Patrick Georgi has uploaded this change for review. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/34469 )
Change subject: Documentation: Add 4.10/4.11 release notes ......................................................................
Documentation: Add 4.10/4.11 release notes
For 4.11 that's obviously just the release notes template.
Change-Id: I44c15bcaedf1367d745c533cc0a4acebdd2f812e Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi pgeorgi@google.com --- M Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.10-relnotes.md A Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md 2 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot refs/changes/69/34469/1
diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.10-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.10-relnotes.md index 9a6d63c..3800650 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 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 +43,84 @@ 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. + +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 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 and if your platform only works without them, please +look into fixing that. + +Added 31 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 8 mainboards: +------------------- +GOOGLE BIP +GOOGLE DELAN +GOOGLE ROWAN +PCENGINES ALIX1C +PCENGINES ALIX2C +PCENGINES ALIX2D +PCENGINES ALIX6 + +Removed 10 processors: +------------------- +src/cpu/amd/geode_lx +src/cpu/intel/model_69x +src/cpu/intel/model_6dx + +Added 3 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 0000000..d6d1b87 --- /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