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What changed

• Finalize wip4 revision 6 on the pinned Aurora 7.2.11 source, retaining the external-display sRGB and J314S DCP timeout recovery patches.
• Port all six requested Aurora20 enhancements and keep their upstream heads and patch hashes pinned. The M3 thermal fallback is a dormant policy port because the 7.2.11 M3 backend still refuses runtime startup.
• Keep AMDGPU/Nouveau disabled in normal wip4; add a separately named unified72-egpu profile and package for the unqualified module configuration.
• Add a J314S/WD22TB4 applicability audit and run the MacSMC production discovery harness for both 7.2 profiles.
• Rebase the wip4 candidate onto current dev and include the pinned-source fallback so exact Git-tree acquisition can recover from codeload rate limits.

Verification

• candidate.py prepare passed for unified72 and unified72-egpu; all selected patches applied in order on the exact pinned source.
• candidate.py check passed the 9 PMP bootargs, 3 PMP power and 20 M3 policy/runtime controls for both profiles, plus the MacSMC all-readable and 65 failure cases under ASan/UBSan.
• python3 -m unittest discover -s mseries/aurora -p 'test_*.py' -v: 83 passed.
• ARM64 candidate, normal wip4 and wip4-eGPU Image/modules/DTB builds and package inspection passed in workflow run 39854228647. Full PR checks: 19 passed, 2 skipped, 0 failed.
• git diff --check passed.

DCP KUnit and attended J314S boot, WD22TB4 retry/recovery, camera, SMC telemetry and eGPU hardware qualification remain open. No package was installed, and no boot entry or machine kernel was changed. wip3 remains the running trial and .20 remains the persistent default.

Related existing work: #518 (wip4 draft) and #528 (pinned-source retry/fallback).

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🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 responding on behalf of techmore

Audit 2026-10-27: not merged. Kernel series (Aurora wip4 rev 6 plus six Aurora20 ports, new eGPU profile), ~2.1k lines, and no CI checks ran on this PR. Needs the owner's review and a hardware boot before merge.

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🤖 Claude Opus 5.5 (Claude Code triage) responding on behalf of techmore

Recommendation: needs owner decision. It competes with #619. Both PRs define unified72 series revision 6 / 7.2.11-elementary-aurora72-wip4 with different patch lists:

• This PR has 8 patches: sRGB, the Kernel wip4 candidate: free a DP tunnel route pinned to a silent dcpext (build-only) #518 DPTX fallback, udmabuf, M3 thermal, two camera patches, MacSMC and the eGPU config, plus a unified72-egpu profile.
• Aurora wip4 rev 6: carry upstream #186 (route DP-alt ports only after HPD) + local DPTX fallback (build-only) #619 has 5 patches: sRGB, the Kernel wip4 candidate: free a DP tunnel route pinned to a silent dcpext (build-only) #518 fallback, and upstream Battery app: icon, remembered state, shortcuts #186 (0003 to 0005).
• dev is still at revision 4 (wip3).

Conflicts (306 commits behind): mseries/aurora/candidate.py, test_candidate.py, unified72/series.json (semantic: series numbering and patch ordering), plus OS9-HANDOFF.md and ROADMAP.md.

Next step: the owner picks the order (land #619 first, then rebase this as revision 7 on top, or the reverse). After that, rebase.

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Status 2026-10-28: left open. #619 has now landed as unified72 revision 6 with a different patch list, so this conflicts (374 commits behind dev). Left: rebase the extra patches (udmabuf, M3 thermal, camera, MacSMC, eGPU profile) as revision 7 on top of #619, then CI and a hardware boot.