fix: bump lib/nrfx and lib/tinyusb together, fix the fallout - #19
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Renovate's PR #11 (nrfx digest) and #12 (tinyusb digest) each failed CI on every board. Investigated both: - nrfx alone (bumped to Renovate's target, nrfx 4.5.0/1b7bedb) breaks the build immediately: nrfx 4.0 restructured its whole layout (mdk/ -> bsp/stable/mdk/, etc.), so this repo's Makefile IPATHs can't find nrf.h at all. That's a real rework, not a digest bump - pinned to v3.14.0 instead, the last tag before the 4.0 restructure. - tinyusb alone (Renovate's target, 5c0e31c) fails to compile against the old 2019 nrfx pin: its nrf5x USB port calls nrfx's chip-errata functions (nrf52_errata_199()) that don't exist yet at that nrfx version. The two submodules move together. With nrfx at v3.14.0 and tinyusb at 5c0e31c, three more issues surfaced, all fixed here: - tinyusb merged device/usbd_control.c into usbd.c; the Makefile's hardcoded tinyusb C_SRC list still named the now-gone file. - nrfx renamed nrf_wdt_started()/nrf_wdt_request_status() in the WDT HAL (see lib/nrfx/CHANGELOG.md) - the one in-repo call site needed updating. - nrfx's gcc_startup_<mcu>.S (since nrfx 3.x) copies .data via __data_start/__data_end (no trailing underscore) instead of this repo's __data_start__/__data_end__, plus three new RAM-loaded regions (.sdata/.tdata/.fast) nothing here uses. Added alias symbols and zero-length filler for the unused regions to linker/nrf_common.ld - deliberately not swapping in nrfx's own updated linker script, which also redefines .bss/.noinit placement and would fight this repo's board .ld files' fixed-address NOINIT region (BLE bond exchange across a DFU reset). Verified: all 14 boards build and link clean via tools/build_all.py. Not done here: real hardware testing. This is still the multi-year boot-critical submodule bump AGENTS.md already flagged as needing it before merge - a clean build is necessary, not sufficient. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Included review availability: Your plan provides up to 1 included review per hour; 0 remain after this review. 📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR updates nrfx and TinyUSB, removes an obsolete TinyUSB source file, changes the watchdog API call, and adds linker symbols for newer nrfx startup code. Documentation records version coupling, hardware testing, linker constraints, and UF2 restore behavior. Changesnrfx and TinyUSB compatibility
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- Around line 87-89: Complete and document representative real-hardware
validation for each board before merging version bumps, covering boot, USB/DFU,
reset, and BLE bond retention; do not rely solely on CI build and link results.
Apply the same fix in `@lib/nrfx` at line 1: Covered by the consolidated
requirement to validate boot, startup, reset, and watchdog behavior on real
hardware.
Apply the same fix in `@lib/tinyusb` at line 1: Covered by the consolidated
requirement to validate runtime startup, USB/DFU, and board-specific behavior.
Apply the same fix in `@lib/tinyusb` at line 1: Covered by the consolidated
requirement to validate USB MSC/CDC and OTA DFU behavior on hardware.
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Complete the required hardware validation before merge.
CI only confirms that the affected boards build and link; it does not validate boot/startup, watchdog and reset behavior, USB MSC/CDC, OTA DFU, or BLE bond retention. Test representative affected boards on real hardware and record the results before merging this bootloader and dependency update.
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In `@AGENTS.md` around lines 87 - 89, Complete and document representative
real-hardware validation for each board before merging version bumps, covering
boot, USB/DFU, reset, and BLE bond retention; do not rely solely on CI build and
link results.
Apply the same fix in `@lib/nrfx` at line 1: Covered by the consolidated
requirement to validate boot, startup, reset, and watchdog behavior on real
hardware.
Apply the same fix in `@lib/tinyusb` at line 1: Covered by the consolidated
requirement to validate runtime startup, USB/DFU, and board-specific behavior.
Apply the same fix in `@lib/tinyusb` at line 1: Covered by the consolidated
requirement to validate USB MSC/CDC and OTA DFU behavior on hardware.
Hardware test: RAK4631 (RAK WisMesh Pocket)Flashed this branch's Confirmed working:
One dead end worth recording, not a bug in this PR: I first tried restoring the app via the bootloader's own Only one board tested physically; the other 13 are still CI-build-verified only. |
…ting Real RAK4631 hardware testing for this branch (see PR #19) hit this: restoring an app via ghostfat's live CURRENT.UF2 dump left the device hung on boot even though the bytes matched what was there before. A normal release UF2 or OTA-DFU flash both worked fine immediately after. Recording it so it doesn't get mistaken for a regression from this PR's actual change (nrfx/tinyusb) next time someone hits it.
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Follow-up on the "dead end" noted in this PR's hardware-test comment: that |
#20 root-caused and fixed what this note previously flagged as an open mystery hit during this PR's hardware testing.
) * fix: size CURRENT.UF2 to the real installed app, not the max region CURRENT.UF2 (the on-the-fly dump of whatever's currently flashed, generated by read_block()) has reported and generated content sized to TRUE_USER_FLASH_SIZE - the max possible app+SoftDevice region - rather than how big the actually-installed app is. On a RAK4631 running Meshtastic 2.7.26, that meant CURRENT.UF2 was ~390KB larger than the official firmware image (3728 vs 2966 UF2 blocks), padding out with whatever's physically sitting in flash past the real app+SD boundary. Copying CURRENT.UF2 back onto the drive to restore the app it came from - a workaround documented as working by users hitting stuck-in- DFU-mode bugs (adafruit#201) - reproducibly hung the device on real RAK4631 hardware while investigating the nrfx/tinyusb bump in #19, on both this repo's current bootloader and the bumped one (a control test on the unmodified bootloader hung the same way, ruling out the bump as the cause). adafruit#38 (2018) fixed a related CURRENT.UF2 problem by sizing it off bootloader_settings.bank_0_size - the real recorded size of the currently-installed app - instead of a fixed constant. That fix has no trace left in the current file; this restores the same idea (current_flash_size(), with the same zero/erased-flash fallback to the max region) grafted onto the current SoftDevice-decoupled code from adafruit#128, which computes the max bound differently (TRUE_USER_FLASH_SIZE) than the 2018 code did. Verified: all 14 boards still build via tools/build_all.py. Hardware retest of the exact CURRENT.UF2 dump-and-restore sequence that hung before is next. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> * fix: record real app size on UF2 app-flash completion ghostfat.c's current_flash_size() (this branch's other commit) reads bootloader_settings.bank_0_size to size CURRENT.UF2 to the real installed app. But tud_msc_write10_complete_cb()'s app-completion branch never set update_status.app_size before calling bootloader_dfu_update_process() - it stayed 0 from the initial memset, so bank_0_size was always recorded as 0 for any app flashed via plain UF2 drag-and-drop (as opposed to the DFU-serial protocol, which transmits size upfront and was unaffected). Verified on hardware: after this fix, CURRENT.UF2 exactly matches the real firmware size (1518592 bytes, matching the official release UF2 byte for byte) instead of the previous 1908736 bytes of padding. The CURRENT.UF2 dump-and-restore sequence that reproducibly hung the device before now completes in ~2 seconds with no hang. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com> --------- Co-authored-by: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Summary
Renovate PRs #11 (
lib/nrfx) and #12 (lib/tinyusb) each failed CI on every board when filed independently. This investigates and fixes both:lib/nrfxalone, bumped to Renovate's target (nrfx 4.5.0), breaks immediately: nrfx 4.0 restructured its whole repo layout (mdk/→bsp/stable/mdk/), so this repo'sMakefileIPATHs can't findnrf.hat all. That's a real rework, not a digest bump. Pinned to v3.14.0 instead — the last tag before the 4.0 restructure.lib/tinyusbalone, bumped to Renovate's target (5c0e31c), fails to compile against the old 2019nrfxpin: itsnrf5xUSB port callsnrfx's chip-errata functions (nrf52_errata_199()) that don't exist at thatnrfxversion. The two submodules move together, not independently.With
nrfxat v3.14.0 andtinyusbat5c0e31c, three more issues surfaced, all fixed here:tinyusbmergeddevice/usbd_control.cintousbd.c; the Makefile's hardcoded tinyusb source list still named the now-gone file.nrfxrenamednrf_wdt_started()/nrf_wdt_request_status()in the WDT HAL (documented inlib/nrfx/CHANGELOG.md) — the one in-repo call site (lib/sdk11/.../bootloader.c) needed updating.nrfx'sgcc_startup_<mcu>.S(since nrfx 3.x) copies.datavia__data_start/__data_end(no trailing underscore) instead of this repo's__data_start__/__data_end__, plus three new RAM-loaded regions (.sdata/.tdata/.fast) nothing here uses. Added alias symbols and zero-length filler for the unused regions tolinker/nrf_common.ld— deliberately not swapping in nrfx's own updated linker script, which also redefines.bss/.noinitplacement and would fight this repo's board.ldfiles' fixed-addressNOINITregion (BLE bond exchange across a DFU reset).AGENTS.mdupdated with the reasoning above so a future Renovate PR proposing nrfx ≥4.0 doesn't get merged without doing that larger rework.Test plan
tools/build_all.py— all 14 boards build and link cleanpromicro_nrf52840/xiao_nrf52840_bleindividually too —build_all.py's parallel runner has a pre-existing_build/-mkdir race unrelated to this change (CI's matrix builds each board in its own isolated job, so it never hits this)CURRENT.UF2restore bug this bump surfaced but didn't cause — confirmed via a control test against the unmodified bootloader.Closes the compatibility gap behind #11 and #12 — once this is validated and merged, those two can close (or Renovate will auto-close them once the submodule pointers move past what they propose).