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diff --git a/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.1.5.txt b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.1.5.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7b594bf --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.1.5.txt @@ -0,0 +1,39 @@ +skiboot-5.1.5 +------------- + +skiboot-5.1.5 was released on October 1st, 2015. + +skiboot-5.1.5 is the 6th stable release of 5.1, it follows skiboot-5.1.4 +(which was released September 26th, 2015). + +Skiboot 5.1.5 contains all fixes from skiboot-5.1.4 and is a minor bug +fix release. + +Over skiboot-5.1.4, we have the following changes: + +Generic: +- centaur: Add indirect XSCOM support + Fixes a bug where opal-prd would not be able to recover from a bunch + of errors as the indirect XSCOMs to centaurs would fail. +- xscom: Fix logging of indirect XSCOM errors + Better logging of error messages. +- PHB3: Fix wrong PE number in error injection +- Improvement in boot_test.sh utility to support copying a pflash binary + to BMCs. + +AST BMC machines: +- ipmi-sel: Run power action immediately if host not up + Our normal sequence for a soft power action (IPMI 'power soft' or + 'power cycle') involve receiving a SEL from the BMC, sending a message + to Linux's opal platform support which instructs the host OS to shut + down, and finally the host will request OPAL to cut power. + + When the host is not yet up we will send the message to /dev/null, and + no action will be taken. This patches changes that behaviour to perform + the action immediately if we know how. + +OpenPower machines: +- opal-prd: Increase IPMI timeout to a slightly better value + Proactively bump the timeout to 5seconds to match current value in petitboot + Observed in the wild that this fixes bugs for petitboot. + |