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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.10.7.rst b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.10.7.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..02c4dd2 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.10.7.rst @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +.. _skiboot-5.10.7: + +============== +skiboot-5.10.7 +============== + +skiboot 5.10.7 was released on Friday March 21st, 2019. It replaces +:ref:`skiboot-5.10.6` as the current stable release in the 5.10.x series. + +It is expected that this will be the final 5.10.x version, with 6.2.x taking +over as the main stable branch. + +Over :ref:`skiboot-5.10.6`, we have the following fixes: + +- libffs: Fix string truncation gcc warning. + + Use memcpy as other libffs functions do. + +- hdata/i2c.c: fix building with gcc8 + + hdata/test/../i2c.c:200:1: error: alignment 1 of ‘struct host_i2c_hdr’ is less than 4 [-Werror=packed-not-aligned] + } __packed; + ^ + +- opal-prd: Fix opal-prd crash + + Presently callback function from HBRT uses r11 to point to target function + pointer. r12 is garbage. This works fine when we compile with "-no-pie" option + (as we don't use r12 to calculate TOC). + + As per ABIv2 : "r12 : Function entry address at global entry point" + + With "-pie" compilation option, we have to set r12 to point to global function + entry point. So that we can calculate TOC properly. + + Crash log without this patch: + opal-prd[2864]: unhandled signal 11 at 0000000000029320 nip 00000 00102012830 lr 0000000102016890 code 1 |