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author | Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2016-07-12 14:54:57 +1000 |
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committer | Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2016-07-12 14:54:57 +1000 |
commit | 65e436ad726aac81fe8acca55868afdf9d5f3161 (patch) | |
tree | 5eae66334a07186552e2842d0a3624c774c32a79 | |
parent | 11420af4cf3354382f96e408aade53fc776c544e (diff) | |
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Add skiboot-5.2.4 release notesskiboot-5.2.4
Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.2.4.txt b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.2.4.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bedac01 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.2.4.txt @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +skiboot-5.2.4 +------------- + +skiboot-5.2.4 was released on Tuesday July 12th, 2016. + +This is the 5th stable release of skiboot 5.2, the new stable release of +skiboot (first release with 5.2.0 on March 16th 2016). + +Skiboot 5.2.4 replaces skiboot-5.2.3 as the current stable version, which was +released on June 30th 2016. Over skiboot-5.2.3, skiboot 5.2.4 contains bug +fixes to make skiboot more resilient to errors in the XSCOM engine and some +build improvements for the pflash utility. + +skiboot-5.2.4 contains all bug fixes as of skiboot-5.1.16. + +This is the second release that will follow the (now documented) Skiboot +stable rules - see doc/stable-skiboot-rules.txt. + +Over skiboot-5.2.3, the following fixes are included: + +All platforms: +- Make the XSCOM engine code more resilient to errors: + - hw/xscom: Reset XSCOM engine after querying sleeping core FIR + - hw/xscom: Reset XSCOM engine after finite number of retries when busy + +Userspace utilities: +- pflash build improvements |