Martin Roth 42e422ed66 Documentation/releases: Add release notes

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>

2018-06-06 10:50:05 +00:00

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Announcing coreboot 4.4

We are happy to announce the release of coreboot 4.4. This is our fourth quarterly release. Since the last release, we've had 850 commits by 90 authors adding 59000 lines to the codebase.

The release tarballs are available at https://www.coreboot.org/releases/ There is a 4.4 tag and branch in the git repository.

Log of commit 3141eac900 to commit 588ccaa9a7

Major areas that received significant changes in for this release:

Build system (30 commits) - Add postcar stage, 'timeless' builds, extend site-local, test toolchain by version string, update dependencies, catch ACPI errors, add additional macros.
Toolchain updates (40+ patches) - Update IASL to v20160318 , LLVM to v3.7.1, add GNU make, add nds32le GCC compiler
Lint tools (30 patches) - Update existing lint utilities, add lint tests for executable bit, make sure site-local isn't committed, add test to break all lint tests.
Payloads (60 commits) - Fixes for libpayload, coreinfo and nvramcui, add new payloads, see below.
Maintainers file - (8 patches) - continue adding maintainers for various areas.
Documentation for adding Intel FSP-based platforms (20 commits)

Mainboards

Added 9 mainboards

asus/kcma-d8
emulation/qemu-power8
google/auron_paine
google/gru
intel/amenia
intel/apollolake_rvp
intel/camelbackmountain_fsp
intel/galileo
lenovo/t420

Existing boards with significant updates

asus/kgpe-d16
google/oak
google/chell
intel/kunimitsu

Changes in chips

Added 1 new architecture

power8

Added 1 processor

qemu-power8

Added 5 socs

intel/apollolake
intel/fsp_broadwell_de
intel/quark
marvell/armada38x
rockchip/rk3399

Existing chip areas with many changes

cpuamd/mct_ddr3
drivers/intel/fsp2_0
northbridge/intel/sandybridge/raminit
soc/intel/apollolake
soc/intel/fsp_baytrail
soc/intel/skylake
soc/mediatek/mt8173

Added 1 new vendorcode directory

siemens

Submodules

Added 1 submodule

chromeec

Updated 3 submodules

3rdparty/arm-trusted-firmware (329 commits)
3rdparty/vboot (28 commits)
util/nvidia/cbootimage (13 commits)

Other

Added 4 payloads

depthcharge: For ChromeOS verified boot
iPXE: For network booting
Memtest86+: Updated with fixes for correctly testing coreboot with payloads
U-Boot (Experimental): Alternate payload for booting an OS

Added 6 utilities

archive - Concatenates files into a single blob with an indexed header
chromeos - Download and extract blobs from a ChromeOS image
futility - vboot Firmware utility
intelmetool - Shows information about the Intel ME on a platform.
marvell/doimage_mv - No usage notes
post - Simple utility to test post cards

coreboot statistics

Total Commits: 850
Total authors: 90
New authors: 28
Total Reviewers: 40
Total Submitters: 17
Total lines added: 74054
Total lines removed: -15056
Total difference: 58998

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