While some of these have little impact, they are worth mentioning here.
Change-Id: Idbf629ae77b8918ff1d93edb7b6c4669bbbe17df
Signed-off-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/47444
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz>
Xeon-SP Skylake Scalable Processor can have 36 CPU threads (18 cores).
Current coreboot SMM is unable to handle more than ~32 CPU threads.
This patch introduces a version 2 of the SMM module loader which
addresses this problem. Having two versions of the SMM module loader
prevents any issues to current projects. Future Xeon-SP products will
be using this version of the SMM loader. Subsequent patches will
enable board specific functionality for Xeon-SP.
The reason for moving to version 2 is the state save area begins to
encroach upon the SMI handling code when more than 32 CPU threads are
in the system. This can cause system hangs, reboots, etc. The second
change is related to staggered entry points with simple near jumps. In
the current loader, near jumps will not work because the CPU is jumping
within the same code segment. In version 2, "far" address jumps are
necessary therefore protected mode must be enabled first. The SMM
layout and how the CPUs are staggered are documented in the code.
By making the modifications above, this allows the smm module loader to
expand easily as more CPU threads are added.
TEST=build for Tiogapass platform under OCP mainboard. Enable the
following in Kconfig.
select CPU_INTEL_COMMON_SMM
select SOC_INTEL_COMMON_BLOCK_SMM
select SMM_TSEG
select HAVE_SMI_HANDLER
select ACPI_INTEL_HARDWARE_SLEEP_VALUES
Debug console will show all 36 cores relocated. Further tested by
generating SMI's to port 0xb2 using XDP/ITP HW debugger and ensured all
cores entering and exiting SMM properly. In addition, booted to Linux
5.4 kernel and observed no issues during mp init.
Change-Id: I00a23a5f2a46110536c344254868390dbb71854c
Signed-off-by: Rocky Phagura <rphagura@fb.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/43684
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
CB:41612 added a new set of tools for generating SPDs for TGL and JSL
based mainboards. This change adds relevant documentation to
coreboot-4.13 release notes.
Change-Id: I168adad25df9195dec64e8104f2dbe992eebddc6
Signed-off-by: Furquan Shaikh <furquan@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/42092
Reviewed-by: Karthik Ramasubramanian <kramasub@google.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
CB:41384 (SHA dbcf7b1621) added some new
functionality to devicetree files ("hidden PCI devices"). It's a decent
enough semantic change that it should be added to the release notes for
the 4.13 release.
Change-Id: I52969f63dbc492afd32279176cbcfc2b76d7ac33
Signed-off-by: Tim Wawrzynczak <twawrzynczak@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/41563
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Furquan Shaikh <furquan@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
Since I seem to forget to remove "Upcoming" in the release notes
every single time, and others might as well, fix it here and also
tell future release managers to take care of that.
Change-Id: I8ffe34f25e954621bdd635e115a8b1a914df9c27
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/41337
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
Fill in some blanks for 4.12, mark it done, add template for 4.13.
Also update the list of vboot supported boards.
Change-Id: Id6b663f13367eb40e66af30aadd33991c8dd635c
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <patrick@georgi.software>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/41259
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: HAOUAS Elyes <ehaouas@noos.fr>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jan Dabros <jsd@semihalf.com>
Change-Id: Id6365b86640832b91a722cd12f64c03fc8a41fd7
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/41025
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Reviewed-by: Paul Fagerburg <pfagerburg@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Update all occurrences of vboot and spell it lowercase.
Change-Id: I432b0db8a3dda43b71844e557a3d89180f25f1c3
Signed-off-by: Patrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph@9elements.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcello Sylvester Bauer <sylv@sylv.io>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/39799
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Some features are made mandatory, meaning that some platforms have
been dropped from master. This also explains that further development
on these popular platforms can happen on the 4.11 branch.
TODO is this really the right place or is it too technical for release
notes?
Change-Id: I95e01c301e7db6f81ef88a89d709ebab35c9ccfb
Signed-off-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/37064
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Reviewed-by: Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Hendricks <david.hendricks@gmail.com>
Add a script generated list of vboot enabled devices to the
documentation. Add a entry to the release checklist.
Change-Id: Ibb57d26c5f0cb8efd27ca9a97fd762c25b566f93
Signed-off-by: Marcello Sylvester Bauer <sylv@sylv.io>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/39200
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Rudolph <patrick.rudolph@9elements.com>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Use periods on every element of a list, and make `IRC` uppercase.
Also, correct a grammar mistake that slipped through.
Change-Id: Id05865719c7c845265416e89bfd9b02b6d22ca6c
Signed-off-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/37709
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Matt DeVillier <matt.devillier@gmail.com>
Make it part of the release process to note not only what config flags /
code properties etc will be deprecated, but to also spell out which
boards would be affected at the time of the release.
Change-Id: I0ef1404e75182ea4bacae31edb0a843e7a359545
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/37702
Reviewed-by: Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Nico Huber <nico.h@gmx.de>
Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Having the release notes mostly ready one week before the release
allows for better review.
Some statistics, the actual release date and commit ID can only be
filled in on release day, but there's a tried & true technique for
that: placeholders.
It's also a nice touch to have the release notes of a release within
its source tarballs, so push them right before creating the release
(since changes in Documentation/releases won't break coreboot in
any way).
Change-Id: Iad7ba1ba4fc841bf437f2a997428b7f636e15422
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36957
Reviewed-by: HAOUAS Elyes <ehaouas@noos.fr>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Fill in some stats using our repo analysis scripts in
util/release/, thank the contributors, add some prose
about notable achievements since 4.10.
Also start a new doc for 4.12.
Change-Id: I10a39081762d6e01f4040f717d36662975e4c8e9
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/36948
Reviewed-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
We keep a mirror in case any of the originals disappear, but we also
have to remember to update it.
Change-Id: Ib4be91d1d508d3d5dba7ace1d167d8e528d58b3d
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/34508
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin Roth <martinroth@google.com>
We plan to retire that symbol after 4.11 as well, with relocatable
ramstage becoming the normal mode of operation.
Change-Id: I36029215e5c8726f7dcc268bddc0d2b0161e3c40
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/34500
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: HAOUAS Elyes <ehaouas@noos.fr>
Reviewed-by: Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki@gmail.com>
4.9 was still marked as "upcoming" and 4.10 was missing altogether,
leading to a sphinx warning.
Change-Id: I008d546715b7841eb9f325a6f698380dd4c1a7c2
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/31126
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Rudolph <siro@das-labor.org>
Reviewed-by: Angel Pons <th3fanbus@gmail.com>
It's originally written by Martin who graciously allowed to me rework it
a bit and push it into coreboot's documentation.
Change-Id: I14938d678e4620abec7ed5f0d35dddaf00edda6d
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/30082
Reviewed-by: Stefan Reinauer <stefan.reinauer@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin Roth <martinroth@google.com>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
POWER8 is a specific implementation of ppc64, which is by now outdated
(POWER9 has been on the market for a while). Rename arch/power8/ to
potentially cover a wider range of hardware.
TEST=Toolchains built before/after this commit can build coreboot for
emulation/qemu-power8 from before/after this commit.
Change-Id: I2d6f08b12a9ffc8a652ddcd6f24ad85ecb33ca52
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/29943
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Timothy Pearson <tpearson@raptorengineering.com>
A colon usually indicates that something related follows. But in
Documentation/releases/index.md, nothing followed. Fix this by swapping
two lines.
Change-Id: I3e2750c208a2b725145b94615f64381ac763f0dc
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/28990
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin Roth <martinroth@google.com>
Headings are used to populate release note TOC.
Change-Id: I39b018ed4498555044616a3aa660abe1047b5449
Signed-off-by: Tom Hiller <thrilleratplay@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/27720
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin Roth <martinroth@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Correct links to coreboot release notes and fix related "document
isn't included in any toctree" warnings.
Change-Id: I6563da6f82f5686e54791331312434828c63f5a6
Signed-off-by: Tom Hiller <thrilleratplay@gmail.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/27719
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin Roth <martinroth@google.com>
From here on, changes should directly touch the release notes, but these
are notable, too.
Change-Id: I602d67f8dd38391663094212cdb4609cdad458ee
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@chromium.org>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/26886
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Reviewed-by: Martin Roth <martinroth@google.com>
This adds the release notes for all of our old releases that have notes
to the documentation directory. The release notes for the next release,
4.9 is added here as well.
I would request that people document their changes for the next release
themselves if they wish them to be in the release notes.
Change-Id: I7440a3130f2f7d80c4434d2b5a918e62bbd08fbb
Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <martinroth@google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/26799
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Rudolph <siro@das-labor.org>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@users.sourceforge.net>
Reviewed-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Angel Pons