There is no Debug Build any more (ADR 0010, issue #68, Q188 to Q195). The
console and the test commands are compiled into every firmware. It listens
only while Settings > Debug Console is on, which isn't the default; off,
neither its task nor its 4 KB ring exists. The token is made by the device
and shown on that page; a client proves it knows it by answering a challenge
with an HMAC, so it never crosses the network, and five wrong answers close
the console for a minute. DBG in the Status Bar while it listens.
Over USB serial only: debug on, debug token <value>, debug token new.
scripts/flash.sh --debug uses them to set a device up with the developer's
token. scripts/rdbg.py takes the token from -t, $RORO_DEBUG_TOKEN or the
file, answers the challenge, and fetches a release's ELF to decode a crash.
Gone: the cardputer-adv-debug environment, RORO_DEBUG, the +debug version,
scripts/debug_flags.py, update install ... force, and the rule that a Debug
Build doesn't install releases. Old clients and old firmwares don't talk to
each other.
Against the builds it replaces: 30 KB more flash and 88 bytes more static
RAM than the release, 4 KB less RAM than the Debug Build. 468 host tests.
Checked on the device: off by default, login, the pause after wrong tokens,
Safe Mode with the console, the setting surviving an update, debug off.
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Peak stack use was measured through each task's worst case (an
ECDSA-checked install over Wi-Fi and from SD, get/put, a core dump
fetch, an IRC TLS handshake); stacks are now peak plus about 2 KB: loop
8 -> 6 KB, update 8 -> 5, storage 10 -> 6, irc 8 -> 6. The Debug Build's
console ring goes 6 -> 4 KB, serial TX 2 -> 1 KB, the GNSS UART buffer
1 KB -> 512 B.
On the device, with IRC on TLS: 46 KB free (was 31), an 18 KB low (was
9.4). The re-run of every worst case left at least 1.6 KB of stack free
in each task.
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New commands everywhere: ls, rm and install <path> (Update from SD
without the Firmware page), all as Storage Service jobs. In Debug
Builds the console task answers get and put (one storage job per
transfer, file kept open, TCP flow control: about 300 KB/s, against
55 KB/s over serial) and screenshot (the RGB332 frame the UI composes
into). rdbg.py turns those into files and PNGs.
A failed put closes the connection: the rest of the file had been
parsed as commands. Card writes are retried 3 times after closing,
truncating to the last good byte and reopening, since FATFS keeps a
file in error after one failed write (seen once at 1.3 MB on this card).
onStorage() decides with one compare-and-swap whether the job or the
timeout wins, so an abandoned job can't touch a returned stack frame.
Verified on the device: screenshot; a get round trip byte-identical;
4 puts in a row; a tampered .ota refused by install; a good one put,
installed from SD, confirmed on Probation. The retry path itself has
not fired since it was added.
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Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01EhqxQ49eCju4CzKYNjZzwT
cardputer-adv-debug (-DRORO_DEBUG, version +debug) adds a Debug Console:
after a token line, a client gets the last 6 KB of console output, live
lines (ESP-IDF logs included) and the serial commands. The socket task
only queues lines; the main loop runs them. Release builds compile none
of it. The token lives in ~/.config/roro9stack/debug-token, created by
_docker.sh and passed into the container.
All output now goes through `console`, which never waits for USB: a host
that was attached but not reading stalled the main loop up to 2 s per
line. New commands everywhere: info (slots with their versions from NVS,
since the framework stamps its own into each image), tasks, reboot,
boot other, log level, help. scripts/rdbg.py is the client; flash.sh
--debug builds it; CI builds both variants. ADR 0004.
Verified on the device: USB-flashed, then updated over Wi-Fi to a Debug
Build that confirmed on Probation; both slots hold Debug Builds.
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