Acceptance baseline: XY_MODE_DEFAULT 8 -> 32, split out XY_MODE_BASE (8) for
the tick/ramp scaling, matching the driver. The mode-aware comparisons
(fixed_sysfs of the resolved mode) judge an unset machine at x32.
Host CI: xy_mode_test.py default and invalid cases expect x32/213.333/112640.
Bench tools: raster_dry.py and xy_pattern_accel.py set_mode() cleared the key
for mode 8, which relied on clear == the x8 default; clearing now yields x32,
so they set the mode explicitly and restore to x32. live_fire_drills
STREAM_RATE_HZ is the 28160 Hz laser reference tick, the same at every mode.
The baseline derives x/y_mode, step_freq, ramp_rate and the configured
markers from the xy_microsteps setting; ramp_rate joins the GRBL
controller's set (the driver writes it; the cloud client runs at the
module's). motion.microstep-modes cycles 8, 16 and 32: the save restarts
the idle controller, the kernel reads the mode with its tick and ramp,
$100/$101 are the mode's and a typed $100 is overwritten, a 40 mm jog at
top speed returns to Idle with the kernel counters over the mode agreeing
with the commanded travel and the accelerometer seeing the head move; the
setting is put back as found.
Bench tools: xy_mode_test.py (the null-sink harness the grblHAL CI runs),
raster_dry.py (a top-speed raster per mode), xy_pattern_accel.py (the
operator's pattern from home with the machine silent and the head
accelerometer listening), arc_tolerance_sweep.py (a $12 ladder on the 9
in circle: the chord rate the protocol loop feeds, about 300 a second, is
the ceiling, not the core), and the xymode and xycircle live drills.
BRINGUP carries the present state and the facts; CAMPAIGN-LOG the dated
record, including the planner-blocks spin (a $398 of 255 or more loops
forever at start, a core bug) and its recovery.
ScottW514