From ad115334580d0d26d8482f99f07b93645e420cc3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Felix Singer Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 23:31:32 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs/releases/4.18: Deprecate Intel Quark and Intel Galileo The SoC Intel Quark is unmaintained and various efforts to revive it failed. Thus, deprecate the following components with the 4.18 release. * Intel Quark SoC * Intel Galileo mainboard The support for these components will be dropped with the release 4.20. Change-Id: I738ad74da043649107473dc0c2e6adf343e4cd35 Signed-off-by: Felix Singer Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/68260 Reviewed-by: ron minnich Reviewed-by: Arthur Heymans Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) --- Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md index 0a4514a447..a8e25bf7cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md +++ b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md @@ -50,6 +50,19 @@ production as only engineering sample CPUIDs are supported. This reduces the maintanence overhead for the coreboot project. +### Intel Quark + +The SoC Intel Quark is unmaintained and different efforts to revive it failed. +Also, the only user of this platform ever was the Galileo board. + +Thus, to reduce the maintanence overhead for the community, it is deprecated +from this release on and support for the following components will be dropped +with the release 4.20. + + * Intel Quark SoC + * Intel Galileo mainboard + + ### LEGACY_SMP_INIT Legacy SMP init will be removed from the coreboot master branch