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Add custom dual-OTA flash partition layout

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Document the 16 MiB flash layout and one-time migration procedure.
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See [`wiring.md`](wiring.md) for the hardware profile, GPIO assignments, loopback diagrams, safety notes, and the recommended test sequence. The initial profile covers the ESP32-S3-DevKitC-1 N16R8 and the Adafruit MAX3243 full-pinout RS-232 breakout.
## Flash partition layout
The N16R8 target has 16 MiB flash and 8 MiB octal PSRAM. PlatformIO uses the custom [`partitions.csv`](partitions.csv) layout:
| Partition | Offset | Size | Purpose |
|---|---:|---:|---|
| `nvs` | `0x009000` | 512 KiB | Serial configuration and future Wi-Fi/provisioning data |
| `otadata` | `0x089000` | 8 KiB | Active OTA-slot selection metadata |
| `phy_init` | `0x08B000` | 4 KiB | Optional PHY initialization data |
| `nvs_key` | `0x08C000` | 4 KiB | Reserved for future encrypted-NVS keys |
| `coredump` | `0x08D000` | 128 KiB | Reserved for flash core dumps |
| `ota_0` | `0x0B0000` | 4 MiB | Primary application/OTA slot |
| `ota_1` | `0x4B0000` | 4 MiB | Alternate application/OTA slot |
| `storage` | `0x8B0000` | 7488 KiB | Future LittleFS web assets, certificates, logs, and files |
Application offsets are aligned to the ESP32-S3's required 64 KiB boundary. The final storage partition ends at `0x1000000`, exactly the end of the 16 MiB flash chip.
The partition table reserves OTA and LittleFS space but does not by itself implement OTA downloads, rollback confirmation, core-dump handling, NVS encryption, or filesystem mounting. Those features will be enabled deliberately in later phases.
### One-time migration from the default partition table
The previous 1 MiB factory application began at `0x10000`, which is now inside the enlarged NVS address range. A normal upload does not erase all stale bytes there. Perform a full flash erase once when first switching to this layout:
```sh
pio run --target erase
pio run --target upload
pio device monitor -b 115200
```
This erases the currently saved serial configuration and all other flash contents. The firmware will boot with safe serial defaults and recreate NVS. Subsequent ordinary uploads do not require another full erase.
PlatformIO's application-size report should now use the 4 MiB `ota_0` slot instead of the previous 1 MiB factory partition.
## Build
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