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| author | Jonathan Zhang <jonzhang@fb.com> | 2021-04-28 09:23:22 -0700 |
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| committer | Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com> | 2021-05-10 20:31:19 +0000 |
| commit | 206dfbf17349485e1f6d9e8351277edb673a5d24 (patch) | |
| tree | 2cee78dfd4dd7e330fcfe4a741846c9e77e16f24 | |
| parent | 8618cf1edc68121e420d9a82483cc351040fd487 (diff) | |
doc/relnotes/4.14: add Intel Xeon-SP support status change
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Zhang <jonzhang@fb.com>
Change-Id: Ibead1c75bb4e41fedc2799366b5b006d76fc8f4e
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/52735
Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Subrata Banik <subrata.banik@intel.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.14-relnotes.md | 24 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.14-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.14-relnotes.md index b6c927ee12..3593bdcc78 100644 --- a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.14-relnotes.md +++ b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.14-relnotes.md @@ -76,4 +76,28 @@ now passed from within SMM_MODULE_LOADER. Allocation and initialisations for common ACPI GNVS table entries were largely moved to one centralized implementation. +### Intel Xeon Scalable Processor support is now considered mature + +Intel Xeon Scalable Processor (Xeon-SP) family [1] is designed +primarily to serve the needs of the server market. + +coreboot support for Xeon-SP is in src/soc/intel/xeon_sp directory. +This release has support for SkyLake-SP (SKX-SP) which is the 2nd +generation, and for CooperLake-SP (CPX-SP) which is the 3rd generation +or the latest generation [2] on market. + +With this release, the codebase for multiple generations of Xeon-SP +were unified and optimized: +* SKX-SP SoC code is used in OCP TiogaPass mainboard [3]. Support for +this board is in Proof Of Concept Status. +* CPX-SP SoC code is used in OCP DeltaLake mainboard. Support for +this board is in DVT (Design Validation Test) exit equivalent status. +Features supported, (performance/stability) test scopes, known issues, +features gaps are described in [4]. + ### Add significant changes here + +[1] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/details/processors/xeon/scalable.html +[2] https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/docs/processors/xeon/3rd-gen-xeon-scalable-processors-brief.html +[3] ../mainboard/ocp/tiogapass.md +[4] ../mainboard/ocp/deltalake.md |