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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/skiboot-4.1.rst b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-4.1.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..341c10f --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-4.1.rst @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +.. _skiboot-4.1: + +=========== +skiboot 4.1 +=========== + +Skiboot 4.1 was released 10th December 2014. It was a release where more +development transitioned to the open source mailing list rather than internal +mailing lists. + +Changes include: + + - We now build with -fstack-protector and -Werror + - Stack checking extensions when built with STACK_CHECK=1 + - Reduced stack usage in some areas, -Wstack-usage=1024 now. + + - Some functions could use 2kb stack, now all are <1kb + - Unsafe libc functions such as sprintf() have been removed + - Symbolic backtraces + - expose skiboot symbol map to OS (via device-tree) + - removed machine check interrupt patching in OPAL + - occ/hbrt: Call stopOCC() for implementing reset OCC command from FSP + - occ: Fix the low level ACK message sent to FSP on receiving {RESET/LOAD}_OCC + - hardening to errors of various FSP code + + - fsp: Avoid NULL dereference in case of invalid class_resp bits- + abort if device tree parsing fails + - FSP: Validate fsp_msg in fsp_queue_msg + - fsp-elog: Add various NULL checks + - Finessing of when to use error log vs prerror() + - More i2c work + - Can now run under Mambo simulator (see external/mambo/skiboot.tcl) + (commonly known as "POWER8 Functional Simulator") + - Document skiboot versioning scheme + - opal: Handle more TFAC errors. + + - TB_RESIDUE_ERR, FW_CONTROL_ERR and CHIP_TOD_PARITY_ERR + - ipmi: populate FRU data + - rtc: Add a generic rtc cache + - ipmi/rtc: use generic cache + - Error Logging backend for bmc based machines + - PSI: Drive link down on HIR + - occ: Fix clearing of OCC interrupt on remote fix |