From e05b3fb62d44e840a2818afc738ce3bc7afea092 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stewart Smith Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 15:44:47 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] skiboot 6.0.2 release notes Signed-off-by: Stewart Smith --- doc/release-notes/skiboot-6.0.2.rst | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) create mode 100644 doc/release-notes/skiboot-6.0.2.rst diff --git a/doc/release-notes/skiboot-6.0.2.rst b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-6.0.2.rst new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4012bc17e787 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/release-notes/skiboot-6.0.2.rst @@ -0,0 +1,23 @@ +.. _skiboot-6.0.2: + +============= +skiboot-6.0.2 +============= + +skiboot 6.0.2 was released on Friday May 18th, 2018. It replaces +:ref:`skiboot-6.0.1` as the current stable release in the 6.0.x series. + +It is recommended that 6.0.2 be used instead of any previous 6.0.x version. + +Over :ref:`skiboot-6.0.1`, we one bug fix: + +- cpu: Clear PCR SPR in opal_reinit_cpus() + + Currently if Linux boots with a non-zero PCR, things can go bad where + some early userspace programs can take illegal instructions. This is + being fixed in Linux, but in the mean time, we should cleanup in + skiboot also. + + This could exhibit itself as petitboot getting killed with SIGILL and + no boot devices showing up, but only in a situation where you've done + a kdump from a kernel running a p8 compat guest