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Upcoming release - coreboot 4.18
The 4.18 release is planned for August 2022.
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edk2 (Tianocore)
coreboot uses TianoCore interchangeably with EDK II, and whilst the meaning is generally clear, it's not the payload it uses. Consequentially, Tianocore has been renamed to EDK II (2).
The option to use the already depreciated CorebootPayloadPkg has been removed.
Recent changes to both coreboot and edk2 means that UefiPayloadPkg seems to work on all hardware. It has been tested on:
- Intel Core 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th generation processors
- Intel Small Core BYT, BSW, APL, GLK and GLK-R processors
- AMD Stoney Ridge and Picasso
CorebootPayloadPkg can still be found here.
The recommended option to use is EDK2_UEFIPAYLOAD_MRCHROMEBOX as
EDK2_UEFIPAYLOAD_OFFICIAL will no longer work on any SOC.
Plans for Code Deprecation
Intel Icelake
Intel Icelake code will be removed with the release 4.19. This consists of the Intel Icelake SOC and Intel Icelake RVP mainboard
Intel Icelake is unmaintained. Also, the only user of this platform ever was the CRB board. From the looks of it the code never was ready for 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 immediately following this release. Anyone looking for the latest version of the code should find it on the 4.18 branch.
This also includes the codepath for SMM_ASEG. This code is used to start APs and do some feature programming on each AP, but also set up SMM. This has largely been superseded by PARALLEL_MP, which should be able to cover all use cases of LEGACY_SMP_INIT, with little code changes. The reason for deprecation is that having 2 codepaths to do the virtually the same increases maintenance burden on the community a lot, while also being rather confusing.