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bootloader/test/pbupdate.py
BlackMark 8f106b636d pureboot 3: a 512-byte slot on every chip, the 1284s included
The word-addressed 1284s were the one family deploying in a 1 KiB slot,
because the far-flash machinery (ELPM reads, RAMPZ page commands, a
word-addressed wire) did not fit 512 B. It does now: 478 B stock, 494 B in
the heaviest configuration the build can produce. They take the 644s'
geometry, where the smallest boot section holds the resident slot and its
staging slot together. The loader's version goes to 3; the host tool did
not change, so its own version stays 2 and only the window it speaks
widens.

Most of the saving is one restructure. The info block and a flash read are
the same act, so giving all four streamed commands one address-and-count
path leaves exactly one call site for the flash streamer: it inlines into
the never-returning command loop and its 24-bit cursor stops being saved
and restored around every transmit. Around it, the ack byte moved out of
line, the wire's byte pair is bit_cast into the word it already is, the
fuse loop ends on its count, the info block's in-slot offset is taken as
the one-byte relocation it is, and -fno-expensive-optimizations gives way
to -fno-move-loop-invariants -fno-tree-ter. Every chip shrank 14-18 B.

The size matrix grew the axes it was missing: the USART1 instance across
the whole clock ladder, and the shape a slow baud gives a software UART —
past 255 delay iterations libavr takes the 16-bit delay loop, which the
ladder default never selects and which was 4 B over the 1284's slot the
first time it was built.

The protocol fixture stopped deriving the loader entry from the flash
size; on the 1284s it had been jumping a slot low and reaching the loader
only because erased flash walked it up.

Docs and comments were consolidated across the port in the same pass: the
README carries a per-chip size table instead of prose, and prose that
restated the code is gone — 190 lines, no behaviour with it.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-22 20:49:23 +02:00

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Python

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Self-update end-to-end: an application is flashed, the loader replaces
itself with a re-timed build, and every power-fail phase is rehearsed by
killing the device mid-write, restarting it from its flash dump, and letting
a re-run complete the update.
The boot-sectioned megas run the BOOTRST-unprogrammed profile — reset boots
the application, whose 'L' is the application-owned loader entry — with
--assume-fuses standing in for the fuse read simavr cannot model.
Usage: pbupdate.py <device_bin> <pureboot_elf> <update_elf> <mcu> <hz>
<base_hex> <page> <baud> <app_bin> <tool_py> <workdir>
"""
import os
import subprocess
import sys
def fail(message):
print(f"FAIL: {message}")
sys.exit(1)
def rjmp_decode(word, at, flash_words):
"""Written against the instruction-set definition, not with the tool's
encoder, so an encoding bug cannot verify itself."""
if word & 0xF000 != 0xC000:
fail(f"word at {at * 2:#06x} is {word:#06x}, not an rjmp")
offset = word & 0x0FFF
if offset >= 0x800:
offset -= 0x1000
return (at + 1 + offset) % flash_words
class PowerFail(Exception):
pass
def assumed_fuses(pb, image):
"""Synthetic 'F' bytes for --assume-fuses: the smallest boot section
covering both the resident and the staging slot (two slots — what a
self-update needs), BOOTRST unprogrammed — the per-chip BOOTSZ ladder
and fuse byte come from the tool's own table, keyed by the update
image's embedded signature."""
info = pb.image_info(image)
which, ladder = pb.BOOT_FUSE[bytes(info.signature[1:3])]
bits = min((b for b in ladder if ladder[b] * 2 >= 2 * pb.SLOT), key=lambda b: ladder[b])
fuses = bytearray((0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF, 0xFF))
fuses[which] = 0xF8 | (bits << 1) | 1
return bytes(fuses)
def make_fault_loader(pb, base, slot, kill_region, kill_hits, device):
"""A Loader whose write_page kills the device (or, with device=None,
just the host) at the Nth write into a region; the sequence
stage->resident->stage distinguishes the install from the restore."""
class FaultLoader(pb.Loader):
def __init__(self, port):
super().__init__(port)
self.seen_resident = False
self.hits = 0
def write_page(self, address, data):
if address >= base:
phase = "resident"
self.seen_resident = True
elif address >= base - slot:
phase = "stage_restore" if self.seen_resident else "stage"
else:
phase = "app"
if phase == kill_region:
self.hits += 1
if self.hits == kill_hits:
if device is not None:
device.power_fail()
raise PowerFail(f"{kill_region} write {kill_hits}")
super().write_page(address, data)
return FaultLoader
def main():
(device_bin, elf, update_elf, mcu, hz, base_hex, page, baud, app_bin, tool, workdir) = sys.argv[1:]
base, page, baud = int(base_hex, 0), int(page), int(baud)
mega = mcu.startswith("atmega")
# The m48s are megas without a boot section: patched vector, no fuse
# preflight, and the same reset-to-0 the tinies get.
patch = not mega or mcu.startswith("atmega48")
reset_hex = "0" if mega else None # the boot-sectioned mega runs BOOTRST-unprogrammed here
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(tool)))
sys.path.insert(0, os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
import pbsim
import pureboot as pb
slot = pb.SLOT
os.makedirs(workdir, exist_ok=True)
objcopy = os.environ.get("PB_OBJCOPY", "avr-objcopy")
images = {}
for name, source in (("v0", elf), ("v9", update_elf)):
path = os.path.join(workdir, name + ".bin")
subprocess.run([objcopy, "-O", "binary", source, path], check=True)
images[name] = open(path, "rb").read()
if images["v0"] == images["v9"]:
fail("the update image is byte-identical to the resident build")
dump = os.path.join(workdir, "dump.bin")
state = os.path.join(workdir, "update.pbstate")
fuses = assumed_fuses(pb, images["v0"]) if mega and not patch else None
def connect(device):
port = pb.Port(device.pty, baud)
if mega:
# Reset boots the application here; its 'L' is the loader entry.
# To a live loader the same byte is an ignored command.
port.read_available(0.5)
port.write(b"L")
loader = pb.Loader(port)
loader.connect(25)
return port, loader
def padded(image):
return image + b"\xff" * (slot - len(image))
def resident_bytes(loader):
return loader.read_flash(base, slot)
def assert_state(loader, image, app_pages):
if resident_bytes(loader) != padded(image):
fail("resident loader does not match the update image")
stage = base - slot
got = loader.read_flash(stage, slot)
for address, data in app_pages.items():
if stage <= address < base:
if got[address - stage : address - stage + page] != data:
fail(f"staging region page {address:#06x} not restored")
device = pbsim.Device(device_bin, elf, mcu, hz, base_hex, page, baud, dump, reset_hex=reset_hex)
final = "v0"
try:
# The application first — its planner output is the restore truth.
pbsim.run_tool(tool, device.pty, baud, "--flash", app_bin, "--stay")
port, loader = connect(device)
app_pages = pb.plan_flash(open(app_bin, "rb").read(), loader.info)
port.close()
# A clean CLI update, resident -> v9.
args = ["--update-loader", os.path.join(workdir, "v9.bin"), "--state", state, "--stay"]
if fuses:
args += ["--assume-fuses", fuses.hex()]
out = pbsim.run_tool(tool, device.pty, baud, *args)
if "loader updated" not in out:
fail("update did not report success")
if os.path.exists(state):
fail("state file survived a completed update")
port, loader = connect(device)
assert_state(loader, images["v9"], app_pages)
loader.run_application()
if port.read_exact(3, 5.0) != b"APP":
fail("application does not banner after the update")
port.close()
final = "v9"
print("clean update: resident replaced, staging restored, application intact")
# Power-fail rehearsal: kill mid-phase, restart from the dump,
# re-run, and the update must still complete. Each round flips the
# direction so the flash is never already at its target. The mega's
# mid-resident-rewrite loss is exercised as a host crash instead:
# with BOOTRST unprogrammed and the resident mid-erase, a power loss
# there has no reset path into the staging copy — the documented
# cost of that profile (README).
for kill_region, kill_hits, kill_device in (
("stage", 2, True),
("resident", 1, patch),
("stage_restore", 2, True),
):
device.reset() # the previous round left the application running
port, loader = connect(device)
target = "v9" if resident_bytes(loader) == padded(images["v0"]) else "v0"
image_path = os.path.join(workdir, target + ".bin")
injected = make_fault_loader(pb, base, slot, kill_region, kill_hits, device if kill_device else None)(port)
injected.info = loader.info
try:
pb.op_update_loader(injected, 25, image_path, state, fuses)
fail(f"{kill_region}: fault never triggered")
except PowerFail as event:
print(f"power fail injected: {event}")
port.close()
if kill_device:
device = pbsim.Device(device_bin, elf, mcu, hz, base_hex, page, baud, dump,
reset_hex=reset_hex, resume=dump)
port, loader = connect(device)
pb.op_update_loader(loader, 25, image_path, state, fuses)
assert_state(loader, images[target], app_pages)
loader.run_application()
if port.read_exact(3, 5.0) != b"APP":
fail(f"{kill_region}: application lost after the resumed update")
port.close()
final = target
print(f"resumed after {kill_region} loss: update completed, application intact")
finally:
device.stop()
# Ground truth: the simulator's own flash against the final state, and
# on the patched-vector chips an independent decode of the reset routing.
flash = open(dump, "rb").read()
if flash[base : base + slot] != padded(images[final]):
fail("ground-truth resident region does not match the final image")
if patch:
flash_words = (base + slot) // 2
word0 = flash[0] | (flash[1] << 8)
if rjmp_decode(word0, 0, flash_words) != base // 2:
fail("ground-truth reset vector does not land on the loader")
app = open(app_bin, "rb").read()
trampoline = flash[base - 2] | (flash[base - 1] << 8)
if rjmp_decode(trampoline, (base - 2) // 2, flash_words) != rjmp_decode(app[0] | (app[1] << 8), 0, flash_words):
fail("ground-truth trampoline does not land on the application entry")
print("pbupdate: clean update + all power-fail phases recovered")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()