| skiboot-5.2.4 |
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| skiboot-5.2.4 was released on Tuesday July 12th, 2016. |
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| This is the 5th stable release of skiboot 5.2, the new stable release of |
| skiboot (first release with 5.2.0 on March 16th 2016). |
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| Skiboot 5.2.4 replaces skiboot-5.2.3 as the current stable version, which was |
| released on June 30th 2016. Over skiboot-5.2.3, skiboot 5.2.4 contains bug |
| fixes to make skiboot more resilient to errors in the XSCOM engine and some |
| build improvements for the pflash utility. |
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| skiboot-5.2.4 contains all bug fixes as of skiboot-5.1.16. |
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| This is the second release that will follow the (now documented) Skiboot |
| stable rules - see :ref:`stable-rules`. |
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| Over skiboot-5.2.3, the following fixes are included: |
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| All platforms |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| - Make the XSCOM engine code more resilient to errors: |
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| - hw/xscom: Reset XSCOM engine after querying sleeping core FIR |
| - hw/xscom: Reset XSCOM engine after finite number of retries when busy |
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| Userspace utilities |
| ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
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| - pflash build improvements |
