From d0b7adac7a61795213f4d3bb0345a4f90eb7568a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Georgi Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 13:41:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/releases: Note the disappearance of device_t MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit That was truly a huge task. Change-Id: Ifd79aaf005bf39744bd4fd930ba2441f966ec0b3 Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/30669 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Angel Pons Reviewed-by: Kyösti Mälkki --- Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.10-relnotes.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.10-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.10-relnotes.md index b8e0373f86..9a6d63c16c 100644 --- a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.10-relnotes.md +++ b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.10-relnotes.md @@ -10,3 +10,15 @@ notes. release notes for the general format. * The chip and board additions and removals will be updated right before the release, so those do not need to be added. + +Significant changes +------------------- + +### `device_t` is no more +coreboot used to have a data type, `device_t` that changed shape depending on +whether it is compiled for romstage (with limited memory) or ramstage (with +unlimited memory as far as coreboot is concerned). It's an old relic from the +time when romstage wasn't operated in Cache-As-RAM mode, but compiled with +our romcc compiler. + +That data type is now gone.