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bootloader/test/test_update_link.py
BlackMark 77dd45aeca pureboot.py: an update follows the staging copy onto its own link
--update-loader works by entering copies of the *new* image and letting them
rewrite the resident. Those copies speak the link they were built for, but the
host went on knocking with the session's baud and backend — the resident's. Where
the image changed either, the staging copy was installed and then never answered:
resident untouched, and on a 1 KiB tiny the staging slot is the whole application
region, so the application was already gone.

The wire cannot be probed for it. 512 bytes of position-independent code carry no
header saying what rate they were built for, so the operator declares it:
--staged-baud and --staged-autobaud, applied from the jump into the staging copy
onward. Retuning goes through the open port — SetCommState or tcsetattr on the
live handle, never a reopen — because a DTR pulse would reset the copy being
talked to. Undeclared against a changed link it still cannot work, but the error
now names that as the cause instead of reporting the bare activation timeout that
sent the operator looking at wiring.

The README's idempotence claim needed the same qualification: from step 2 a
re-run must reach the new image, and after step 3 word 0 points at the staging
copy, so on a patched-vector part the resident's link reaches nothing at all.

Found on an ATtiny13A, where two controls differing only in the activation window
updated cleanly and so isolated the link as the variable.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-07-27 16:31:27 +02:00

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
"""Self-update across a link change: the host must follow the staging copy.
`--update-loader` installs the new image in the staging slot and then *enters
it* to have it rewrite the resident. That copy is the new image, so it speaks the
new image's baud and backend — but the host was talking to the *resident*. Where
the two differ, the host kept knocking at the old rate in the old mode, the
staging copy never answered, and the update stranded: staging installed, resident
untouched, and on a 1 KiB tiny the application region (which *is* the staging
slot there) already gone.
The wire cannot be probed for this — 512 bytes of position-independent code carry
no header saying what rate they were built for — so the operator declares it, and
a mismatch with nothing declared has to say so instead of reporting a bare
timeout.
Stdlib only, no device: host-tool logic, so it runs on every chip's preset beside
pureboot.planner.
"""
import importlib.util
import pathlib
PB = pathlib.Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "pureboot" / "pureboot.py"
_spec = importlib.util.spec_from_file_location("pureboot", PB)
pb = importlib.util.module_from_spec(_spec)
_spec.loader.exec_module(pb)
IDENTITY = b"\x05\x1e\x95\x0f" # pureboot 5 + m328p signature
P = F = 0
def check(name, ok, detail=""):
global P, F
P, F = P + (1 if ok else 0), F + (0 if ok else 1)
print(f" [{'PASS' if ok else 'FAIL'}] {name}" + (f"{detail}" if detail else ""))
class TwoLinkPort:
"""A board whose resident and staging copy answer on different links.
Only the rate currently set decides who can be heard, which is the physical
truth: a loader's bit timing is a cycle count, so a copy built for another
rate is unreadable until the host retunes. The knock bytes carry the mode, so
a backend mismatch is caught the same way.
"""
def __init__(self, resident=(57600, False), staged=(38400, False)):
self.resident, self.staged = resident, staged
self.baud = resident[0]
self.entered = False # a 'J' has handed control to the staging copy
self.switches = [] # every retune the host asked for
self.pending = bytearray() # what the device has queued to send
# --- the part under test needs this to exist at all
def set_baud(self, baud):
self.baud = baud
self.switches.append(baud)
def flush_input(self):
self.pending.clear()
def _audible(self, knock=None):
baud, autobaud = self.staged if self.entered else self.resident
if self.baud != baud:
return False
if knock is None:
return True
return knock == (bytes((pb.CALIBRATE, ord("p"))) if autobaud else b"pb")
def write(self, data):
data = bytes(data)
if data[:1] == b"J" and len(data) == 3:
# The resident acks the jump, then control moves to the copy.
if self._audible():
self.pending += pb.PROMPT
self.entered = True
elif data in (b"pb", bytes((pb.CALIBRATE, ord("p")))):
if self._audible(data):
self.pending += pb.PROMPT
elif data == b"b":
if self._audible():
self.pending += IDENTITY + pb.PROMPT
def read_available(self, wait):
out, self.pending = bytes(self.pending), bytearray()
return out
def read_exact(self, count, timeout):
if len(self.pending) < count:
raise pb.Error(f"timeout: got {len(self.pending)} of {count} bytes")
out, self.pending = bytes(self.pending[:count]), self.pending[count:]
return out
def connected(port):
"""A Loader already in session with the resident."""
loader = pb.Loader(port)
loader.connect(2.0)
return loader
def main():
# The control first: where the staged image keeps the resident's link, the
# flow works and needs no retune. This is the case that always passed, and
# it is what made the bug look like "self-update is broken" rather than
# "self-update cannot change the link".
port = TwoLinkPort(resident=(57600, False), staged=(57600, False))
loader = connected(port)
try:
loader.enter_copy(0x7C00, 2.0)
check("same link: staging copy entered", True)
except pb.Error as error:
check("same link: staging copy entered", False, str(error))
# A baud change, declared. The host must retune before knocking.
port = TwoLinkPort(resident=(57600, False), staged=(38400, False))
loader = connected(port)
try:
loader.enter_copy(0x7C00, 2.0, link=(38400, False))
check("baud change declared: entered after retuning", 38400 in port.switches,
f"switches={port.switches}")
except (pb.Error, TypeError) as error:
check("baud change declared: entered after retuning", False, repr(error))
# A backend change, declared: the knock itself has to become the calibration
# pulse, or an autobaud staging copy never hears a thing.
port = TwoLinkPort(resident=(57600, False), staged=(57600, True))
loader = connected(port)
try:
loader.enter_copy(0x7C00, 2.0, link=(57600, True))
check("backend change declared: entered as autobaud", True)
except (pb.Error, TypeError) as error:
check("backend change declared: entered as autobaud", False, repr(error))
# Nothing declared against a changed link: it still cannot work, but the
# error has to name the cause. A bare "no answer" sent the operator looking
# at the wiring while the application region sat erased.
port = TwoLinkPort(resident=(57600, False), staged=(38400, False))
loader = connected(port)
try:
loader.enter_copy(0x7C00, 0.3)
check("undeclared mismatch: reported", False, "unexpectedly succeeded")
except pb.Error as error:
text = str(error).lower()
check("undeclared mismatch: error names the link, not just a timeout",
"link" in text or "baud" in text or "backend" in text, str(error))
except TypeError as error:
check("undeclared mismatch: error names the link, not just a timeout",
False, repr(error))
# The resident's own link must be restored for the caller: a declared
# staging link is for the copy, and the tool talks to the new resident after.
port = TwoLinkPort(resident=(57600, False), staged=(38400, False))
loader = connected(port)
try:
loader.enter_copy(0x7C00, 2.0, link=(38400, False))
check("session records the link it is now speaking", loader.baud == 38400,
f"loader.baud={getattr(loader, 'baud', None)}")
except (pb.Error, TypeError, AttributeError) as error:
check("session records the link it is now speaking", False, repr(error))
print(f"\n {P} passed, {F} failed")
return 1 if F else 0
if __name__ == "__main__":
raise SystemExit(main())