[Skiboot] [PATCH] skiboot v7.1 release notes

Joel Stanley joel at jms.id.au
Mon Sep 11 14:38:13 AEST 2023


On Fri, 8 Sept 2023 at 19:31, Reza Arbab <arbab at linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> Signed-off-by: Reza Arbab <arbab at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> Will fix up "released on" date to match commit/tag.
>
>  doc/release-notes/skiboot-7.1.rst | 13 +++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/release-notes/skiboot-7.1.rst b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-7.1.rst
> index 8e37450a651b..a857f7b12b66 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 Aug 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.

Did this add the CONFIG_FSP option too, or was that already present?


Reviewed-by: Joel Stanley <joel at jms.id.au>


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