fix: backport five upstream Adafruit fixes (boot loop, GCC 15, DFU reliability) - #26
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe PR updates BLE DFU notification retries, clears processor state during application reset, corrects UICR voltage initialization, and adds GCC compatibility changes for diagnostics, flags, and fixed-size character arrays. ChangesBootloader and build fixes
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The GCC-compatibility change can fail during preprocessing on compilers without __has_attribute support, blocking bootloader builds for those toolchains. Merge should wait until the conditional checks are made portable. Possibly related issues
Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant BLE_DFU
participant SoftDevice
participant BLE_Central
BLE_DFU->>SoftDevice: Send DFU notification
loop While SoftDevice returns NRF_ERROR_RESOURCES
BLE_DFU->>SoftDevice: Retry notification
end
SoftDevice-->>BLE_DFU: Return final status
SoftDevice-->>BLE_Central: Deliver notification
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Hardware validation — RAK4631 (WisMesh Pocket), all passed ✅Bootloader built from this branch (
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- correct usage of __has_attribute(nonstring) and rename to ATTR_NOSTRING
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The GCC preprocessor documentation explicitly warns against combining the defined has_attribute check and the has_attribute(operand) test into a single #if expression, such as #if defined has_attribute && has_attribute (nonnull) [1][2]. This practice is considered non-portable because the has_attribute operator is only valid for use within #if and #elif directives if the compiler actually supports it [1][2]. While some compilers may safely evaluate the entire expression, others that do not support the has_attribute operator may fail to parse the expression or behave unexpectedly when encountering the operator in a combined conditional [1][2]. The recommended, portable approach to testing for attribute support is to use nested directives [1][2]: #if defined has_attribute # if has_attribute (nonnull) # define ATTR_NONNULL attribute ((nonnull)) # endif #endif In this pattern, the first #if acts as a guard, ensuring that the compiler supports the operator before it is invoked in the subsequent, nested #if directive [1][2]. Additionally, the has_attribute operator can be used as a predefined macro by itself (without parentheses or an operand) to detect its availability, which is the mechanism used by the first #if check [1][2].
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- 1: https://snapshots.sourceware.org/gcc/docs/2026-07-20_17-22_1784568121/cpp/_005f_005fhas_005fattribute.html
- 2: https://snapshots.sourceware.org/gcc/docs/2026-07-21_12-22_1784636521/cpp/_005f_005fhas_005fattribute.html
Use nested __has_attribute checks.
When __has_attribute is unsupported, the combined condition causes a preprocessing error. Nest the checks so the fallback remains valid.
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In `@src/usb/uf2/ghostfat.c` around lines 44 - 48, Update the ATTR_NONSTRING
preprocessor guard to nest the __has_attribute availability check before
evaluating __has_attribute(nonstring), preserving the empty fallback when the
feature is unsupported.
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meshtastic-device-ops covers every USB flashing path (serial DFU, UF2, esptool/nrfutil/picotool) but had nothing on the wireless leg: the Nordic legacy BLE DFU the Android app uses for its in-app bootloader upgrade, and that Adafruit/OTAFIX-family nRF52 bootloaders speak natively. There's no MCP tool for this yet, so document the manual method (recrof/nrf_dfu_py + bleak) learned while hardware-validating meshtastic/Adafruit_nRF52_Bootloader_OTAFIX#26 on a real RAK4631: the buttonless-jump/legacy-DFU GATT UUIDs, the fact that a device's BLE name suffix is the FICR MAC and can't be computed from node_num, the macOS-specific friction (BT toggle, terminal Bluetooth permission, accessory-approval popups hiding USB ports), and why a RANDOM_PIN device looked unpairable from a scripted client (no bug — it needs a human or the app watching the passkey log/UI, which a headless bleak script isn't). Signed-off-by: James Rich <2199651+jamesarich@users.noreply.github.com>
Correction on the RANDOM_PIN note aboveWalked this back after checking What actually happened: the RAK4631 target used here (plain Separately (and this part checks out): firmware Filed the corrected version in meshtastic/meshtastic-mcp#61. |
Further correction: the WisMesh Pocket does have a screenJames caught this — my "no display" claim above was also wrong. Confirmed in firmware: there's a dedicated The accurate statement, now fixed in meshtastic-mcp#61: the real constraint wasn't the hardware at all. I never actually checked the physical screen in real time ( |
* docs(skills): document manual BLE OTA DFU testing gap meshtastic-device-ops covers every USB flashing path (serial DFU, UF2, esptool/nrfutil/picotool) but had nothing on the wireless leg: the Nordic legacy BLE DFU the Android app uses for its in-app bootloader upgrade, and that Adafruit/OTAFIX-family nRF52 bootloaders speak natively. There's no MCP tool for this yet, so document the manual method (recrof/nrf_dfu_py + bleak) learned while hardware-validating meshtastic/Adafruit_nRF52_Bootloader_OTAFIX#26 on a real RAK4631: the buttonless-jump/legacy-DFU GATT UUIDs, the fact that a device's BLE name suffix is the FICR MAC and can't be computed from node_num, the macOS-specific friction (BT toggle, terminal Bluetooth permission, accessory-approval popups hiding USB ports), and why a RANDOM_PIN device looked unpairable from a scripted client (no bug — it needs a human or the app watching the passkey log/UI, which a headless bleak script isn't). Signed-off-by: James Rich <2199651+jamesarich@users.noreply.github.com> * docs(skills): fix BLE_DFU_SECURE/legacy DFU conflation, add safety notes Four CodeRabbit findings, all verified against firmware source and fixed: - The prior text presented 0xFE59/8ec90003 and 0x1530/0x1531 as roughly interchangeable. Checked NRF52Bluetooth.cpp directly: BLE_DFU_SECURE (the 0xFE59 path) is only defined for wio-t1000-s; every other nRF52 board, RAK4631 included, uses plain BLEDfu (0x1530/0x1531) - confirmed against Adafruit's Bluefruit library source already present locally. My own working test script used 0x1531, not 0xFE59, so the doc's RAK4631 example was citing the wrong service for the board it named. - Made the nrf_dfu_py invocation self-contained (clone, install bleak, run from that checkout) instead of assuming prior setup. - Added a caution to resolve a BLE name scan to exactly one match before connecting - nrf_dfu_py connects to the first match, so an ambiguous short_name prefix on a mesh with more than one matching device could target the wrong node. - Added a save/restore step for bluetooth.mode/fixed_pin around scripted FIXED_PIN testing, so a device doesn't stay on a known, reusable pairing credential after testing ends. Signed-off-by: James Rich <2199651+jamesarich@users.noreply.github.com> * docs(skills): fix nrf_dfu_py scope and passkey-logging claims Three more CodeRabbit findings from the second review pass, all verified directly (fetched dfu_lib.py/dfu_cli.py from recrof/nrf_dfu_py, diffed NRF52Bluetooth.cpp across the v2.7.26.54e0d8d tag, current master, and develop): - nrf_dfu_py only defines the legacy 0x1530 DFU_SERVICE_UUID - no Secure DFU path at all - so it's a match for RAK4631 and most nRF52 boards but not one that defines BLE_DFU_SECURE (wio-t1000-s). - dfu_cli.py's single invocation already does the buttonless jump itself (its jump_to_bootloader() sends the identical 2-byte legacy opcode write documented in step 1) before rescanning and transferring, so a separate manual jump usually isn't needed - just worth knowing its post-jump bootloader rescan matches a literal "DFU"/MAC heuristic rather than the board's exact <BOARD>_DFU name, which is why retrying against that exact name after an already- completed jump is more reliable. - The passkey-logging claim was right for the exact firmware tag tested (v2.7.26.54e0d8d) and is right again on develop, but a security fix (redacting BLE pairing secrets from logs) removed the passkey from that LOG_INFO call for a stretch of the 2.7.x line in between - don't present the debug log as a reliable passkey source across arbitrary builds; the app's pairing UI always gets it via BluetoothStatus regardless of build. Signed-off-by: James Rich <2199651+jamesarich@users.noreply.github.com> * docs(skills): correct RAK4631/WisMesh Pocket display claim James: the WisMesh Pocket does have a screen. Confirmed in firmware - there's a dedicated env:rak_wismesh_pocket PlatformIO target, documented in platformio.ini as "rak4631 pin map + OLED" (built via a WISMESH_POCKET define on top of the plain rak4631 variant). hw_model: RAK4631 alone doesn't distinguish the OLED-equipped Pocket build from the plain module. Rewrote the point accordingly: the real constraint on this session wasn't the hardware, it's that neither the screen (capture_screen was never called) nor a live debug log was actually checked in real time during the failed pairing attempts - the passkey-visibility reasoning is from reading firmware source after the fact, not from confirming what this specific device displayed. Signed-off-by: James Rich <2199651+jamesarich@users.noreply.github.com> --------- Signed-off-by: James Rich <2199651+jamesarich@users.noreply.github.com>
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Closes the near-term half of #25. Stacked on #24 (base is that branch; GitHub will retarget to
masterwhen it merges).What's backported
Five commits cherry-picked from
adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Bootloadermainline (post-0.9.2 work our oltaco-lineage base never received), original authorship preserved:6250be4(Tomasz Duda)src/boards/boards.cinit code; applied cleand435d66(Willow Herring)6b24be5(hathach)-Warray-boundspragmas inbootloader_settings.c+ATTR_NOSTRINGcleanup; removes the global--param=min-pagesize=0workaroundbootloader_settings.cchange is a pure#pragma GCC diagnosticwrap — zero behavior change to the MBR-address flash readsd0f13ea(E. J. Tagle)bootloader_util.c; our copy of the file was byte-identical to upstream's parent2910556(E. J. Tagle)ble_dfu.c— our copy was only lightly diverged (27 lines); applied without conflict and compiles clean, no dependency on the rest of ejtagle's seriesDeferred (tracked in #25):
e1ea1c6(flash-operation-queue wait) — built arounddfu_dual_bank.c, which our tree predates, plus deepdfu_single_bank.cchanges where OTAFIX's lazy-erase rework lives.Conflicts resolved
Makefile×2, both trivial: kept our2>/dev/null(noNULL_DEVICEvar in our tree) while adding15.%to the GCC version filter; then removed that whole block per6b24be5's intent (pragmas replace the global param).Testing
wiscore_rak4631_board,heltec_t114,t1000_e,xiao_nrf52840_ble(representative: RAK, display board, Seeed 7.3.0-SoftDevice, XIAO).d0f13ea(app-jump path) and2910556(BLE DFU path). A RAK4631 flash + OTA DFU round-trip covers both.Test plan
d0f13ea,6250be4)2910556)Summary by CodeRabbit