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BCM module diagnostics replace timestamp probes: bringup forces EEE off and runs ECD (re-run on every reset, re-baselining past its blip), 1 Hz SNR margin + corrected counters on panel and console; X520 bench divergences bypassed and tracked in open-questions

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1. **Loss and error attribution** — reception gaps, link errors, NIC/driver counters as first-class output alongside application loss. Baseline loss must be exactly zero before a run counts; any host-side loss masks real cable faults.
2. **Noise tolerance** — a deliberately-bad "noise" cable intertwined with the test cable, driven by link up/down cycling, stresses the cable under test with alien crosstalk.
3. **Per-pair SNR** from the module PHYs — the leading indicator of a marginal cable before it drops frames. IEEE 802.3an standard registers on the Marvells; the BCM leaves those unpopulated and reports through its vendor command handler instead (modules/fs/).
4. **Cable length** — sanity check and fault localization. The BCM ECD is the product path: per-pair lengths in meters, healthy pairs included, proven meter-accurate on the bench (modules/fs/).
3. **Per-pair SNR** from the module PHYs — the leading indicator of a marginal cable before it drops frames. IEEE 802.3an standard registers on the Marvells; the BCM leaves those unpopulated and reports through its vendor command handler instead (modules/fs/). Shown as margin over the operating point, classified good/marginal/bad, so nobody needs the magic numbers to read it (`phy.go`).
4. **Cable length** — sanity check and fault localization. The BCM ECD is the product path: per-pair lengths in meters, healthy pairs included, proven meter-accurate on the bench (modules/fs/); run at bringup and on every reset, with pair-swap and fault verdicts on the panel.
5. **Pre-FEC error visibility** — corrected-error counters that move before post-FEC loss appears. Vendor-specific; located on the Aquantia (modules/fibergaga/), unlocated elsewhere. Standard latched PCS counters (errored blocks, BER, block-lock loss) are the working proxy under noise stress.
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