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.. _skiboot-5.5.0-rc3:
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skiboot-5.5.0-rc3
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=================
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skiboot-5.5.0-rc3 was released on Wednesday April 5th 2017. It is the third
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release candidate of skiboot 5.5, which will become the new stable release
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of skiboot following the 5.4 release, first released November 11th 2016.
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skiboot-5.5.0-rc3 contains all bug fixes as of :ref:`skiboot-5.4.3`
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and :ref:`skiboot-5.1.19` (the currently maintained stable releases).
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For how the skiboot stable releases work, see :ref:`stable-rules` for details.
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The current plan is to cut the final 5.5.0 by April 8th, with skiboot 5.5.0
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being for all POWER8 and POWER9 platforms in op-build v1.16 (Due April 12th).
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This is a short cycle as this release is mainly targetted towards POWER9
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bringup efforts.
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Following skiboot-5.5.0, we will move to a regular six week release cycle,
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similar to op-build, but slightly offset to allow for a short stabilisation
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period. Expected release dates and contents are tracked using GitHub milestone
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and issues: https://github.com/open-power/skiboot/milestones
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Over :ref:`skiboot-5.5.0-rc2`, we have the following changes:
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- xive: Fix setting of remote NVT VSD
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This fixes a checkstop when using my XIVE exploitation mode on some multi-chip machines.
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- core/init: Use '_' as separator in names of "exports" properties
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The names of the properties under /ibm,opal/firmware/exports are used
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directly by Linux to create files in sysfs. To remain consistent with
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the existing naming of OPAL sysfs files, use '_' as the separator.
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In particular for the symbol map which is already exported separately,
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it's cleaner for the two files to have the same name, eg: ::
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/sys/firmware/opal/exports/symbol_map
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/sys/firmware/opal/symbol_map
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- hdata: fix reservation size
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The hostboot reserved ranges are [start, end] pairs rather than
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[start, end) so we need to stick a +1 in there to calculate the
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size properly.
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- hdat: Add model-name property for OpenPower system
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- hdat: Read description from ibm, vpd binary blob
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- hdat: Populate model property with 'Unknown' in error path
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