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| author | Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.ibm.com> | 2023-09-08 14:30:46 -0500 |
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| committer | Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.ibm.com> | 2023-09-12 13:44:04 -0500 |
| commit | dbd5de6624d7466bb67d1eb4e57bc3a8e2ad9e87 (patch) | |
| tree | e91441d597046549c43baa48fb9630cba498a385 | |
| parent | 3d634a147b49ecb93a9a851433140f91d1efd74a (diff) | |
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skiboot v7.1 release notesv7.1
Signed-off-by: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel@jms.id.au>
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/skiboot-7.1.rst b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-7.1.rst index 8e37450..efc9bce 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes/skiboot-7.1.rst +++ b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-7.1.rst @@ -3,6 +3,13 @@ skiboot-7.1 =========== +skiboot v7.1 was released on Monday Sep 18th 2023. It is the first release of +the skiboot 7.1 series, which becomes the new stable release following the +:ref:`skiboot-7.0` release, first released Tuesday Oct 26th 2021. + +Changes in this release are mostly bug fixes, refactoring improvements, and +some code deprecation/obsoletion. + New Features ------------ Removed OPAL calls @@ -10,3 +17,9 @@ Removed OPAL calls The OPAL_PCI_SET_MVE_ENABLE and OPAL_PCI_SET_MVE calls were removed, as they were noops. Support for IODA1 and both calls was removed from the Linux kernel in v6.5-rc1. + +Optional POWER8 support +^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ +Most POWER8 code has been conditionalized, making it possible to omit support by +building with `CONFIG_P8=0`. The result is a smaller binary targeting POWER9 as +the baseline CPU. |