Patrick Georgi has uploaded this change for review. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36751 )
Change subject: Documentation: Add more entries to 4.11 release notes ......................................................................
Documentation: Add more entries to 4.11 release notes
Change-Id: I1b013c4d7012f1db9591bea98ec1fe7acbc85afe Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi pgeorgi@google.com --- M Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md 1 file changed, 41 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot refs/changes/51/36751/1
diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md index d4fed06..281fb2a 100644 --- a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md +++ b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md @@ -18,11 +18,14 @@ 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 @@ -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
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Change subject: Documentation: Add more entries to 4.11 release notes ......................................................................
Patch Set 1:
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https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36751/1/Documentation/releases/core... File Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md:
https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36751/1/Documentation/releases/core... PS1, Line 31: __PRE_RAM_ __PRE_RAM__ ?
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Change subject: Documentation: Add more entries to 4.11 release notes ......................................................................
Documentation: Add more entries to 4.11 release notes
Change-Id: I1b013c4d7012f1db9591bea98ec1fe7acbc85afe Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi pgeorgi@google.com --- M Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md 1 file changed, 42 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
git pull ssh://review.coreboot.org:29418/coreboot refs/changes/51/36751/2
Patrick Georgi has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36751 )
Change subject: Documentation: Add more entries to 4.11 release notes ......................................................................
Patch Set 2:
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https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36751/1/Documentation/releases/core... File Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.11-relnotes.md:
https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36751/1/Documentation/releases/core... PS1, Line 31: __PRE_RAM_
__PRE_RAM__ ?
Indeed. Fixed.
Kyösti Mälkki has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36751 )
Change subject: Documentation: Add more entries to 4.11 release notes ......................................................................
Patch Set 2: Code-Review+2
HAOUAS Elyes has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36751 )
Change subject: Documentation: Add more entries to 4.11 release notes ......................................................................
Patch Set 2: Code-Review+2
Patrick Georgi has submitted this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36751 )
Change subject: Documentation: Add more entries to 4.11 release notes ......................................................................
Documentation: Add more entries to 4.11 release notes
Change-Id: I1b013c4d7012f1db9591bea98ec1fe7acbc85afe Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi pgeorgi@google.com Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36751 Reviewed-by: Kyösti Mälkki kyosti.malkki@gmail.com Reviewed-by: HAOUAS Elyes ehaouas@noos.fr Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) no-reply@coreboot.org --- 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
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