| .. _skiboot-5.5.0-rc3: |
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| skiboot-5.5.0-rc3 |
| ================= |
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| skiboot-5.5.0-rc3 was released on Wednesday April 5th 2017. It is the third |
| release candidate of skiboot 5.5, which will become the new stable release |
| of skiboot following the 5.4 release, first released November 11th 2016. |
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| skiboot-5.5.0-rc3 contains all bug fixes as of :ref:`skiboot-5.4.3` |
| and :ref:`skiboot-5.1.19` (the currently maintained stable releases). |
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| For how the skiboot stable releases work, see :ref:`stable-rules` for details. |
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| The current plan is to cut the final 5.5.0 by April 8th, with skiboot 5.5.0 |
| being for all POWER8 and POWER9 platforms in op-build v1.16 (Due April 12th). |
| This is a short cycle as this release is mainly targetted towards POWER9 |
| bringup efforts. |
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| Following skiboot-5.5.0, we will move to a regular six week release cycle, |
| similar to op-build, but slightly offset to allow for a short stabilisation |
| period. Expected release dates and contents are tracked using GitHub milestone |
| and issues: https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/milestones |
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| Over :ref:`skiboot-5.5.0-rc2`, we have the following changes: |
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| - xive: Fix setting of remote NVT VSD |
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| This fixes a checkstop when using my XIVE exploitation mode on some multi-chip machines. |
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| - core/init: Use '_' as separator in names of "exports" properties |
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| The names of the properties under /ibm,opal/firmware/exports are used |
| directly by Linux to create files in sysfs. To remain consistent with |
| the existing naming of OPAL sysfs files, use '_' as the separator. |
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| In particular for the symbol map which is already exported separately, |
| it's cleaner for the two files to have the same name, eg: :: |
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| /sys/firmware/opal/exports/symbol_map |
| /sys/firmware/opal/symbol_map |
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| - hdata: fix reservation size |
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| The hostboot reserved ranges are [start, end] pairs rather than |
| [start, end) so we need to stick a +1 in there to calculate the |
| size properly. |
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| - hdat: Add model-name property for OpenPower system |
| - hdat: Read description from ibm, vpd binary blob |
| - hdat: Populate model property with 'Unknown' in error path |