[coreboot] coreboot 4.5 release notes

[Martin Roth]

I'm working on the release notes - it's a lengthy process.

On Thu, Oct 20, 2016 at 1:35 PM, Riko Ho <antonius.riko at gmail.com> wrote:

> Congratulation,
>
> Does qemu support i946 and ICH 7 simulation ?
> I have *.bin file, can I run on Qemu to see how it runs ? Or it must be
> physically run and tap via SerialICE ?
>
> Cheers
>
> On 21/10/2016 2:21 AM, Mike Banon wrote:
>
>> Coreboot 4.5 has been released quietly two days ago
>> (http://www.coreboot.org/downloads.html) , but we haven't seen the
>> release notes yet - either at http://blogs.coreboot.org/ or
>> elsewhere...
>>
>> According to http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards page, so
>> far the following systems have been successfully tested with this
>> release:
>>
>> * Lenovo G505S - http://www.coreboot.org/Suppor
>> ted_Motherboards#lenovo.2Fg505s
>> * Lenovo X201 - http://www.coreboot.org/Suppor
>> ted_Motherboards#lenovo.2Fx201
>> * Lenovo X220 - http://www.coreboot.org/Suppor
>> ted_Motherboards#lenovo.2Fx220
>> * ASUS KFSN4-DRE -
>> http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#asus.2Fkfsn4-dre
>> * ASUS KGPE-D16 - http://www.coreboot.org/Suppor
>> ted_Motherboards#asus.2Fkgpe-d16
>> * GIGABYTE GA-B75M-D3V -
>> http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#gigabyte.2Fga-b75m-d3v
>> * ASROCK E350M1 - http://www.coreboot.org/Suppor
>> ted_Motherboards#asrock.2Fe350m1
>> * Google ( Acer ) C720 Chromebook -
>> http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#google.2Fpeppy
>> * Emulation QEMU x86 q35/ich9 -
>> http://www.coreboot.org/Supported_Motherboards#emulation.2Fqemu-q35
>>
>> These successful test reports have been submitted after the quoted
>> Martin Roth's message below. Cheers!
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 6:44 PM, Martin Roth <gaumless at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Everyone,
>>>   We're coming up on our next coreboot release.  We'd like to get the
>>> release done around the middle of October, but if there are issues in
>>> flight, we can delay it a bit.  The release will absolutely happen before
>>> end of the month.
>>>
>>> If anyone is working on major changes that will affect all of coreboot,
>>> I'd
>>> request that they hold off until after the release so we have time to
>>> stabilize before the release.
>>>
>>> Please test platforms that you're interested in now, and as we get closer
>>> to the release.  I'll create a list of validated platforms to include in
>>> the release notes, so if you want your favorite platform listed as having
>>> been tested in the release notes, please test it now, and post it to the
>>> board_status tracker.  I'll release updated documentation for running
>>> board_status in the next few days.
>>>
>>> We've got a number of outstanding issues right now, both on the coreboot
>>> issue tracker, and in coverity.  Please take a moment to look over these
>>> issues and if there are any in an area that you think you can fix, please
>>> take a swing at them.
>>>
>>>
>
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