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diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.10-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.10-relnotes.md index 9a6d63c16c..ce1c713b49 100644 --- a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.10-relnotes.md +++ b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.10-relnotes.md @@ -1,18 +1,39 @@ -Upcoming release - coreboot 4.10 +coreboot 4.10 release notes =========================== -The 4.10 release is planned for April/May 2019 +The 4.10 release covers commit a2faaa9a2 to commit ae317695e3 +There is a pgp signed 4.10 tag in the git repository, and a branch will +be created as needed. -Update this document with changes that should be in the release -notes. -* Please use Markdown. -* See the [4.7](coreboot-4.7-relnotes.md) and [4.9](coreboot-4.9-relnotes.md) - release notes for the general format. -* The chip and board additions and removals will be updated right -before the release, so those do not need to be added. +In nearly 8 months since 4.9 we had 198 authors commit 2538 changes +to master. Of these, 85 authors made their first commit to coreboot: +Welcome! -Significant changes -------------------- +Between the releases the tree grew by about 11000 lines of code plus +5000 lines of comments. + +Again, a big Thank You to all contributors who helped shape the coreboot +project, community and code with their effort, no matter if through +development, review, testing, documentation or by helping people asking +questions on our venues like IRC or our mailing list. + +What's New +---------- + +Most of the changes were to mainboards, and on the chipset side, lots +of activity concentrated on x86. However compared to previous releases +activity (and therefore interest, probably) increased in vboot and in +non-x86 architectures. However it's harder this time to give this release +a single topic like the last: This release accumulates some of everything. + +Clean Up +-------- +As usual, there was a lot of cleaning up going on, and there notably, +a good chunk of this year's Google Summer of Code project to clean out +the issues reported by Coverity Scan is already in. + +The only larger scale change that was registered in the pre-release +notes was also about cleaning up the tree: ### `device_t` is no more coreboot used to have a data type, `device_t` that changed shape depending on @@ -22,3 +43,96 @@ time when romstage wasn't operated in Cache-As-RAM mode, but compiled with our romcc compiler. That data type is now gone. + +Release Notes maintenance +------------------------- +Speaking of pre-release notes: After 4.10 we'll start a document for +4.11 in the git repository. Feel free to add notable achievements there +so we remember to give them a shout out in the next release's notes. + +Known Issues +------------ +Sadly, Google Cyan is broken in this release. It doesn't work with the +"C environment" bootblock (as compared to the old romcc type bootblock) +which is now the default. Sadly it doesn't help to simply revert that +change because doing so breaks other boards. + +If you want to use Google Cyan with the release (or if +you're tracking the master branch), please keep an eye on +https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/34304 where a solution for this +issue is sought. + +Deprecations +------------ +As announced in the 4.9 release notes, there are no deprecations after 4.10. +While 4.10 is also released late and we target a 4.11 release in October we +nonetheless want to announce deprecations this time: These are under +discussion since January, people are working on mitigations for about as long +and so it should be possible to resolve the outstanding issues by the end of +October. + +Specifically, we want to require code to work with the following Kconfig +options so we can remove the options and the code they disable: + +* C\_ENVIRONMENT\_BOOTBLOCK +* NO\_CAR\_GLOBAL\_MIGRATION + +These only affect x86. If your platform only works without them, please +look into fixing that. + +Added 28 mainboards: +-------------------- +ASROCK H110M-DVS +ASUS H61M-CS +ASUS P5G41T-M-LX +ASUS P5QPL-AM +ASUS P8Z77-M-PRO +FACEBOOK FBG1701 +FOXCONN G41M +GIGABYTE GA-H61MA-D3V +GOOGLE BLOOG +GOOGLE FLAPJACK +GOOGLE GARG +GOOGLE HATCH-WHL +GOOGLE HELIOS +GOOGLE KINDRED +GOOGLE KODAMA +GOOGLE KOHAKU +GOOGLE KRANE +GOOGLE MISTRAL +HP COMPAQ-8200-ELITE-SFF-PC +INTEL COMETLAKE-RVP +INTEL KBLRVP11 +LENOVO R500 +LENOVO X1 +MSI MS7707 +PORTWELL M107 +PURISM LIBREM13-V4 +PURISM LIBREM15-V4 +SUPERMICRO X10SLM-PLUS-F +UP SQUARED + +Removed 7 mainboards: +--------------------- +GOOGLE BIP +GOOGLE DELAN +GOOGLE ROWAN +PCENGINES ALIX1C +PCENGINES ALIX2C +PCENGINES ALIX2D +PCENGINES ALIX6 + +Removed 3 processors: +--------------------- +src/cpu/amd/geode\_lx +src/cpu/intel/model\_69x +src/cpu/intel/model\_6dx + +Added 2 socs: +------------- +src/soc/amd/picasso +src/soc/qualcomm/qcs405 + +Toolchain +--------- +* Update to gcc 8.3.0, binutils 2.32, IASL 20190509, clang 8 diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..995a8e7eea --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +Upcoming release - coreboot 4.11 +================================ + +The 4.11 release is planned for October 2019 + +Update this document with changes that should be in the release +notes. +* Please use Markdown. +* See the [4.9](coreboot-4.9-relnotes.md) and [4.10](coreboot-4.10-relnotes.md) + release notes for the general format. +* The chip and board additions and removals will be updated right + before the release, so those do not need to be added. + +Significant changes +------------------- + +### Add significant changes here |