if (command == 'r') send_eeprom(address, count); else store_eeprom(address, count); break; } case 'W': // program one flash page: addr16, page bytes program_flash(rx16(), slot_high); break; case 'F': // fuse and lock bytes send_fuses(); break; default: // unknown bytes are ignored; the loop re-acks break; } } } } // namespace } // namespace pureboot template struct avr::startup::entry;