Add skiboot-5.1.5 release notesskiboot-5.1.5

Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

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+skiboot-5.1.5
+-------------
+
+skiboot-5.1.5 was released on October 1st, 2015.
+
+skiboot-5.1.5 is the 6th stable release of 5.1, it follows skiboot-5.1.4
+(which was released September 26th, 2015).
+
+Skiboot 5.1.5 contains all fixes from skiboot-5.1.4 and is a minor bug
+fix release.
+
+Over skiboot-5.1.4, we have the following changes:
+
+Generic:
+- centaur: Add indirect XSCOM support
+  Fixes a bug where opal-prd would not be able to recover from a bunch
+  of errors as the indirect XSCOMs to centaurs would fail.
+- xscom: Fix logging of indirect XSCOM errors
+  Better logging of error messages.
+- PHB3: Fix wrong PE number in error injection
+- Improvement in boot_test.sh utility to support copying a pflash binary
+  to BMCs.
+
+AST BMC machines:
+- ipmi-sel: Run power action immediately if host not up
+    Our normal sequence for a soft power action (IPMI 'power soft' or
+    'power cycle') involve receiving a SEL from the BMC, sending a message
+    to Linux's opal platform support which instructs the host OS to shut
+    down, and finally the host will request OPAL to cut power.
+
+    When the host is not yet up we will send the message to /dev/null, and
+    no action will be taken. This patches changes that behaviour to perform
+    the action immediately if we know how.
+
+OpenPower machines:
+- opal-prd: Increase IPMI timeout to a slightly better value
+  Proactively bump the timeout to 5seconds to match current value in petitboot
+  Observed in the wild that this fixes bugs for petitboot.
+