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bootloader/test/pbtest.py
BlackMark 2cc540c6a1 pureboot: the unified autobaud loader, and the hang that settled the decision
Hardware testing found that a lone calibration pulse wedged the autobaud loader:
run() budgeted only the start-edge wait in measure(), and the rx() that read the
knock behind it was unbudgeted, so one stray low pulse held an unattended device
in the loader and the application never ran. Bound the whole activation — an
expired knock budget returns a byte that cannot be the knock, so control falls
back into the budgeted measure() and an idle line boots the app there.

That fix costs ~22 B, which neither version under review could absorb: the pure
one goes 508 -> 530 on the 1284P and the register one 512 -> 534, both over a
512 B slot. Their margin was never spare capacity, it was the space the missing
fix should have occupied. So the choice between them is moot; both are kept for
the record and no longer built.

pureboot_autobaud_uni.cpp replaces them at 464 B. It is pureboot 5: one read
command and one write command over named spaces (G/g, sel8, addr16, n8) instead
of four per-memory bodies, which collapses four transfer loops into one. The
selector's high nibble carries flash's bank, so the shared cursor stays 16 bits
and no command speaks word addresses. Three things fall out of the freed space:
RAM read/write — the missing feature, and with it arbitrary I/O access, since
AVR maps peripherals into the data space; host-issued SPM, so W's hardcoded
erase/write/RWW tail becomes three writes to a space and any SPM operation is
reachable; and W on the same selector-and-address decode as everything else.

Strictly pure throughout: no inline asm, no global register variable, and no
GPIOR either — the unit lives in a .noinit static, so the loader claims no chip
resource and the chips without GPIOR stop being a special case.

pureboot.py speaks both generations, keyed on the version, so the fixed-baud
path is untouched; --peek/--poke reach the new data space. pbautobaud.py adds a
RAM round-trip and a regression for the hang: a lone pulse must still let the
app boot. All 37 chips plus the 12-preset reflect spot set build and size-test
green, 444-466 B, worst case 46 B under budget. Sim suites 100%: 1284P 17/17,
328P 23/23. Only real-hardware acceptance remains (pureboot/autobaud.md).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-24 00:48:54 +02:00

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Python

#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""End-to-end protocol test: drive the simavr device with the real host tool
over its pty through flash, EEPROM, fuse and hand-over scenarios, and
cross-check the tool's view against the simulator's ground-truth dumps.
Usage: pbtest.py <device_bin> <pureboot_elf> <mcu> <hz> <base_hex> <page>
<baud> <eeprom_size> <app_bin> <tool_py> <workdir> [link]
The optional link is the runner's -l spec (usart1, sw:B5,B1, ...), for a
loader built off the chip's natural serial default.
"""
import os
import sys
def fail(message):
print(f"FAIL: {message}")
sys.exit(1)
def rjmp_decode(word, at, flash_words):
"""Where an rjmp word at word-address `at` lands — deliberately written
against the instruction-set definition (12-bit signed offset), not with
the host 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
def main():
args = sys.argv[1:]
link = args.pop() if len(args) == 12 else None
(device_bin, elf, mcu, hz, base_hex, page, baud, eeprom_size, app_bin, tool, workdir) = args
base, page, baud, eeprom_size = int(base_hex, 0), int(page), int(baud), int(eeprom_size)
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
os.makedirs(workdir, exist_ok=True)
ee_image = bytes(range(0xA0, 0xB0))
ee_path = os.path.join(workdir, "ee.bin")
open(ee_path, "wb").write(ee_image)
dump = os.path.join(workdir, "flash_dump.bin")
read_flash = os.path.join(workdir, "readback_flash.bin")
read_eeprom = os.path.join(workdir, "readback_eeprom.bin")
# The geometry the host will discover, for computing the expected image:
# the boot-sectioned megas need no vector surgery (the tinies and the
# boot-section-less m48s do), the large chips speak word addresses, and
# the page byte is the wire's 0-means-256.
mega = mcu.startswith("atmega")
patch = not mega or mcu.startswith("atmega48")
word_flash = base + pb.SLOT > 0x10000
wire_base = base // 2 if word_flash else base
flags = (1 if patch else 0) | (2 if word_flash else 0)
info = pb.Info(
bytes([ord("P"), ord("B"), pb.NEWEST_LOADER, 0, 0, 0, page & 0xFF])
+ bytes([wire_base & 0xFF, wire_base >> 8, eeprom_size & 0xFF, eeprom_size >> 8])
+ bytes([flags])
)
device = pbsim.Device(device_bin, elf, mcu, hz, base_hex, page, baud, dump, link=link)
try:
# Session 1: knock from reset, identify, program everything, stay.
out = pbsim.run_tool(tool, device.pty, baud, "--info", "--fuses", "--flash", app_bin,
"--eeprom", ee_path, "--stay")
for needed in ("version", "signature", "fuses", "verify:", "stays"):
if needed not in out:
fail(f"session 1 output lacks {needed!r}")
# Session 2: reconnect into the live session, verify, dump, hand over
# is deferred — the pty must be reopened for the APP banner first.
out = pbsim.run_tool(tool, device.pty, baud, "--verify-flash", app_bin, "--verify-eeprom", ee_path,
"--read-flash", read_flash, "--read-eeprom", read_eeprom, "--stay")
if out.count("verify:") != 2:
fail("session 2 did not verify both memories")
eeprom_back = open(read_eeprom, "rb").read()
if eeprom_back[: len(ee_image)] != ee_image:
fail("EEPROM read-back mismatch")
# The expected post-surgery flash, straight from the tool's planner.
pages = pb.plan_flash(open(app_bin, "rb").read(), info)
flash_back = open(read_flash, "rb").read()
for address, data in pages.items():
if flash_back[address : address + page] != data:
fail(f"flash read-back mismatch in page {address:#06x}")
# An external reset re-enters through the patched word 0 (tinies; the
# runner resets them to address 0 like silicon) or BOOTRST (mega).
# The loader must answer a fresh knock, and the 'J' hand-over must
# land in the application, which banners on the same link.
device.reset()
port = pb.Port(device.pty, baud)
try:
loader = pb.Loader(port)
live = loader.connect(15)
# The loader built from this tree must report a version the tool
# beside it speaks — a bump the tool was never told about is a
# loader it would refuse to talk to. Not equality with the newest:
# the tool now spans two loader generations, the fixed-baud one
# here and the unified autobaud loader that follows it.
if not pb.OLDEST_LOADER <= live.version <= pb.NEWEST_LOADER:
fail(f"loader reports pureboot {live.version}, the tool speaks "
f"{pb.OLDEST_LOADER}..{pb.NEWEST_LOADER}")
# A W addressed inside a page rather than at its base must still
# consume exactly one page and prompt. The loader's own slot is
# the target — it is drained and never programmed — and the
# payload is erased-state bytes, so the probe can disturb neither
# the image nor the page buffer it leaves behind.
wire = wire_base + 1
port.write(bytes((ord("W"), wire & 0xFF, wire >> 8)) + b"\xff" * page)
if port.read_exact(1, 5.0) != pb.PROMPT:
fail("unaligned W did not return to the prompt")
loader.run_application()
banner = port.read_exact(3, 5.0)
if banner != b"APP":
fail(f"application banner was {banner!r}")
finally:
port.close()
finally:
device.stop()
# Ground truth: the simulator's own memories, against the host's view.
flash_true = open(dump, "rb").read()
if flash_true[:base] != flash_back:
fail("host flash read-back differs from the simulator's flash")
if flash_true[base] == 0xFF and flash_true[base + 1] == 0xFF:
fail("loader region looks erased in the ground-truth dump")
# The surgery, decoded independently: the patched vector must land on the
# loader, the trampoline on the application's own entry (patched-vector
# chips only — a boot-sectioned mega's word 0 stays the application's).
if patch:
flash_words = (base + pb.SLOT) // 2
app = open(app_bin, "rb").read()
word0 = flash_true[0] | (flash_true[1] << 8)
if rjmp_decode(word0, 0, flash_words) != base // 2:
fail("patched reset vector does not land on the loader base")
trampoline = flash_true[base - 2] | (flash_true[base - 1] << 8)
original = app[0] | (app[1] << 8)
if rjmp_decode(trampoline, (base - 2) // 2, flash_words) != rjmp_decode(original, 0, flash_words):
fail("trampoline does not land on the application's own entry")
ee_true_path = dump + ".eeprom"
if os.path.exists(ee_true_path):
ee_true = open(ee_true_path, "rb").read()
if ee_true[: len(ee_image)] != ee_image:
fail("ground-truth EEPROM does not match what was programmed")
print("pbtest: all scenarios pass")
if __name__ == "__main__":
main()