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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. |