comparison doc/Modem-operation @ 50:a62e5bf88434

first round of documentation
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Sun, 18 Oct 2020 18:08:15 +0000
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1 FC Tourmaline stdmodem functional configuration is equivalent to Magnetite
2 hybrid. The only intentional diff from Magnetite to Tourmaline in the modem
3 configuration is the change of Nucleus: Magnetite uses the blob version of
4 Nucleus which came with TCS211-20070608, whereas Tourmaline uses the source
5 version of Nucleus by Comrade XVilka. It is essentially a change from an
6 unknown version of Nucleus to a known one, thus it should generally be
7 considered an improvement - but as always with such changes, extensive
8 verification and testing needs to be done in order to ensure that nothing got
9 broken.
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11 Aside from the one intentional change of Nucleus version, FC Tourmaline is an
12 entirely new firmware source tree, thus it is always possible that something
13 could have got broken unintentionally, particularly in rarely-tested areas of
14 the firmware. Therefore, extensive testing will need to be done before we can
15 declare Tourmaline stdmodem as officially replacing Magnetite hybrid for stable
16 modem products.