[coreboot] coreboot 4.5 release notes

[Riko Ho]

Congratulation,

Does qemu support i946 and ICH 7 simulation ?
I have *.bin file, can I run on Qemu to see how it runs ? Or it must be 
physically run and tap via SerialICE ?

Cheers
On 21/10/2016 2:21 AM, Mike Banon wrote:
> Coreboot 4.5 has been released quietly two days ago
> (http://www.coreboot.org/downloads.html) , but we haven't seen the
> release notes yet - either at http://blogs.coreboot.org/ or
> elsewhere...
>
> According to http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards page, so
> far the following systems have been successfully tested with this
> release:
>
> * Lenovo G505S - http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#lenovo.2Fg505s
> * Lenovo X201 - http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#lenovo.2Fx201
> * Lenovo X220 - http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#lenovo.2Fx220
> * ASUS KFSN4-DRE -
> http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#asus.2Fkfsn4-dre
> * ASUS KGPE-D16 - http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#asus.2Fkgpe-d16
> * GIGABYTE GA-B75M-D3V -
> http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#gigabyte.2Fga-b75m-d3v
> * ASROCK E350M1 - http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#asrock.2Fe350m1
> * Google ( Acer ) C720 Chromebook -
> http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#google.2Fpeppy
> * Emulation QEMU x86 q35/ich9 -
> http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#emulation.2Fqemu-q35
>
> These successful test reports have been submitted after the quoted
> Martin Roth's message below. Cheers!
>
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Martin Roth <gaumless at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>   We're coming up on our next coreboot release.  We'd like to get the
>> release done around the middle of October, but if there are issues in
>> flight, we can delay it a bit.  The release will absolutely happen before
>> end of the month.
>>
>> If anyone is working on major changes that will affect all of coreboot, I'd
>> request that they hold off until after the release so we have time to
>> stabilize before the release.
>>
>> Please test platforms that you're interested in now, and as we get closer
>> to the release.  I'll create a list of validated platforms to include in
>> the release notes, so if you want your favorite platform listed as having
>> been tested in the release notes, please test it now, and post it to the
>> board_status tracker.  I'll release updated documentation for running
>> board_status in the next few days.
>>
>> We've got a number of outstanding issues right now, both on the coreboot
>> issue tracker, and in coverity.  Please take a moment to look over these
>> issues and if there are any in an area that you think you can fix, please
>> take a swing at them.
>>