Patrick Georgi has uploaded this change for review. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36948 )
Change subject: Documentation/releases: Finalize 4.11, start 4.12 ......................................................................
Documentation/releases: Finalize 4.11, start 4.12
Fill in some stats using our repo analysis scripts in util/release/, thank the contributors, add some prose about notable achievements since 4.10.
Also start a new doc for 4.12.
Change-Id: I10a39081762d6e01f4040f717d36662975e4c8e9 Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi pgeorgi@google.com --- M Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md A Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.12-relnotes.md 2 files changed, 106 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot refs/changes/48/36948/1
diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md index fa0da77..b2f8a25 100644 --- a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md +++ b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md @@ -1,18 +1,99 @@ Upcoming release - coreboot 4.11 ================================
-The 4.11 release is planned for October 2019 +coreboot 4.11 was released on November 19th.
-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. +This release cycle was a bit shorter to get closer to our regular +schedule of releasing in spring and autumn. + +Since 4.10 there were 1630 new commits by over 130 developers. +Of these, about 30 contributed to coreboot for the first time. + +Thank you to all contributors who made 4.11 what is it and welcome +to the project to all new contributors!
Clean Up -------- + +The past few months saw lots of clean up across the source tree: + +The included headers in source files were stripped down to avoid reading +unused headers, and unused code fragments, duplicate preprocessor symbols +and configuration options were eliminated. Even ACPI got its share +of attention, making our tables and bytecode more standards compliant +than ever. + +The code across Intel's chipsets was unified some more into drivers +for common function blocks, an effort we're more confident will +succeed now that Intel itself is driving it. + +Chipset work +------------ + +Most activity in the last couple months was on Intel support, +specifically the Kaby Lake and CannonLake drivers that were extended +for the generations that follow them. + +On ARM, the Mediatek 8173 chipset support saw significant work while +the AMD side worked on getting Picasso support in. + +But everything else also saw some action, the relatively old +(e.g. Intel GM45, Via VX900), the tiny (RISC-V) and the obscure +(Quark). + +Verified Boot +------------- + +The vboot feature that Chromebooks brought into coreboot was extended +to work on devices that weren't specially adapted for it: In addition +to its original device family it's now supported on various Lenovo +laptops, Open Compute Project systems and Siemens' industrial machines. + +Eltan's support for measured boot continues to be integrated with +vboot, sharing data structures and generally working together where +possible. + +New devices +----------- + +With 4.11 there's the beginning of support for Intel Tigerlake and +Qualcomm's SC7180 SoCs, while we removed the unmaintained support +for Allwinner's A10 SoC. + +There are also 25 new mainboards in our tree: + +* AMD PADMELON +* ASUS P5QL-EM +* EMULATION QEMU-AARCH64 +* GOOGLE AKEMI +* GOOGLE ARCADA CML +* GOOGLE DAMU +* GOOGLE DOOD +* GOOGLE DRALLION +* GOOGLE DRATINI +* GOOGLE JACUZZI +* GOOGLE JUNIPER +* GOOGLE KAKADU +* GOOGLE KAPPA +* GOOGLE PUFF +* GOOGLE SARIEN CML +* GOOGLE TREEYA +* GOOGLE TROGDOR +* LENOVO R60 +* LENOVO T410 +* LENOVO THINKPAD T440P +* LENOVO X301 +* RAZER BLADE-STEALTH KBL +* SIEMENS MC-APL6 +* SUPERMICRO X11SSH-TF +* SUPERMICRO X11SSM-F + +In addition to the Cubieboard (which uses the A10 SoC), we also +removed Google Hatch WHL. + +Deprecations +------------ + Because there was only a single developer board (AMD Torpedo) using AGESA family 12h, and because there were multiple, unique Coverity issues with it, the associated vendorcode will @@ -98,6 +179,7 @@ * intel/x4x * intel/gm45 * intel/nehalem +* intel/sandybridge * intel/braswell
### libgfxinit ### diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.12-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.12-relnotes.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f9c5f7e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.12-relnotes.md @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +Upcoming release - coreboot 4.12 +================================ + +The 4.12 release is planned for April 2020 + +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. + +Significant changes +------------------- + +### Add significant changes here