//! UART0 transport for the editor and standalone GPIO 9P firmware. //! //! 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. //! //! WHY IT IS IN THIS REPOSITORY. It is not a UART driver - that is `hal.uart`, which stays in the //! toolchain package and is checked against ESP-IDF's own headers by `zig build diff` there. This is //! the EDITOR's use of one: which instance the console is, that the transmitter is real //! backpressure because a truncated escape sequence corrupts the host terminal, that rescued //! keystrokes must come out before FIFO ones, and that the first thing to do at startup is discard //! the host bridge's synthetic resize report. Every one of those is a statement about the editor, so //! the file moved to sit beside it. See `app.zig`'s header for the boundary in full. //! //! What it expects from the toolchain package is exactly one module: `hal`, for `hal.uart.Uart`. //! Nothing else here reaches the chip. The sibling `input_rescue.zig` is a plain file, not a module, //! because it is this repository's own policy. //! //! 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 `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, the toolchain //! package's `src/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, except by `setBaud`.** Not the format, not the pad //! routing, and above all not `reset()`. The second-stage bootloader configured this block, and //! `src/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 else here touches FIFO offset 0x000 and the //! status register, and nothing else. //! //! The editor inherits the bootloader's 115200 divider. `src/esp32p4_9p.zig` //! calls `setBaud` for its 921600 protocol connection; the host must match it. const hal = @import("hal"); const input_rescue = @import("input_rescue.zig"); /// UART0: the instance the CH340 is wired to, and the one the ROM and bootloader configured. const uart0 = hal.uart.Uart.init(0); /// Keystrokes taken off the receiver while the transmitter was full. See `input_rescue`: without /// this, anything typed into a frame longer than the 128-byte FIFO was silently gone. var rescued: input_rescue.Ring = .{}; /// 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 the toolchain package's `src/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 { dropped +%= input_rescue.pump(uart0, &rescued, bytes, 1_000_000); } /// 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; /// Push as much of `bytes` as the transmitter has room for RIGHT NOW, and answer how much. Never /// spins, never drops, never rescues — because it never waits for anything. /// /// THIS IS THE SANS-IO WRITE, and it exists because `write` above is the wrong primitive for a /// protocol server. `write` is right for a console: a frame of ANSI is atomic to the terminal on the /// far end, half an escape sequence leaves it in the wrong colour, so blocking until the whole burst /// is in the FIFO is real backpressure and worth the stall. A 9P reply is not atomic to anything: /// every message carries its own length, the reader on the far end reassembles, and /// `9p.Server.wrote(n)` exists precisely so that a partial write costs nothing but another trip /// round the loop (`src/9p.zig:2248-2257`). So this hands over what fits and returns, and /// `src/esp32p4_9p.zig`'s loop keeps the remainder queued in the server where it already was. /// /// The difference that matters is DROPPING. `write`'s bounded spin gives up after a million status /// reads and counts the loss, which turns a stalled transmitter into a diagnosable console; the same /// behaviour on a 9P stream would truncate a reply mid-message and desynchronise the connection for /// good. A short count cannot desynchronise anything. pub fn writeSome(bytes: []const u8) usize { const n = @min(@as(usize, uart0.txFree()), bytes.len); for (bytes[0..n]) |b| uart0.pushByte(b); return n; } /// Reprogram UART0's divider, and answer whether the rate is reachable from the clock this block is /// running on. Nothing is touched when it is not. /// /// THE ONE EXCEPTION to this file's rule, and see the header for who may call it: not this file, not /// `app.zig`, only an image whose host side is opened at the same rate. `docs/registry.pdf` /// `BOARD-1` has the numbers — 921600 is one `UART_CLKDIV_SYNC` write on the existing 40 MHz XTAL, /// int 43 frag 6, +0.064% error, and it takes a byte from 86.8 µs to 10.85 µs. /// /// The hazard is worth restating where the call is: the bytes already in the FIFO go out at the OLD /// rate, so anything written before this and not yet drained is corrupted, and a host that is not /// reopened sees garbage from here on with no error to report. The 9P image calls this before it /// answers its first message, which is the one moment when neither of those can have happened yet. pub fn setBaud(baud: u32) bool { return uart0.setBaudrate(baud, uart0.clockSource().nominalHz()); } /// 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 { // RESCUED BYTES FIRST. They arrived before anything still sitting in the FIFO, and an editor // that reorders keystrokes is worse than one that drops them. var n = rescued.pop(buf); const waiting = @min(uart0.rxCount(), buf.len - n); for (buf[n..][0..waiting]) |*slot| slot.* = uart0.popByte(); n += waiting; return n; } /// Take whatever has arrived off the receiver right now, without waiting and without handing it to /// anyone. For callers that are about to spend a while not reading: `write` does this while the /// transmitter is full, and the loop does it between chunks of input, because applying a keystroke /// gets more expensive as the line grows and 128 bytes of FIFO is only 11 ms at 115200. pub fn rescueNow() void { input_rescue.rescue(uart0, &rescued); } /// Input abandoned because even the rescue buffer overflowed. Distinct from `dropped`, which is /// OUTPUT abandoned by a stalled transmitter. pub fn inputDropped() u32 { return rescued.dropped; } /// 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(); discarded += @intCast(rescued.len); rescued.clear(); 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()); }