It looks like even with the latest SDK 1.6.0, the full modem firmware pre-validation is turned off.
It looks like this is a modem firmware feature, so it would seem that the check should be a run-time check and should depend on the current firmware version, rather than being statically defined.
Is there a version of modem firmware that does support pre-validation? Could the SDK be updated to do the pre-validation if it's supported and skip if not? I would like to ship firmware soon, and I would like pre-validation to work once it's available.