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author | Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-10-13 16:32:24 +1100 |
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committer | Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com> | 2015-10-13 16:32:24 +1100 |
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Add skiboot-5.1.7 release notes
Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith <stewart@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.1.7.txt b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.1.7.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..29f9ed5 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.1.7.txt @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +skiboot-5.1.7 +------------- + +skiboot-5.1.7 was released on October 13th, 2015. + +skiboot-5.1.7 is the 8th stable release of 5.1, it follows skiboot-5.1.6 +(which was released October 8th, 2015). + +Skiboot 5.1.7 contains all fixes from skiboot-5.1.6 and is a minor bug +fix release with one important bug fix for FSP systems. + +Over skiboot-5.1.6, we have the following changes: + +Generic: +- PHB3: Retry fundamental reset + This introduces another PHB3 state (PHB3_STATE_FRESET_START) + allowing to redo fundamental reset if the link doesn't come up + in time at the first attempt, to improve the robustness of PHB's + fundamental reset. If the link comes up after the first reset, + the 2nd reset won't be issued at all. + +FSP based systems: +- hw/fsp/fsp-leds.c: use allocated buffer for FSP_CMD_GET_LED_LIST response + + This fixes a bug where we would overwrite roughly 4kb of memory belonging + to Linux when the FSP would ask firmware for a list of LEDs in the system. + This wouldn't happen often (once before Linux was running and possibly + only once during runtime, and *early* runtime at that) but it was possible + for this corruption to show up and be detected. |