//! UART0 as the editor's terminal: bytes out, bytes in, and nothing else. //! //! This is the whole of the firmware's I/O. There is no framebuffer and no keyboard; the board //! emits ANSI and consumes ANSI, and the terminal emulator on the far end of the CH340 does the //! rest of the work - including answering the editor's own capability queries, which travel down //! this wire like any other bytes. //! //! Deliberately not a `std.Io.Writer`. The ANSI encoding lives on the other side of the C ABI, next //! to the vaxis that produces it (see `src/pardes/app.zig` for why the seam is there and not //! elsewhere), so what crosses into this file is already a finished run of bytes. A writer here //! would be a second buffer in front of one that already exists. //! //! Two decisions worth stating, because both are measurements rather than preferences. //! //! **Batched FIFO access.** The naive push is `while (txFree() == 0) {}` then `pushByte`, once per //! byte: one MMIO read per byte at best, many while the FIFO is full. Reading `txFree` once and //! then pushing that many cuts the status reads by up to the FIFO depth (128, `hal/uart.zig:52`). //! At 115200 the wire costs ~86 us per byte and dwarfs either version, so today this is merely //! free - and it stops being free the moment the divider is raised. //! //! **UART0's configuration is never touched.** Not the divider, not the format, not the pad //! routing, and above all not `reset()`. The second-stage bootloader configured this block, and //! `hal/uart.zig:195-211` records what happens if it is reset: UART_CLKDIV returns to its power-on //! value, the console turns to garbage mid-sentence, and the board takes a watchdog reset with //! nothing readable left to explain it. Everything here touches FIFO offset 0x000 and the status //! register, and nothing else. const hal = @import("hal"); /// UART0: the instance the CH340 is wired to, and the one the ROM and bootloader configured. const uart0 = hal.uart.Uart.init(0); /// Push `bytes` into the TX FIFO, blocking while it is full. /// /// The spin is normally bounded by the wire - a full 128-byte FIFO drains in 11 ms at 115200 - and /// dropping instead of waiting would truncate an escape sequence, leaving the host terminal in the /// wrong colour for the rest of the session. So the wait is real backpressure. /// /// But it is BOUNDED, for the reason `hal/uart.zig:182-186` gives about `update()`: a UART whose /// core clock has been gated never makes progress, and "on a board with no debugger an infinite /// spin is indistinguishable from a crash". That is not hypothetical here - it is how this port /// spent an afternoon: output stopped mid-boot with no panic and no watchdog (the RTC watchdog /// having been correctly disabled), which looked like a hang in whatever code came next rather than /// a stalled transmitter. A bounded wait turns that into visibly dropped output plus a counter, /// which is a diagnosis instead of a mystery. /// /// The limit is per burst, not per call, and generous: 1,000,000 status reads is far longer than /// any legitimate drain and still a fraction of a second. pub fn write(bytes: []const u8) void { var rest = bytes; while (rest.len > 0) { // One status read per burst, not per byte. var room = uart0.txFree(); var spins: u32 = 0; while (room == 0) { spins += 1; if (spins > 1_000_000) { dropped +%= @intCast(rest.len); return; } room = uart0.txFree(); } const n = @min(room, rest.len); for (rest[0..n]) |b| uart0.pushByte(b); rest = rest[n..]; } } /// Bytes abandoned because the transmitter stopped making progress. Nonzero means the console is /// lying about what happened, so it is worth printing. pub var dropped: u32 = 0; /// One byte, for callers that must not touch `.rodata` to say anything - which during bring-up is /// the difference between a diagnostic and a second copy of the bug being diagnosed. pub fn writeByte(b: u8) void { var spins: u32 = 0; while (uart0.txFree() == 0) { spins += 1; if (spins > 1_000_000) { dropped +%= 1; return; } } uart0.pushByte(b); } /// Emit `n` bytes read from `addr` as two hex digits each, computing the digits arithmetically so /// nothing here reads a lookup table. Used to answer "does a load from this address return what the /// linker put there", which is not a question a string literal can be trusted to ask. pub fn dumpHex(addr: u32, n: u32) void { const p: [*]const volatile u8 = @ptrFromInt(addr); var i: u32 = 0; while (i < n) : (i += 1) { const byte = p[i]; for ([2]u8{ byte >> 4, byte & 0xf }) |nib| { writeByte(if (nib < 10) '0' + nib else 'a' + (nib - 10)); } } writeByte('\r'); writeByte('\n'); } /// A u32 as eight hex digits, reading no memory at all. pub fn dumpWord(v: u32) void { var shift: u5 = 28; while (true) { const nib: u8 = @intCast((v >> shift) & 0xf); writeByte(if (nib < 10) '0' + nib else 'a' + (nib - 10)); if (shift == 0) break; shift -= 4; } writeByte('\r'); writeByte('\n'); } /// Move whatever the host has sent into `buf`, without waiting. Returns the count. /// /// Non-blocking on purpose: the loop has a frame to render and a core to pump, and the editor must /// not stall on a keystroke that may never come. `rxCount` is read once per call and the FIFO /// drained to that mark, so a fast typist or a pasted buffer cannot hold the loop here. pub fn read(buf: []u8) usize { const waiting = @min(uart0.rxCount(), buf.len); for (buf[0..waiting]) |*slot| slot.* = uart0.popByte(); return waiting; } /// Discard anything already received, returning how much. Used once at startup: the host-side /// bridge injects a window-size report before this program exists, and the bootloader's chatter has /// already been echoed at the host. Neither is user input. /// /// Pops rather than calling `resetRxFifo`, which is a CONF0_SYNC read-modify-write plus two commits /// on the console UART - see this file's header. pub fn drainInput() u32 { var discarded: u32 = 0; while (uart0.rxCount() > 0) : (discarded += 1) _ = uart0.popByte(); return discarded; } /// The rate the hardware is actually producing, by reading its dividers back. Reported rather than /// assumed: the host has to be opened at the same rate, and a mismatch shows up as garbage on the /// screen rather than as an error anyone can act on. pub fn baudrate() u32 { return uart0.baudrate(uart0.clockSource().nominalHz()); }