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bootloader/test/pbwindow.py
BlackMark 8e7cc86fb3 pureboot: the activation window gets a behavioral gate, and honest per-poll constants under it
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>
2026-07-30 16:05:42 +02:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""The activation window as a behavioral duration gate.
The loader's window is a counted poll loop whose per-poll cost is hand-counted
in the source (`link::poll_cycles`) — but the loop compiles in consumer
context, so only the running image can prove the count. This test installs a
real application beside the loader (the host tool's own `plan_flash` supplies
the reset-vector surgery), starts the simulator with the line idle, and reads
the cycle of the first transmit activity: nothing talks until the window
closes and the application banners, so that cycle *is* the window, give or
take a banner lead measured in microseconds. Asserted at ±2 % — one
mis-counted cycle per poll shifts a window by 10 % and more.
Fixed-baud loaders declare their window in seconds (--seconds, the build's
TIMEOUT). The autobaud loader's window is its calibration poll budget
(--autobaud-polls); the seconds it amounts to are budget × 10 / f_cpu, the
measured cost of the calibrate() wait loop this gate pins.
"""
import argparse
import importlib.util
import pathlib
import select
import sys
import time
sys.path.insert(0, str(pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parent))
from pbsim import Device
# The calibrate() budget loop's cycles per poll in the built image — what the
# README's window arithmetic rests on, verified here.
AUTOBAUD_POLL_CYCLES = 10
def load_tool(path):
spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("pureboot", path)
module = importlib.util.module_from_spec(spec)
spec.loader.exec_module(module)
return module
def compose_flash(pb, loader_bytes, app_bytes, mcu, base, page):
"""The flash image a completed programming session leaves: application
(with the tinies' vector surgery), loader at base — built through the
host tool's own planner so the surgery is the shipped one, not a copy."""
flash_size = base + pb.SLOT
patch = not mcu.startswith("atmega") or mcu.startswith("atmega48")
word_flash = flash_size > 0x10000
wire_base = base // 2 if word_flash else base
flags = (1 if patch else 0) | (2 if word_flash else 0)
raw = bytes((ord("P"), ord("B"), 5, 0, 0, 0, page & 0xFF,
wire_base & 0xFF, wire_base >> 8, 0, 0, flags))
info = pb.Info(raw)
flash = bytearray(b"\xff" * flash_size)
for address, content in pb.plan_flash(app_bytes, info).items():
flash[address:address + len(content)] = content
flash[base:base + len(loader_bytes)] = loader_bytes
return bytes(flash)
def first_tx_cycle(device, deadline):
"""The PB_WINDOW_TX report, or None. The runner prints it once."""
stream = device.proc.stdout
while True:
remaining = deadline - time.monotonic()
if remaining <= 0:
return None
ready, _, _ = select.select([stream], [], [], remaining)
if not ready:
return None
line = stream.readline()
if not line:
return None
if line.startswith("PB_WINDOW_TX"):
return int(line.split()[1])
def main():
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
parser.add_argument("--device", required=True)
parser.add_argument("--loader", required=True)
parser.add_argument("--mcu", required=True)
parser.add_argument("--hz", type=int, required=True)
parser.add_argument("--base", required=True)
parser.add_argument("--page", type=int, required=True)
parser.add_argument("--baud", type=int, required=True)
parser.add_argument("--app", required=True)
parser.add_argument("--tool", required=True)
parser.add_argument("--workdir", required=True)
parser.add_argument("--link", default=None)
parser.add_argument("--seconds", type=float, default=None)
parser.add_argument("--autobaud-polls", type=int, default=None)
args = parser.parse_args()
if (args.seconds is None) == (args.autobaud_polls is None):
parser.error("exactly one of --seconds / --autobaud-polls")
pb = load_tool(args.tool)
base = int(args.base, 0)
expected = (args.seconds if args.seconds is not None
else args.autobaud_polls * AUTOBAUD_POLL_CYCLES / args.hz)
work = pathlib.Path(args.workdir)
work.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
# Every loader target objcopies its slot content beside the ELF (.bin).
loader_bytes = pathlib.Path(args.loader + ".bin").read_bytes()
app_bytes = pathlib.Path(args.app).read_bytes()
flash_file = work / "window-flash.bin"
flash_file.write_bytes(compose_flash(pb, loader_bytes, app_bytes, args.mcu, base, args.page))
device = Device(args.device, args.loader, args.mcu, str(args.hz), args.base, args.page,
args.baud, str(work / "window-dump.bin"), resume=str(flash_file),
link=args.link, window=True)
try:
# Simulation speed is machine-dependent; a few hundred thousand
# cycles per wall second is the pessimistic floor.
budget = max(60.0, expected * args.hz / 300000)
cycle = first_tx_cycle(device, time.monotonic() + budget)
finally:
device.stop()
if cycle is None:
print(f" [FAIL] no transmit activity within {budget:.0f} s wall "
f"(expected a {expected:.2f} s window)")
return 1
measured = cycle / args.hz
error = (measured - expected) / expected
ok = abs(error) <= 0.02
print(f" [{'PASS' if ok else 'FAIL'}] window {measured:.3f} s vs declared "
f"{expected:.3f} s ({error:+.1%}, gate ±2%)")
return 0 if ok else 1
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(main())