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audio mode load: gracefully handle mode files of wrong AEC version
Unfortunately our change of enabling L1_NEW_AEC (which is necessary
in order to bring our Calypso ARM fw into match with the underlying
DSP reality) brings along a change in the audio mode file binary
format and file size - all those new tunable AEC parameters do need
to be stored somewhere, after all. But we already have existing
mode files in the old format, and setting AEC config to garbage when
loading old audio modes (which is what would happen without the
present change) is not an appealing proposition.
The solution implemented in the present change is as follows: the
audio mode loading code checks the file size, and if it differs
from the active version of T_AUDIO_MODE, the T_AUDIO_AEC_CFG structure
is cleared - set to the default (disabled AEC) for the compiled type
of AEC. We got lucky in that this varying T_AUDIO_AEC_CFG structure
sits at the end of T_AUDIO_MODE!
| author | Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org> |
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| date | Fri, 30 Jul 2021 02:55:48 +0000 |
| parents | a62e5bf88434 |
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FC Tourmaline stdmodem functional configuration is equivalent to Magnetite hybrid. The only intentional diff from Magnetite to Tourmaline in the modem configuration is the change of Nucleus: Magnetite uses the blob version of Nucleus which came with TCS211-20070608, whereas Tourmaline uses the source version of Nucleus by Comrade XVilka. It is essentially a change from an unknown version of Nucleus to a known one, thus it should generally be considered an improvement - but as always with such changes, extensive verification and testing needs to be done in order to ensure that nothing got broken. Aside from the one intentional change of Nucleus version, FC Tourmaline is an entirely new firmware source tree, thus it is always possible that something could have got broken unintentionally, particularly in rarely-tested areas of the firmware. Therefore, extensive testing will need to be done before we can declare Tourmaline stdmodem as officially replacing Magnetite hybrid for stable modem products.