skiboot-7.0

skiboot v7.0 was released on Tuesday Oct 26th 2021. It is the first release of skiboot 7.0 series, which becomes the new stable release following the skiboot-6.8 release, first released Friday May 28th 2021.

This release contains all required feature to support POWER10 systems. This shoule be considered as minimal skiboot version required for POWER10 systems.

New Features

POWER10

Below is the list of major feature apart from base POWER10 enablement related changes.

  • Denali and rainier platform support

  • XIVE2 interrupt controller support

  • PHB5 support

  • Support for OpenCAPI Persistent Memory devices

  • Power management stop states and PState (OCC) support