Thanks brother, I have been noticing you have been rocking my github LOL. Yeah the HTC Incredible 2 & Sony Ericsson Xperia Play are the other like phones with the Qualcomm MSM8655 that both have nightly releases for CM7.1. I have been testing out changing the board from msm7x30 to qsd8k in BoardConfig.mk and also in triumph.mk . It does build and work but the Camera stops working and also some video formats do not play. However the flicker is fixed. After looking over a few more of our sister phones the huawei, and the others they are all using msm7k but I think it's based on the fact the releases are AOSP GB and not CM7.
I have also built with the msm7k and same thing happens. I didn't notice much difference in speeds or usage of RAM. I just need to figure out what's the difference in the qsd8k that allows our video to not flicker, my guess is it's an overlay issue. Going to spend some more time on it this week. I will check out the gerrit hacks you pulled in.