-## Major accomplishments
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-- Added analyzer-derived HLDS profile support.
-- Added media preflight before vendor seed retrieval.
-- Added STOP UNIT after successful dumps.
-- Added profile reporting.
-- Added live INQUIRY alias support.
-- Validated multiple GDR-8163B firmware revisions on real hardware.
-- Validated GCC-4244 B101 and B103 on real hardware.
-- Validated GCC-4243N A102 on real hardware.
-- Captured canonical firmware dumps for GCC-4243N A102 and GCC-4244 B101.
-
-## Important engineering observations
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-- Trust live firmware/INQUIRY over stickers.
-- Preserve firmware provenance.
-- Prefer exact Stage5B-derived parser profiles over legacy Type3 fallbacks.
-- Hardware validates analyzer discoveries.
-
-## Current hardware validation status
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-### Validated
-
-**GDR-8163B**
-- 0B30
-- 0D20
-- 0E15
-- 0L20
-- 0L23
-- 0L30
-- 0M26
-
-**GCC-4244**
-- B101
-- B103
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-**GCC-4243N**
-- A102
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-## Firmware dumps completed
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-- GCC-4243N A102 (canonical)
-- GCC-4244 B101 (canonical)
-
-These should be analyzed by Stage5B to determine whether new promoted parser profiles or aliases are appropriate.
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-## Owned hardware inventory (validation targets)
-
-- GDR-8163B x15
-- GDR-8081N x3
-- GCC-4241N x5
-- GCC-4243N x5
-- GCC-4244N x9
-- GCC-4160N x3
-- GWA-4164B x1
-- GSA-H73N x1
-- GH22NS30 x1
-
-Do **not** ask the user to test drives outside this inventory.
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-## Immediate next work
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-1. Analyze GCC-4243N A102 firmware.
-2. Analyze GCC-4244 B101 firmware.
-3. Update FriiDump with any new aliases/promoted profiles.
-4. Continue owned-hardware validation in this order:
- - GCC-4241N
- - GCC-4160N
- - GWA-4164B
- - GSA-H73N
- - GH22NS30
-
-GDR-8081N remains a separate research effort and should not be modified until its firmware evidence supports doing so.
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-## Notes for the next agent
-
-- Avoid re-implementing already completed features (media preflight, STOP UNIT, profile reporting).
-- Use analyzer results as the primary source of truth.
-- Prefer evidence over assumptions.
-- When suggesting validation work, consult the user's current hardware inventory first.
-- The long-term architectural document is PFES; this file is only a transition handoff.
+Windows MSVC validation is required before the final physical Linux Xbox smoke.
+The final smoke must report media ID `TQ00501A`, successful DMI capture, both
+game-view transitions, controlled cancellation, hashes, native report, and
+STOP UNIT.