From b6777d82354a0cd00d9031e393f0f075228917de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Roth Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2022 13:31:04 -0600 Subject: Docs/releases: Add 4.19 relnotes template and update index The 4.19 release is planned for January 2023. Please add any updates to the coreboot code that are should go into the notes between now and then. This helps in that you get to phrase the update the way you want, and it lessens the load for the release managers. Signed-off-by: Martin Roth Change-Id: Ib5a7ddfc6cb1a8e0a485c1e1810631c86f4083c3 Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/68459 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Felix Singer --- Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.19-relnotes.md | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/releases/index.md | 3 +- 2 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.19-relnotes.md diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.19-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.19-relnotes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..20b052e796 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.19-relnotes.md @@ -0,0 +1,64 @@ +Upcoming release - coreboot 4.19 +======================================================================== + +The 4.19 release is planned for January 2023. + +Update this document with changes that should be in the release notes. + +* Please use Markdown. +* See the past few 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. +* Note that all changes before the release are done are marked upcoming. + A final version of the notes are done after the release. + +Significant changes +------------------- + +### Add significant changes here + + + +Additional coreboot changes +--------------------------- + +* One or two line change comments go here + + + +Payloads +-------- + +### Payload changes go here + + + +Plans for Code Deprecation +-------------------------- + + +### Intel Icelake SoC & Icelake RVP mainboard + +Intel Icelake is unmaintained. Also, the only user of this platform ever +was the Intel CRB (Customer Reference Board). From the looks of it the +code was never ready for production as only engineering sample CPUIDs +are supported. This reduces the maintanence overhead for the coreboot +project. + +Intel Icelake code will be removed with release 4.19 and any maintenence +will be done on the 4.19 branch. This consists of the Intel Icelake SoC +and Intel Icelake RVP mainboard. + + +### Intel Quark SoC & Galileo mainboard + +The SoC Intel Quark is unmaintained and different efforts to revive it +failed. Also, the only user of this platform ever was the Galileo +board. + +Thus, to reduce the maintanence overhead for the community, support for +the following components will be removed from the master branch and will +be maintained on the release 4.20 branch. + + * Intel Quark SoC + * Intel Galileo mainboard diff --git a/Documentation/releases/index.md b/Documentation/releases/index.md index f1326b6e97..4e36920e87 100644 --- a/Documentation/releases/index.md +++ b/Documentation/releases/index.md @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ ## Upcoming release Please add to the release notes as changes are added: -* [4.18 - Aug 2022](coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md) +* [4.19 - Jan 2023](coreboot-4.19-relnotes.md) The [checklist] contains instructions to ensure that a release covers all important things and provides a reliable format for tarballs, branch @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ important is taken care of. ## Previous releases +* [4.18 - Oct 2022](coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md) * [4.17 - May 2022](coreboot-4.17-relnotes.md) * [4.16 - Feb 2022](coreboot-4.16-relnotes.md) * [4.15 - November 2021](coreboot-4.15-relnotes.md) -- cgit v1.2.3