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author | Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-04-05 18:05:36 +1000 |
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committer | Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2017-04-05 18:05:36 +1000 |
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add skiboot-5.5.0-rc3 release notesskiboot-5.5.0-rc3
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.5.0-rc3.rst b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.5.0-rc3.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dbb588c --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.5.0-rc3.rst @@ -0,0 +1,51 @@ +.. _skiboot-5.5.0-rc3: + +skiboot-5.5.0-rc3 +================= + +skiboot-5.5.0-rc3 was released on Wednesday April 5th 2017. It is the third +release candidate of skiboot 5.5, which will become the new stable release +of skiboot following the 5.4 release, first released November 11th 2016. + +skiboot-5.5.0-rc3 contains all bug fixes as of :ref:`skiboot-5.4.3` +and :ref:`skiboot-5.1.19` (the currently maintained stable releases). + +For how the skiboot stable releases work, see :ref:`stable-rules` for details. + +The current plan is to cut the final 5.5.0 by April 8th, with skiboot 5.5.0 +being for all POWER8 and POWER9 platforms in op-build v1.16 (Due April 12th). +This is a short cycle as this release is mainly targetted towards POWER9 +bringup efforts. + +Following skiboot-5.5.0, we will move to a regular six week release cycle, +similar to op-build, but slightly offset to allow for a short stabilisation +period. Expected release dates and contents are tracked using GitHub milestone +and issues: https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/milestones + +Over :ref:`skiboot-5.5.0-rc2`, we have the following changes: + +- xive: Fix setting of remote NVT VSD + + This fixes a checkstop when using my XIVE exploitation mode on some multi-chip machines. + +- core/init: Use '_' as separator in names of "exports" properties + + The names of the properties under /ibm,opal/firmware/exports are used + directly by Linux to create files in sysfs. To remain consistent with + the existing naming of OPAL sysfs files, use '_' as the separator. + + In particular for the symbol map which is already exported separately, + it's cleaner for the two files to have the same name, eg: :: + + /sys/firmware/opal/exports/symbol_map + /sys/firmware/opal/symbol_map + +- hdata: fix reservation size + + The hostboot reserved ranges are [start, end] pairs rather than + [start, end) so we need to stick a +1 in there to calculate the + size properly. + +- hdat: Add model-name property for OpenPower system +- hdat: Read description from ibm, vpd binary blob +- hdat: Populate model property with 'Unknown' in error path |