[coreboot-gerrit] Change in coreboot[master]: Documentation: Add more entries to 4.11 release notes

[Patrick Georgi (Code Review)]

Patrick Georgi has submitted this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36751 )

Change subject: Documentation: Add more entries to 4.11 release notes
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Documentation: Add more entries to 4.11 release notes

Change-Id: I1b013c4d7012f1db9591bea98ec1fe7acbc85afe
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi 
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36751
Reviewed-by: Kyösti Mälkki 
Reviewed-by: HAOUAS Elyes 
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) 
---
M Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md
1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Approvals:
  build bot (Jenkins): Verified
  Kyösti Mälkki: Looks good to me, approved
  HAOUAS Elyes: Looks good to me, approved

diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md
index d4fed06..b4515ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md
+++ b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md
@@ -18,14 +18,17 @@
 unique Coverity issues with it, the associated vendorcode will
 be removed shortly after this release.

+Support for the MIPS architecture will also be removed shortly after
+this release as the only board in the tree was a discontinued development
+board and no other work has picked up MIPS support, so it's very likely
+broken already.
+
 Significant changes
 -------------------

-### Add significant changes here
-
 ### `__PRE_RAM__` is deprecated

-Preprocessor use of `defined(__PRE_RAM_)` have been mostly replaced with
+Preprocessor use of `defined(__PRE_RAM__)` have been mostly replaced with
 `if (ENV_ROMSTAGE_OR_BEFORE)` or the inverse `if (ENV_RAMSTAGE)`.

The remaining cases and `-D__PRE_RAM__` are to be removed soon after release.
@@ -50,6 +53,42 @@
 Significant refactoring has bee done to achieve some consistency across platforms
 and to reduce code duplication.

+### Build system amenities ###
+
+The build system now has an `all` class of source files to remove the need to
+list source files for each and every source class (romstage, ramstage, ...)
+
+The site-local/ mechanism became more robust.
+
+### Stricter coding standards to improve security ###
+
+The build now fails on variable length arrays (that make it way too easy to
+smash a stack) and case statements falling through without a note that it is
+intentional.
+
+### Shorter file headers ###
+
+This project is still under way, but we started moving author information
+from individual files into the global AUTHORS file (and there's the git
+history for more details).
+
+In the future, we also want to replace the license headers (lots of lines)
+in each file with spdx identifiers (one line) and so we added a LICENSES/
+directory that contains the full text of all the licenses that are used
+throughout our tree.
+
+### Variant creation scripts ###
+
+To ease the creation of variant boards, `util/mainboard/` now contains
+scripts to generate a new variant to a given board. These are still
+specific to google/hatch at this time, but they're written with the idea
+of becoming more generally useful.
+
+### Payloads ###
+
+Payload integration has been updated, coreinfo learned to cope with
+UPPER CASE commands and libpayload knows how to deal with USB3 hubs.
+
 ### Added VBOOT support to the following platforms:
 * intel/gm45
 * intel/nehalem