Release Notes for OpenPower Firmware v2.3-rc2¶
op-build v2.3-rc2 was released on Friday April 5th, 2019. It will become the new stable release of op-build, following on from v2.2, first released on March 9th, 2019.
The op-build v2.3 release cycle is a uniquely shorter one as we’ve been working on getting ready to have a more reliably predictable release schedule going for future releases.
op-build v2.3-rc2 contains all the fixes as of op-build v2.0.15, and we expect to continue to do stable 2.0.y releases of v2.0 into the forseeable future.
Please note that this is a RELEASE CANDIDATE and not the final v2.3 release. We expect to do a final v2.3 tagged release early April 2019. Please test this release candidate heavily!
Known Bugs¶
We have one known bug (carried over from rc1) that are currently release blockers for the final v2.3.
- There exists a bug where Control-C behaviour in the petitboot shell has changed, which may cause some test scripts to get confused.
Fixed Bugs¶
One of the two bugs listed in “known bugs” for rc1 has been fixed:
- There exists a bug where boot devices may not show up in petitboot until “Rescan Devices” is selected.
Updated Packages¶
| Package | Old Version | New Version | Platforms |
|---|---|---|---|
| hcode | hw032919a.940 | hw040319a.940 | witherspoon, p9dsu, zaius, romulus |
| hostboot | ca03643dd893 | e5622fb032dc | witherspoon, p9dsu, zaius, romulus |
| hostboot-p8 | c2074ad87972 | dc218d94c57b9 | habanero, garrison, barreleye, firestone, palmetto, vesnin |
| linux | 4.19.30 | 5.0.5 | witherspoon, p9dsu, zaius, habanero, firenze, garrison, barreleye, pseries, opal, firestone, palmetto, vesnin, zz, romulus |
| linux-headers | 4.19.30 | 5.0.5 | witherspoon, p9dsu, zaius, habanero, firenze, garrison, barreleye, pseries, opal, firestone, palmetto, vesnin, zz, romulus |
| petitboot | v1.10.2 | v1.10.3 | witherspoon, p9dsu, zaius, habanero, firenze, garrison, barreleye, pseries, opal, firestone, palmetto, vesnin, zz, romulus |
Package: hcode¶
Patches¶
Commits¶
hostboot (2):
- f89e3fc16469 Release tag information updated for hw040219a.940
- 2e3a283588c1 Release tag information updated for hw040319a.940
Package: hostboot¶
Patches¶
Commits¶
Andre A. Marin (1):
- ee76c2ca5927 Fix c_str and pos DIMM specialization
Andre Marin (1):
- 8daf280f7d24 Fix true_type and false_ type typdef with integral_constant
Caleb Palmer (1):
- f7937e802748 PRD: Fix isEccSp capture data check
Chen Du (1):
- 5da79e14c316 Get ring override failing
Christian Geddes (4):
- 9882fe3c773b Set REL_POS to 0 on all DIMM target in simics Axone
- 215eaa2074f5 Stop overwriting OCMB vpd info in standalone and handle DDIMM modules
- 9fd0af32313c Set ATTR_MSS_INTERLEAVE_ENABLE to be 0xAF to allow all grouping sizes
- 16378af2527d Compile Explorer MSS libs in our istepsmss lib
Corey Swenson (2):
- 201a39f54be6 Add part callout for the Backup Power Module
- e5622fb032dc Insufficient Resources check needs to handle NVDIMM logic
Dan Crowell (1):
- 54178321414b Constants for future DIMMs
Ilya Smirnov (1):
- 25c1b412b86a Process Core and EQ Gard Records in MPIPL Path
Jennifer A. Stofer (1):
- 12b139b58521 Revert “P9 Xbus/DMI CM Workaround”
Mike Baiocchi (1):
- 1b5381224824 Cleanup UCD Update Algorithm Code
Murulidhar Nataraju (1):
- ed1208121086 Istep 18 - MPIPL on OPAL System update
Nick Bofferding (1):
- ec86a5683941 Decrease WOFDATA partition by 1 MB until HBI space can be reduced
Package: petitboot¶
Patches¶
Commits¶
Samuel Mendoza-Jonas (6):
- df1a234c15fb lib/system: Add cryptsetup utility
- ba8144f917f5 lib/process: Add option to pipe to process stdin
- 5f8fa2c151b8 lib: Add AUTH_MSG_DECRYPT
- f583f0cf35fc discover: Recognise and open LUKS encrypted partitions
- 1ad18bf128c4 ui/ncurses: Add prompt for LUKS device password
- 1cd261748c00 utils/pb-console: Use -m to run shell in own process group