Bench round 3 (testlogs/riomash-patched-62500-sw): lamp glitches
persisted because reply-resolution was type-blind — an analog reply
still crossing USB from the previous poll could falsely confirm the
NEXT command (usually a lamp write) before the board judged it. Now a
reply resolves only its MATCHING pending request (analog/version/
check); ACK/NAK stay type-blind, which is safe because the board's TX
ISR prioritizes ACK/NAK ahead of reply data, so a command's ACK cannot
trail into its successor's window. Budget-exhausted drops settle 10ms
before releasing the gate so late stragglers land on an empty pending.
New test: a stray AnalogReply must not resolve a pending lamp command.
283 green; selftest regression unchanged.
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Bench falsified the v1 retransmit (testlogs/riomash-patched-62500-retx):
resends tracked NAKs 1:1 (321/321) yet lamps still stuck/missed — under
mash bursts the NAK arrives after a newer command is already "latest",
so the wrong packet was resent; and total shreds never NAK at all.
Now commands are stop-and-wait: ONE in flight (_commandGate), resolved
by ACK, NAK, or AckTimeout (50ms); NAK/timeout retransmits THE SAME
packet up to CommandRetransmitLimit (2), then drops (idempotent - the
next state update supersedes). Attribution is exact by construction and
timeouts catch silent shreds. Control-byte replies bypass the gate so
board traffic is never delayed; a request's own reply (analog/version/
check) also resolves the wait, so request/reply exchanges never burn
the timeout even if the board sends no explicit ACK.
7 tests (same-packet resend, timeout retry+drop, ACK completion,
serialization, reply-resolves-request, stray-NAK no-op, disable);
282 green. Mash summary now reports NAK/timeout resends.
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NAK=69/~1060 lamp commands explains the observed stuck-bright/missed
lamps (fire-and-forget writes turn each corrupt 4-byte burst into a
visible state error) while 2-byte traffic is pristine (analog 88.1%,
counters flat, zero wedges, worst gap 0.14s). The HC11 RX ISR's worst
path sits right at ~320 E-cycles. Ladder: 9600 production, 31250v2
CLEAN (FastRIO), 62500 needs host NAK-retransmit, 125000 CPU-walled.
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Board->PC near-perfect at 125k (framing 5) while PC->board shredded by
packet length (2-byte polls 60% delivered, 4-byte lamp cmds ~2/3 NAKed
as checksum-corrupt): the 2MHz HC11 RX ISR can't drain back-to-back
bytes at 80us. MAX232 acquitted; zero wedges even at 40% inbound loss.
62500 image built as the sweet-spot candidate (RIOv4_2_patched_62500.bin).
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192s mash at 31250 with the $D9E7 wait fix: framing 5655 -> 54
(-99.4%), AbandonCount 65 -> +0, duplicate replies gone (215% -> 88.6%
of poll slots — identical to the healthy 9600 profile, the structural
$D758 drop-gate ratio), zero wedges, counters perfectly flat. The
byte-clocked ACK-wait theory is confirmed end to end: disassembly
predicted the mechanism, one operand byte fixed it, the wire went
quiet. Evidence log archived; results table in ANALYSIS.md.
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testlogs/ carries the raw records behind the CONFIRMED verdict:
baseline wedged at 0.62s and stayed dead 300s; patched ran clean
through 152s of heavier mash, worst gap 0.58s self-recovered.
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