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skiboot-5.5.0 was released on Friday April 7th 2017. It is the new stable
release of skiboot, taking over from the 5.4 release, first released on
November 11th 2016.

skiboot-5.5.0 contains all bug fixes as of :ref:skiboot-5.4.3
and :ref:skiboot-5.1.19 (the currently maintained stable releases).

For how the skiboot stable releases work, see :ref:stable-rules for details.

This release is a good level set of POWER9 support for bringup activities.
If you are doing bringup, it is strongly suggested you continue to follow
skiboot master.

After skiboot 5.5.0, we 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

Changes in skiboot-5.5.0

See changes in the release candidates:

  • :ref:skiboot-5.5.0-rc1
  • :ref:skiboot-5.5.0-rc2
  • :ref:skiboot-5.5.0-rc3

Changes since skiboot-5.5.0-rc3

  • hdat: parse processor attached i2c devices

    Adds basic parsing for i2c devices that are attached to the processor
    I2C interfaces. This is mainly VPD SEEPROMs.

  • libflash/blocklevel: Add blocklevel_smart_erase()

    With recent changes to flash drivers in linux not all erase blocks are
    4K anymore. While most level of the pflash/gard tool stacks were written
    to not mind, it turns out there are bugs which means not 4K erase block
    backing stores aren't handled all that well. Part of the problem is the
    FFS layout that is 4K aligned and with larger block sizes pflash and the
    gard tool don't check if their erase commands are erase block aligned -
    which they are usually not with 64K erase blocks.

    This patch aims to add common functionality to blocklevel so that (at
    least) pflash and the gard tool don't need to worry about the problem
    anymore.

  • external/pflash: Use blocklevel_smart_erase()

  • external/gard: Use blocklevel_smart_erase()

  • libstb/create-container: Add full container build and sign with imprint keys

    This adds support for writing all the public key and signature fields to the
    container header, and for dumping the prefix and software headers so they may
    may be signed, and for signing those headers with the imprint keys.

  • asm: do not set SDR1 on POWER9. This register does not exist in ISAv3.

Testing:

  • mambo: Allow setting the Linux command line from the environment

    For automated testing it's helpful to be able to set the Linux command
    line via an environment variable.

  • mambo: Add util function for breaking on console output

Contributors

Processed 408 csets from 31 developers

3 employers found

A total of 24073 lines added, 16759 removed (delta 7314)

Extending the analysis done for the last few releases, we can see our trends
in code review across versions:

======== ====== ======= ======= ====== ========
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
5.3-rc1 302 36 53 4 5
5.4.0 361 16 28 1 9
5.5.0 408 11 48 14 10
======== ====== ======= ======= ====== ========

I am absolutely thrilled as to the uptick of reviews and tested-by occuring
over our 5.4.0 release. Although we are not yet back up to 5.3 era levels for
review, we're much closer. For tested-by, we've set a new record, which is
excellent!

Developers with the most changesets
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
========================== === =======
Developer # %
========================== === =======
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 139 (34.1%)
Stewart Smith 60 (14.7%)
Oliver O'Halloran 54 (13.2%)
Gavin Shan 23 (5.6%)
Michael Neuling 20 (4.9%)
Vasant Hegde 15 (3.7%)
Cyril Bur 15 (3.7%)
Claudio Carvalho 14 (3.4%)
Andrew Donnellan 11 (2.7%)
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 9 (2.2%)
Alistair Popple 6 (1.5%)
Nicholas Piggin 5 (1.2%)
Cédric Le Goater 5 (1.2%)
Pridhiviraj Paidipeddi 5 (1.2%)
Michael Ellerman 4 (1.0%)
Shilpasri G Bhat 4 (1.0%)
Russell Currey 3 (0.7%)
Jack Miller 2 (0.5%)
Chris Smart 2 (0.5%)
Dave Heller 1 (0.2%)
Akshay Adiga 1 (0.2%)
Reza Arbab 1 (0.2%)
Matt Brown 1 (0.2%)
Frederic Barrat 1 (0.2%)
Hank Chang 1 (0.2%)
Willie Liauw 1 (0.2%)
Werner Fischer 1 (0.2%)
Jeremy Kerr 1 (0.2%)
Patrick Williams 1 (0.2%)
Joel Stanley 1 (0.2%)
Alexey Kardashevskiy 1 (0.2%)
========================== === =======

Developers with the most changed lines
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

========================== ===== =======
Developer # %
========================== ===== =======
Oliver O'Halloran 18278 (48.5%)
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 5512 (14.6%)
Cyril Bur 3184 (8.4%)
Alistair Popple 3102 (8.2%)
Stewart Smith 2757 (7.3%)
Gavin Shan 802 (2.1%)
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 544 (1.4%)
Claudio Carvalho 489 (1.3%)
Dave Heller 425 (1.1%)
Willie Liauw 361 (1.0%)
Andrew Donnellan 315 (0.8%)
Michael Neuling 290 (0.8%)
Vasant Hegde 253 (0.7%)
Shilpasri G Bhat 228 (0.6%)
Nicholas Piggin 222 (0.6%)
Reza Arbab 198 (0.5%)
Russell Currey 158 (0.4%)
Jack Miller 127 (0.3%)
Cédric Le Goater 126 (0.3%)
Chris Smart 95 (0.3%)
Akshay Adiga 57 (0.2%)
Hank Chang 56 (0.1%)
Pridhiviraj Paidipeddi 47 (0.1%)
Michael Ellerman 29 (0.1%)
Matt Brown 29 (0.1%)
Alexey Kardashevskiy 2 (0.0%)
Frederic Barrat 1 (0.0%)
Werner Fischer 1 (0.0%)
Jeremy Kerr 1 (0.0%)
Patrick Williams 1 (0.0%)
Joel Stanley 1 (0.0%)
========================== ===== =======

Developers with the most lines removed
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
========================== ===== =======
Developer # %
========================== ===== =======
Oliver O'Halloran 8516 (50.8%)
Werner Fischer 1 (0.0%)
========================== ===== =======

Developers with the most signoffs
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Total: 364

======================== ===== =======
Developer # %
======================== ===== =======
Stewart Smith 348 (95.6%)
Michael Neuling 6 (1.6%)
Oliver O'Halloran 3 (0.8%)
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 2 (0.5%)
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan 1 (0.3%)
Hank Chang 1 (0.3%)
Jack Miller 1 (0.3%)
Gavin Shan 1 (0.3%)
Alistair Popple 1 (0.3%)
======================== ===== =======

Developers with the most reviews
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Total 50

======================== ===== =======
Developer # %
======================== ===== =======
Vasant Hegde 14 (28.0%)
Andrew Donnellan 9 (18.0%)
Russell Currey 6 (12.0%)
Cédric Le Goater 5 (10.0%)
Oliver O'Halloran 4 (8.0%)
Vaidyanathan Srinivasan 3 (6.0%)
Gavin Shan 3 (6.0%)
Alistair Popple 2 (4.0%)
Frederic Barrat 2 (4.0%)
Mahesh Salgaonkar 1 (2.0%)
Cyril Bur 1 (2.0%)
======================== ===== =======

Developers with the most test credits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Total 14

======================== ===== =======
Developer # %
======================== ===== =======
Willie Liauw 4 (28.6%)
Mark E Schreiter 3 (21.4%)
Claudio Carvalho 3 (21.4%)
Gavin Shan 1 (7.1%)
Michael Neuling 1 (7.1%)
Pridhiviraj Paidipeddi 1 (7.1%)
Chris Smart 1 (7.1%)
======================== ===== =======

Developers who gave the most tested-by credits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Total 14

========================== === =======
Developer # %
========================== === =======
Gavin Shan 7 (50.0%)
Stewart Smith 4 (28.6%)
Chris Smart 1 (7.1%)
Oliver O'Halloran 1 (7.1%)
Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli 1 (7.1%)
========================== === =======

Developers with the most report credits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Total 10

============================ = =======
Developer # %
============================ = =======
Hank Chang 4 (40.0%)
Mark E Schreiter 3 (30.0%)
Guilherme G. Piccoli 1 (10.0%)
Colin Ian King 1 (10.0%)
Pradipta Ghosh 1 (10.0%)
============================ = =======

Developers who gave the most report credits
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Total 10

============================ = =======
Developer # %
============================ = =======
Gavin Shan 8 (80.0%)
Andrew Donnellan 1 (10.0%)
Jeremy Kerr 1 (10.0%)
============================ = =======

Top changeset contributors by employer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

========================== === =======
Employer # %
========================== === =======
IBM 406 (99.5%)
SuperMicro 1 (0.2%)
Thomas-Krenn AG 1 (0.2%)
========================== === =======

Top lines changed by employer
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

========================= ===== =======
Employer # %
========================= ===== =======
IBM 37329 (99.0%)
SuperMicro 361 (1.0%)
Thomas-Krenn AG 1 (0.0%)
========================= ===== =======

Employers with the most signoffs
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Total 364

========================= ==== =======
Employer # %
========================= ==== =======
IBM 363 (99.7%)
(Unknown) 1 (0.3%)
========================= ==== =======

Employers with the most hackers
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Total 31

========================= ==== =======
Employer # %
========================= ==== =======
IBM 29 (93.5%)
Thomas-Krenn AG 1 (3.2%)
SuperMicro 1 (3.2%)
========================= ==== =======

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