| skiboot-5.2.0-rc1 |
| ================= |
| |
| skiboot-5.2.0-rc1 was released on Friday Feb 26th, 2016. |
| |
| skiboot-5.2.0-rc1 is the first release candidate of skiboot 5.2, which will |
| become the new stable release of skiboot following the 5.1 release, first |
| released August 17th, 2015. |
| |
| skiboot-5.2.0-rc1 contains all bug fixes as of skiboot-5.1.13. |
| |
| This is the second release that will follow the (now documented) Skiboot |
| stable rules - see :ref:`stable-rules`. |
| |
| The current plan is to release skiboot-5.2.0 mid-March 2016, with a focus on |
| bug fixing for future 5.2.0-rc releases. |
| |
| New Features |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| Over skiboot-5.1, the following features have been added: |
| |
| - Naples (P8', i.e. P8 with NVLINK) processor support, including NVLINK. |
| - Improvements in gard, libflash/pflash and opal-prd utilities |
| |
| - increased testing |
| - increased usability |
| - systemd scripts for opal-prd |
| - pflash can now use the /dev/mtd device to access BMC flash rather than |
| accessing it directly. It is *important* that you use --mtd if your |
| BMC may otherwise know how to interact with its own flash. |
| - support for Micron N25Q256Ax and N25Qx256Ax NOR flash. |
| - support for Winbond W25Q256BV NOR flash |
| - support for an emulated ("fake") RTC clock, useful in simulators |
| and during bringup |
| - Explicit 1:1 mapping in ranges properties have been added to PCI |
| bridges. This allows a neat trick with offb and VGA ports that should |
| probably not be told to young children. |
| - Added support to read the V2 format of the OCC-OPAL memory region, |
| which supports Workload Optimized Frequency (WOF) |
| |
| Changes in behavior |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| - Assigning OPAL IDs to PHBs is now fixed and based on the chip id and PHB |
| index on that chip. On POWER7, we continue to use allocated numbers. |
| - We now query the BMC for BT capabilities rather than making assumptions |
| |
| Removed support |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| - p5ioc2 is no longer supported. |
| This affects a grand total of two POWER7 systems in the world. |
| |
| **NOTE**: It is planned that skiboot-5.2 will be the last release supporting |
| POWER7 machines. |
| |
| Bugs fixed |
| ^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| - PHB3: Fix unexpected ER (all) on errinjct by PCI config |
| - hw/bt: timeout messages when BT interface isn't functional |
| - On Habanero, Slot3 should have been "Slot 3". |
| - We now completely flush the console buffer before power down and reboot |
| - For chips with ibm,occ-functional-state set to false, we don't wait |
| for the OCC to start. This caused needless delay in booting on simulators |
| which did not simulate OCCs. |
| - Change OCC reset order to always reset slave OCCs first. |
| - slw: Remove overwrites for EX_PM_CORE_ECO_VRET and EX_PM_CORE_PFET_VRET |
| (these were already initialized in hostboot) |
| - p8-i2c: send stop bit on timeouts. |
| Some devices can otherwise leave the bus in a held state. |
| |
| Other improvements |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
| |
| - many fixes of compiler and static analysis warnings |
| - increased unit test coverage |
| - Unit test of "boot debian jessie installer" |
| - ability to plug in other simulators to run existing tests (e.g. simulator for |
| non pegasus p8) |
| - Support using (patched) Qemu with PowerNV platform support for running |
| unit tests. |
| - increased support for running with sparse |
| - We now build with -fstack-protector-strong if supported by the compiler |
| - We now build with -Werror for -Wformat |
| - pflash is now built as part of travis-ci and for Coverity Scan. |
| - There is now a RPM SPEC file that can be used as the basis for packaging |
| skiboot and associated utilities. |
| |
| Contributors |
| ------------ |
| |
| We have had a number of improvements in workflow over skiboot-5.1.0. Looking |
| back, we have roughly the same number of changesets (372 for 5.1.0, 334 for |
| 5.2.0-rc1 - even closer for 5.1.0-beta1) which indicates a relatively stable |
| rate of development. |
| |
| Complete statistics are included below (generated by gitdm), but I'd like to |
| draw attention to a couple of stats: |
| |
| ======== ====== ======= ======= ====== ======== |
| Release csets Ack Reviews Tested Reported |
| ======== ====== ======= ======= ====== ======== |
| 5.0 329 15 20 1 0 |
| 5.1 372 13 38 1 4 |
| 5.2-rc1 334 20 34 6 11 |
| ======== ====== ======= ======= ====== ======== |
| |
| Overall, it looks like we're on the right trajectory for increasing the number |
| of eyeballs looking at code before it heads in tree, especially around testing. |
| Largely, this increase in Tested-by can be attributed to encouraging the |
| existing test teams to start commenting on the patches themselves. |
| |
| Anyway, here's the full stats from skiboot 5.1.0 to 5.2.0-rc1: |
| |
| Processed 334 csets from 27 developers |
| 2 employers found |
| A total of 46172 lines added, 23274 removed (delta 22898) |
| |
| Developers with the most changesets |
| |
| ========================== =========== |
| ========================== =========== |
| Stewart Smith 146 (43.7%) |
| Cyril Bur 52 (15.6%) |
| Benjamin Herrenschmidt 15 (4.5%) |
| Joel Stanley 12 (3.6%) |
| Gavin Shan 12 (3.6%) |
| Alistair Popple 10 (3.0%) |
| Vasant Hegde 10 (3.0%) |
| Michael Neuling 10 (3.0%) |
| Russell Currey 9 (2.7%) |
| Cédric Le Goater 8 (2.4%) |
| Jeremy Kerr 8 (2.4%) |
| Samuel Mendoza-Jonas 6 (1.8%) |
| Neelesh Gupta 6 (1.8%) |
| Shilpasri G Bhat 4 (1.2%) |
| Oliver O'Halloran 4 (1.2%) |
| Mahesh Salgaonkar 4 (1.2%) |
| Vipin K Parashar 3 (0.9%) |
| Daniel Axtens 3 (0.9%) |
| Andrew Donnellan 2 (0.6%) |
| Philippe Bergheaud 2 (0.6%) |
| Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 2 (0.6%) |
| Vaibhav Jain 1 (0.3%) |
| Sam Mendoza-Jonas 1 (0.3%) |
| Adriana Kobylak 1 (0.3%) |
| Shreyas B. Prabhu 1 (0.3%) |
| Vaidyanathan Srinivasan 1 (0.3%) |
| Ian Munsie 1 (0.3%) |
| ========================== =========== |
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| Developers with the most changed lines |
| |
| |
| ========================== ============= |
| ========================== ============= |
| Stewart Smith 19533 (39.4%) |
| Oliver O'Halloran 17920 (36.1%) |
| Alistair Popple 3285 (6.6%) |
| Daniel Axtens 2154 (4.3%) |
| Cyril Bur 2028 (4.1%) |
| Benjamin Herrenschmidt 941 (1.9%) |
| Neelesh Gupta 434 (0.9%) |
| Gavin Shan 294 (0.6%) |
| Russell Currey 261 (0.5%) |
| Vasant Hegde 245 (0.5%) |
| Cédric Le Goater 209 (0.4%) |
| Vipin K Parashar 155 (0.3%) |
| Shilpasri G Bhat 153 (0.3%) |
| Joel Stanley 140 (0.3%) |
| Vaidyanathan Srinivasan 135 (0.3%) |
| Michael Neuling 111 (0.2%) |
| Samuel Mendoza-Jonas 81 (0.2%) |
| Jeremy Kerr 60 (0.1%) |
| Mahesh Salgaonkar 58 (0.1%) |
| Vaibhav Jain 50 (0.1%) |
| Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 43 (0.1%) |
| Shreyas B. Prabhu 17 (0.0%) |
| Sam Mendoza-Jonas 12 (0.0%) |
| Andrew Donnellan 10 (0.0%) |
| Ian Munsie 8 (0.0%) |
| Philippe Bergheaud 6 (0.0%) |
| Adriana Kobylak 6 (0.0%) |
| ========================== ============= |
| |
| Developers with the most lines removed |
| |
| ========================= ============= |
| ========================= ============= |
| Daniel Axtens 2149 (9.2%) |
| Shreyas B. Prabhu 17 (0.1%) |
| Andrew Donnellan 9 (0.0%) |
| Vipin K Parashar 2 (0.0%) |
| ========================= ============= |
| |
| Developers with the most signoffs (total 190) |
| |
| ========================= ============= |
| ========================= ============= |
| Stewart Smith 188 (98.9%) |
| Gavin Shan 1 (0.5%) |
| Neelesh Gupta 1 (0.5%) |
| ========================= ============= |
| |
| Developers with the most reviews (total 34) |
| |
| ========================= ============= |
| ========================= ============= |
| Patrick Williams 5 (14.7%) |
| Joel Stanley 5 (14.7%) |
| Cédric Le Goater 5 (14.7%) |
| Vasant Hegde 4 (11.8%) |
| Alistair Popple 4 (11.8%) |
| Sam Mendoza-Jonas 3 (8.8%) |
| Samuel Mendoza-Jonas 3 (8.8%) |
| Andrew Donnellan 2 (5.9%) |
| Cyril Bur 2 (5.9%) |
| Vaibhav Jain 1 (2.9%) |
| ========================= ============= |
| |
| Developers with the most test credits (total 6) |
| |
| ========================= ============= |
| ========================= ============= |
| Vipin K Parashar 3 (50.0%) |
| Vaibhav Jain 2 (33.3%) |
| Gajendra B Bandhu1 1 (16.7%) |
| ========================= ============= |
| |
| Developers who gave the most tested-by credits (total 6) |
| |
| =========================== ============= |
| =========================== ============= |
| Gavin Shan 2 (33.3%) |
| Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 2 (33.3%) |
| Alistair Popple 1 (16.7%) |
| Stewart Smith 1 (16.7%) |
| =========================== ============= |
| |
| Developers with the most report credits (total 11) |
| |
| ========================= ============= |
| ========================= ============= |
| Vaibhav Jain 2 (18.2%) |
| Paul Nguyen 2 (18.2%) |
| Alistair Popple 1 (9.1%) |
| Cédric Le Goater 1 (9.1%) |
| Aneesh Kumar K.V 1 (9.1%) |
| Dionysius d. Bell 1 (9.1%) |
| Pradeep Ramanna 1 (9.1%) |
| John Walthour 1 (9.1%) |
| Benjamin Herrenschmidt 1 (9.1%) |
| ========================= ============= |
| |
| Developers who gave the most report credits (total 11) |
| |
| ========================= ============= |
| ========================= ============= |
| Gavin Shan 6 (54.5%) |
| Stewart Smith 3 (27.3%) |
| Samuel Mendoza-Jonas 1 (9.1%) |
| Shilpasri G Bhat 1 (9.1%) |
| ========================= ============= |
