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mfw_mme.c: hack to get initial battery state on boot
author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> |
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date | Thu, 13 May 2021 04:32:53 +0000 |
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1 FC Tourmaline stdmodem functional configuration is equivalent to Magnetite |
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2 hybrid. The only intentional diff from Magnetite to Tourmaline in the modem |
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3 configuration is the change of Nucleus: Magnetite uses the blob version of |
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4 Nucleus which came with TCS211-20070608, whereas Tourmaline uses the source |
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5 version of Nucleus by Comrade XVilka. It is essentially a change from an |
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6 unknown version of Nucleus to a known one, thus it should generally be |
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7 considered an improvement - but as always with such changes, extensive |
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8 verification and testing needs to be done in order to ensure that nothing got |
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9 broken. |
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11 Aside from the one intentional change of Nucleus version, FC Tourmaline is an |
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12 entirely new firmware source tree, thus it is always possible that something |
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13 could have got broken unintentionally, particularly in rarely-tested areas of |
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14 the firmware. Therefore, extensive testing will need to be done before we can |
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15 declare Tourmaline stdmodem as officially replacing Magnetite hybrid for stable |
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16 modem products. |