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  • tools/build_all.py (or CI's board matrix) passes

Description of Change

The DFU screen gave no feedback once a transfer started, so a slow BLE update looked the same as a stuck one, and a wrong file or a bootloader update looked like nothing at all.

  • The banner line becomes a progress bar during UF2, serial and BLE transfers, redrawn in 5% steps. On a mono panel only the two pages the bar covers are resent.
  • The title reads BOOTLOADER during a bootloader update, ERASE during a factory erase, WRONG FILE for a UF2 block this board cannot take (another family, board or address), and NO FIRMWARE when DFU starts without a valid application.
  • The drag and BLE screens share one draw path, and centered text steps down a size when it would not fit (BOOTLOADER on the 160px TFTs).

Cost is about 300 bytes of bootloader flash on display boards; boards without a display are unchanged. The tightest board, heltec_t114, keeps 512 bytes free.

Tested on a Wio Tracker L1: progress over UF2 and over BLE (the BLE run with #69 applied), BOOTLOADER, and WRONG FILE (a one-block RP2040-family UF2). A 1.9 MB UF2 copy takes 3.68 s against 3.50 s without progress. NO FIRMWARE and ERASE were not exercised on hardware, and nothing was tested on the TFT boards.

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  • New Features
    • Upload progress is shown on the DFU screen during UF2, serial, and BLE transfers.
    • Status messages identify bootloader updates, factory erases, unsupported UF2 files, and DFU starts without valid firmware.
  • Improvements
    • Display text adjusts to fit the screen.
    • Progress updates appear as transfers advance, with the progress bar refreshing as progress changes.

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The DFU screen now displays status titles and transfer progress for UF2, serial, and BLE updates. It also shows titles for factory erase, unsupported UF2 files, and startup without a valid application.

Changes: DFU Screen Status

Layer / File(s) Summary
Display API and progress rendering
src/boards/boards.h, src/screen.c
Display builds add title and progress functions, with no-op definitions for builds without a display. The renderer supports title updates, progress bars, and partial redraws.
DFU and UF2 status updates
lib/sdk11/components/libraries/bootloader_dfu/dfu_single_bank.c, src/main.c, src/usb/uf2/ghostfat.c, changelog.md
DFU and UF2 transfers report progress. Update, erase, unsupported-file, and missing-application paths set the corresponding display titles. UF2 rejection paths use a shared handler.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ghostfat.c
  participant dfu_data_pkt_handle
  participant screen_set_progress
  participant draw
  ghostfat.c->>screen_set_progress: Report newly counted UF2 blocks
  dfu_data_pkt_handle->>screen_set_progress: Report received bytes and image size
  screen_set_progress->>draw: Redraw after an accepted progress update
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Possibly related issues

  • meshtastic/firmware#12196 — This PR changes BLE OTA screen rendering, but the reported reboot behavior is not shown to be fixed.

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 58717

Malformed or inconsistent transfer metadata can produce false completion or misleading status displays, so the display and transfer validation issues should be fixed before merge.

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Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: displaying upload progress and the type of firmware being flashed.
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A rabbit watches bytes advance,
The screen draws bars in tidy rows.
“BOOTLOADER” marks the update path,
“ERASE” appears when that request flows.
“WRONG FILE” tells where UF2 stops,
And “NO FIRMWARE” glows.

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  • 🪄 Fix comments: Fix CodeRabbit comments on this PR
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Review comments at @src/usb/uf2/ghostfat.c:
- Line 688: In the application-block branch of tud_msc_write10_cb, covering
CFG_UF2_BOARD_APP_ID and CFG_UF2_FAMILY_APP_ID, reset the screen title with NULL
when a valid application block is accepted so it restores the board name after a
prior WRONG FILE title.

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Comment thread src/usb/uf2/ghostfat.c Resolved
The banner line becomes a progress bar during UF2, serial and BLE
transfers, redrawn in 5% steps; a mono panel resends only the pages the
bar covers. The title shows BOOTLOADER for a bootloader update, ERASE for
a factory erase, WRONG FILE for a UF2 block for another family, board or
address, and NO FIRMWARE when DFU starts without a valid application. The
drag and BLE screens share one draw path, and centered text steps down a
size when it would not fit.

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🟠 Major · Validate blockNo against numBlocks before accounting. · ghostfat.c:657-668

src/usb/uf2/ghostfat.c:657-668
🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Validate blockNo against numBlocks before accounting.

is_uf2_block does not reject out-of-range block numbers. A block with blockNo == 1 and numBlocks == 1 can therefore increment numWritten to 1, display 100% progress, and satisfy the MSC completion check without receiving block 0.

Suggested fix
-    if ( bl->blockNo < MAX_BLOCKS )
+    if ( bl->blockNo < MAX_BLOCKS && bl->blockNo < bl->numBlocks )
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Review comment at @src/usb/uf2/ghostfat.c around lines 657 - 668:
Update the block-accounting guard before `writtenMask` and `numWritten` are
updated to require `bl->blockNo` to be less than both `MAX_BLOCKS` and
`bl->numBlocks`. Keep the existing duplicate-write handling and progress update
unchanged.
🟡 Minor · Clear progress when UF2 metadata becomes invalid. · ghostfat.c:646-668

src/usb/uf2/ghostfat.c:646-668
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear progress when UF2 metadata becomes invalid.

A reachable sequence can first display progress with a valid numBlocks, then receive a new block with a different numBlocks. The mismatch sets state->numBlocks to 0xffffffff, but screen_set_progress returns for that sentinel. The display keeps the old percentage. Reset _pct and redraw at the mismatch boundary, including when the mismatched block is a duplicate.

Suggested fix
diff --git a/src/usb/uf2/ghostfat.c b/src/usb/uf2/ghostfat.c
@@
       if ( bl->numBlocks >= MAX_BLOCKS || state->numBlocks )
+      {
         state->numBlocks = 0xffffffff;
+        screen_set_progress(0, state->numBlocks);
+      }
       else
         state->numBlocks = bl->numBlocks;
diff --git a/src/screen.c b/src/screen.c
@@
 void screen_set_progress(uint32_t done, uint32_t total) {
-  if (!_shown || total == 0 || total == 0xffffffff || done > total) return;
+  if (total == 0xffffffff) {
+    if (_pct >= 0) {
+      _pct = -1;
+      if (_shown) draw(BANNER_TEXT_Y, BANNER_TEXT_Y + 7);
+    }
+    return;
+  }
+  if (!_shown || total == 0 || done > total) return;
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Review comment at @src/usb/uf2/ghostfat.c around lines 646 - 668:
When `ghostfat` detects a `numBlocks` mismatch and sets `state->numBlocks` to
the invalid sentinel, clear and redraw the progress display immediately,
including for duplicate blocks. Update the `screen_set_progress` handling for
that sentinel so it resets the cached percentage and redraws when the screen is
shown; preserve existing behavior for other inputs.
🟡 Minor · Clear progress state when setting a new title. · screen.c:421-444

src/screen.c:421-444
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Clear progress state when setting a new title.

After _pct becomes nonnegative, screen_set_title() redraws without resetting it. draw() therefore continues to render the progress bar instead of the new BOOTLOADER, ERASE, or WRONG FILE title. Reset _pct when changing titles so the status display replaces the previous progress display.

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Review comment at @src/screen.c around lines 421 - 444:
Update screen_set_title to reset _pct when the title changes, before redrawing,
so the new status title replaces any previous progress display.
🟡 Minor · Compute the image-size total without wrapping before the size checks. · dfu_single_bank.c:305-315

lib/sdk11/components/libraries/bootloader_dfu/dfu_single_bank.c:305-315
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Compute the image-size total without wrapping before the size checks.

sd_image_size and app_image_size are checked only for word alignment. Their unchecked uint32_t sum can wrap. For example, sd_image_size = 0xFFFFFFF0, app_image_size = 0x20, and bl_image_size = 0 give m_image_size == 0x10. The DFU_IMAGE_MAX_SIZE_FULL check then accepts that value. The wrapped total is passed to the progress display, which can show a percentage against it, such as 100% after a 16-byte first packet. The next data packet exceeds the wrapped total and is rejected.

Suggested fix
-    m_image_size = m_start_packet.sd_image_size + m_start_packet.bl_image_size +
-                   m_start_packet.app_image_size;
+    uint64_t const image_size_total = (uint64_t) m_start_packet.sd_image_size +
+                                      m_start_packet.bl_image_size +
+                                      m_start_packet.app_image_size;
     
     if (m_start_packet.bl_image_size > DFU_BL_IMAGE_MAX_SIZE)
     {
         return NRF_ERROR_DATA_SIZE;
     }
 
-    if (m_image_size > (DFU_IMAGE_MAX_SIZE_FULL))
+    if (image_size_total > DFU_IMAGE_MAX_SIZE_FULL)
     {
         return NRF_ERROR_DATA_SIZE;
     }
+    m_image_size = (uint32_t) image_size_total;
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Review comment at
@lib/sdk11/components/libraries/bootloader_dfu/dfu_single_bank.c around lines
305 - 315:
Update the image-size calculation in the start-packet handling flow to avoid
uint32_t overflow before validation. Compute the sum of the SoftDevice,
bootloader, and application sizes in a wider integer type, validate that total
against DFU_IMAGE_MAX_SIZE_FULL, then assign it to m_image_size only after it
passes the check.

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Review comments at
@lib/sdk11/components/libraries/bootloader_dfu/dfu_single_bank.c:
- Around line 305-315: Update the image-size calculation in the start-packet
handling flow to avoid uint32_t overflow before validation. Compute the sum of
the SoftDevice, bootloader, and application sizes in a wider integer type,
validate that total against DFU_IMAGE_MAX_SIZE_FULL, then assign it to
m_image_size only after it passes the check.

Review comments at @src/screen.c:
- Around line 421-444: Update screen_set_title to reset _pct when the title
changes, before redrawing, so the new status title replaces any previous
progress display.

Review comments at @src/usb/uf2/ghostfat.c:
- Around line 657-668: Update the block-accounting guard before `writtenMask`
and `numWritten` are updated to require `bl->blockNo` to be less than both
`MAX_BLOCKS` and `bl->numBlocks`. Keep the existing duplicate-write handling and
progress update unchanged.
- Around line 646-668: When `ghostfat` detects a `numBlocks` mismatch and sets
`state->numBlocks` to the invalid sentinel, clear and redraw the progress
display immediately, including for duplicate blocks. Update the
`screen_set_progress` handling for that sentinel so it resets the cached
percentage and redraws when the screen is shown; preserve existing behavior for
other inputs.

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