# Current Status

## Authority

FriiDump 0.5.3.16-pf1 is the release line prepared from the accepted
Candidate21 implementation. The annotated release tag is the immutable
authority after publication; verify the live tag object, peeled commit, and
tree rather than inferring authority from a checkout directory or ZIP name.

## Validated paths

- The maintained Visual Studio 2019 32-bit build and native-report fixtures pass.
- Linux/CMake builds pass with explicit normal-user `CAP_SYS_RAWIO` handling.
- A GCC-4244 B101 completed the Sonic Mega Collection (US) GameCube dump with an
  exact full-image hash match.
- The exact 0.5.3.16-pf1 Linux executable later completed a controlled
  GCC-4244 B101 GameCube smoke with all 20 seed blocks, partial output,
  cancellation, native reporting, profile reporting, and STOP UNIT.
- The exact 0.5.3.16-pf1 Linux executable completed the modified GDR-8050L
  `0xE7` GameCube path on physical GDR-8163B hardware cross-flashed with
  GDR-8050L `0012` firmware. The run completed all 20 seed blocks, partial
  output, cancellation, native reporting, profile reporting, and internal
  STOP UNIT.
- The Linux GDR-8050L path established both Xbox game-view transitions, read
  XDVDFS metadata, captured DMI media ID `TQ00501A`, produced a controlled
  partial GAME-XDVDFS output with hashes and native reporting, and completed
  STOP UNIT.
- Native `friidump-test-result.v1` reports cover complete, partial, failed,
  cancelled, no-media, seed-failure, and modified-firmware states.

## Linux exact-release hardware closure

The two required Linux GameCube hardware targets are complete.

The GCC-4244 B101 exact-release evidence archive has SHA-256
`7c9573d7dddf6381d8847626d0a45e96e57f2b64d79967a041d8acf4affebef5`.
The cross-flashed GDR-8163B/GDR-8050L `0012` evidence archive has SHA-256
`872b8144b8cc55601b268867ad8cc74cc7266a514cf015e24cd2fe3a450ee602`.

The validated cross-flashed unit required a readable Video DVD at power-on
before it identified as GDR-8050L `0012`. The drive remained powered and
connected while the disc was changed to Sonic Mega Collection (US). A
temporary host-probe quarantine prevented background Linux media discovery
from blocking the USB/SCSI path. The host state was restored after the run.

See
[`reports/FRIIDUMP_LINUX_EXACT_RELEASE_HARDWARE_VALIDATION_0.5.3.16-pf1.md`](reports/FRIIDUMP_LINUX_EXACT_RELEASE_HARDWARE_VALIDATION_0.5.3.16-pf1.md).

## Hardware-validation boundary

The Linux GDR-8050L evidence validates the command path, game-view state,
metadata, controlled partial output, cancellation, reporting, and cleanup. It
does not by itself claim a newly completed full Original Xbox image on Linux.
Candidate-specific validation scripts remain in `validation/` as historical,
exact evidence tools; release builds use the maintained build entry points and
the generic raw-I/O capability helper.

## Known inherited warnings

`libfriidump/rs.c` retains an inherited right-shift-count warning. Other
explicit `-Wall -Wextra` warnings are pre-existing or non-fatal test-path
warnings and were not silently normalized during release finalization.

## Campaign

Release publication uses an exact annotated tag, exact-tag Windows and Linux
builders, immutable artifact manifests, and independent private/public
read-back. Candidate retirement remains a separate final gate.

## Candidate12 correction status
Candidate12 closes the Linux GCC-4244 B101 full-dump gate and corrects runtime
DAT discovery, Linux lock-status reporting, and the Linux `--help` validation
false failure. The accepted live result is Sonic Mega Collection (US), 712880
sectors, with CRC32 `01b52739`, MD5
`85a525df1481d0ad67d8761f832dca12`, SHA-1
`06eb6d15b4d7f90ec0fed9ce9a77db41358d74ed`, and SHA-256
`30098da93f5de9ece8da44f8afdfb85cf9bcdc24d77131221e64e3038a529010`.


## Candidate16 Linux authorization status

Candidate13's live diagnostics proved that Candidate12/13 seed failures were
host-side authorization failures: vendor opcode `0xE7` returned `EPERM` before
usable drive sense, while Candidate11's working executable carried
`cap_sys_rawio=ep`.

Candidate16 makes this boundary explicit. Linux vendor-command paths preflight
effective `CAP_SYS_RAWIO`, refuse whole-process root execution, provide exact
least-privilege installation instructions, record preflight failures in native
reports, and issue STOP UNIT cleanup. The build emits a warning but does not
silently invoke `sudo` or modify file capabilities.


## Candidate16 build-hygiene status

Candidate16 preserves Candidate14 raw-I/O authorization and removes the user-side clock-skew and production long-path warning defects. The Linux validator normalizes only future source timestamps before building, and the raw-I/O preflight uses bounded path construction with a larger native-report note buffer.


## Candidate16 Linux Xbox tray-cycle status

Candidate15's first Linux Xbox smoke used a normal video DVD and proved target
selection plus raw-I/O authorization, but failed immediately at Stage 2 because
the Linux optical door remained locked while FriiDump held the device open.
Candidate16 releases the Linux `CDROM_LOCKDOOR` state before each GDR-8050L
software eject/load cycle, restores the lock after a successful load, and leaves
the door unlocked on failure for manual recovery. The later Candidate21
hardware run closed the Linux Xbox command-path gate with both game-view
transitions, DMI capture, controlled partial output, cancellation, native
reporting, and STOP UNIT. It did not claim a newly completed full Xbox image.