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Condat backlight driver: actually allow switching levels We earlier made a change to this driver allowing different backlight levels to be set. However, the old backlight idle logic prevented switching from one backlight level to another without going through a fully-off state. Now that we have the beginnings of new backlight timer logic in BMI+MFW, the old idle logic in the Condat driver layer can be axed, and we fix that driver layer to allow free switching between different backlight levels.
author Mychaela Falconia <falcon@freecalypso.org>
date Mon, 29 Mar 2021 01:52:48 +0000
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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.