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diff --git a/roms/skiboot/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.1.8.rst b/roms/skiboot/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.1.8.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c856ba902 --- /dev/null +++ b/roms/skiboot/doc/release-notes/skiboot-5.1.8.rst @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +skiboot-5.1.8 +------------- + +skiboot-5.1.8 was released on October 19th, 2015. + +skiboot-5.1.8 is the 9th stable release of 5.1, it follows skiboot-5.1.7 +(which was released October 13th, 2015). + +Skiboot 5.1.8 contains all fixes from skiboot-5.1.7 and is a minor bug +fix release, with a single fix for recovery from a (rare) error. + +Over skiboot-5.1.7, we have the following change: + +- opal/hmi: Fix a soft lockup issue on Hypervisor Maintenance Interrupt + for certain timebase errors. + + We also introduce a timeout to handle the worst situation where all other + threads are badly stuck without setting a cleanup done bit. Under such + situation timeout will help to avoid soft lockups and report failure to + kernel. |