1skiboot-5.2.0-rc2
2=================
3
4skiboot-5.2.0-rc2 was released on Wednesday March 9th, 2016.
5
6skiboot-5.2.0-rc2 is the second release candidate of skiboot 5.2, which will
7become the new stable release of skiboot following the 5.1 release, first
8released August 17th, 2015.
9
10skiboot-5.2.0-rc2 contains all bug fixes as of skiboot-5.1.14.
11
12This is the second release that will follow the (now documented) Skiboot
13stable rules - see :ref:`stable-rules`.
14
15The current plan is to release skiboot-5.2.0 mid-March 2016, with a focus on
16bug fixing for future 5.2.0-rc releases (if any - I hope this will be the last)
17
18Over skiboot-5.2.0-rc1, we have the following changes:
19
20New platform!
21^^^^^^^^^^^^^
22
23- Add Barreleye platform
24
25Generic
26^^^^^^^
27
28- hw/p8-i2c: Speed up SMBUS_WRITE
29- Fix early backtraces
30
31FSP Platforms
32^^^^^^^^^^^^^
33
34- fsp-sensor: rework device tree for sensors
35- platforms/firenze: Fix I2C clock source frequency
36
37Simics simulator
38^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
39
40- Enable Simics UART console
41
42Mambo simulator
43^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
44
45- platforms/mambo: Add terminate callback
46
47  - fix hang in multi-threaded mambo
48  - add multithreaded mambo tests
49
50IPMI
51^^^^
52
53- hw/ipmi: fix event data 1 for System Firmware Progress sensor
54- ipmi: Log exact NetFn value in OPAL logs
55
56AST BMC based platforms
57^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
58
59- hw/bt: allow BT driver to use different buffer size
60
61opal-prd utility
62^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
63
64- opal-prd: Add debug output for firmware-driven OCC events
65    We indicate when we have a user-driven event, so add corresponding
66    outputs for firmware-driven ones too.
67
68getscom utility
69^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
70
71- Add Naples chip support
72
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