1coreboot 4.4 release notes 2========================== 3 4We are happy to announce the release of coreboot 4.4. This is our 5fourth quarterly release. Since the last release, we've had 850 commits 6by 90 authors adding 59000 lines to the codebase. 7 8The release tarballs are available at https://www.coreboot.org/releases/ 9There is a 4.4 tag and branch in the git repository. 10 11Log of commit 3141eac900 to commit 588ccaa9a7 12 13Major areas that received significant changes in for this release: 14* Build system (30 commits) - Add postcar stage, 'timeless' builds, 15 extend site-local, test toolchain by version string, update 16 dependencies, catch ACPI errors, add additional macros. 17* Toolchain updates (40+ patches) - Update IASL to v20160318 , LLVM to 18 v3.7.1, add GNU make, add nds32le GCC compiler 19* Lint tools (30 patches) - Update existing lint utilities, add lint 20 tests for executable bit, make sure site-local isn't committed, add 21 test to break all lint tests. 22* Payloads (60 commits) - Fixes for libpayload, coreinfo and nvramcui, 23 add new payloads, see below. 24* Maintainers file - (8 patches) - continue adding maintainers for 25 various areas. 26* Documentation for adding Intel FSP-based platforms (20 commits) 27 28Mainboards 29---------- 30### Added 9 mainboards 31* asus/kcma-d8 32* emulation/qemu-power8 33* google/auron_paine 34* google/gru 35* intel/amenia 36* intel/apollolake_rvp 37* intel/camelbackmountain_fsp 38* intel/galileo 39* lenovo/t420 40 41### Existing boards with significant updates 42* asus/kgpe-d16 43* google/oak 44* google/chell 45* intel/kunimitsu 46 47Changes in chips 48---------------- 49### Added 1 new architecture 50* power8 51 52### Added 1 processor 53* qemu-power8 54 55### Added 5 socs 56* intel/apollolake 57* intel/fsp_broadwell_de 58* intel/quark 59* marvell/armada38x 60* rockchip/rk3399 61 62### Existing chip areas with many changes 63* cpuamd/mct_ddr3 64* drivers/intel/fsp2_0 65* northbridge/intel/sandybridge/raminit 66* soc/intel/apollolake 67* soc/intel/fsp_baytrail 68* soc/intel/skylake 69* soc/mediatek/mt8173 70 71### Added 1 new vendorcode directory 72* siemens 73 74Submodules 75---------- 76### Added 1 submodule 77* chromeec 78 79### Updated 3 submodules 80* 3rdparty/arm-trusted-firmware (329 commits) 81* 3rdparty/vboot (28 commits) 82* util/nvidia/cbootimage (13 commits) 83 84Other 85----- 86### Added 4 payloads 87* depthcharge: For ChromeOS verified boot 88* iPXE: For network booting 89* Memtest86+: Updated with fixes for correctly testing coreboot with 90 payloads 91* U-Boot (Experimental): Alternate payload for booting an OS 92 93### Added 6 utilities 94* archive - Concatenates files into a single blob with an indexed header 95* chromeos - Download and extract blobs from a ChromeOS image 96* futility - vboot Firmware utility 97* intelmetool - Shows information about the Intel ME on a platform. 98* marvell/doimage_mv - No usage notes 99* post - Simple utility to test post cards 100 101coreboot statistics 102------------------- 103* Total Commits: 850 104* Total authors: 90 105* New authors: 28 106* Total Reviewers: 40 107* Total Submitters: 17 108* Total lines added: 74054 109* Total lines removed: -15056 110* Total difference: 58998 111