Documentation/releases: Update 4.16 release notes

Update details for upcoming 4.16 release

Change-Id: Iea88b3a4025ae6a57524e08bf5ecef984810baeb
Signed-off-by: Jason Glenesk <jason.glenesk@amd.corp-partner.google.com>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/62302
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>
Reviewed-by: Martin Roth <martinroth@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <paulepanter@mailbox.org>

1 files changed, 272 insertions, 9 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.16-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.16-relnotes.md
index 55317a4226d3..0d83acad27c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.16-relnotes.md
+++ b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.16-relnotes.md
@@ -1,17 +1,75 @@
-Upcoming release - coreboot 4.16
+coreboot 4.16
 ================================
 
-The 4.16 release is planned for February, 2022.
+The 4.16 release is planned for February 25th, 2022.
 
-We are increasing the frequency of releases in order to enable others to release quarterly on
-a fresher version of coreboot.
+Since 4.15 there have been more than 1730 new commits by more than 171 developers.
+Of these, over 35 contributed to coreboot for the first time.
 
-Update this document with changes that should be in the release notes.
+Welcome to the project!
 
-* Please use Markdown.
-* See the past few release notes for the general format.
-* The chip and board additions and removals will be updated right
-  before the release, so those do not need to be added.
+Thank you to all the developers who continue to make coreboot the
+great open source firmware project that it is.
+
+New mainboards:
+-------------------
+* Acer Aspire VN7-572G
+* AMD Chausie
+* ASROCK H77 Pro4-M
+* ASUS P8Z77-M
+* Emulation QEMU power9
+* Google ->  Agah
+* Google ->  Anahera4ES
+* Google ->  Banshee
+* Google ->  Beadrix
+* Google ->  Brya4ES
+* Google ->  Crota
+* Google ->  Dojo
+* Google ->  Gimble4ES
+* Google ->  Herobrine_Rev0
+* Google ->  Kingler
+* Google ->  Kinox
+* Google ->  Krabby
+* Google ->  Moli
+* Google ->  Nereid
+* Google ->  Nivviks
+* Google ->  Primus4ES
+* Google ->  Redrix4ES
+* Google ->  Skyrim
+* Google ->  Taeko4ES
+* Google ->  Taniks
+* Google ->  Vell
+* Google ->  Volmar
+* Intel Alderlake-N RVP
+* Prodrive Atlas
+* Star Labs Star Labs StarBook Mk V (i3-1115G4 and i7-1165G7)
+* System76 gaze16 3050
+* System76 gaze16 3060
+* System76 gaze16 3060-b
+
+Removed mainboards:
+-------------------
+* Google ->  Corsola
+* Google ->  Nasher
+* Google ->  Stryke
+
+Added processors:
+-------------------
+* src/cpu/power9
+
+
+Submodule Updates
+-----------------
+/3rdparty/amd_blobs (6 commits)
+/3rdparty/arm-trusted-firmware (965 commits)
+/3rdparty/blobs (30 commits)
+/3rdparty/chromeec (2212 commits)
+/3rdparty/intel-microcode (1 commits)
+/3rdparty/qc_blobs (13 commits)
+/3rdparty/vboot (44 commits)
+
+Deprecations and incompatible changes
+-------------------------------------
 
 Significant changes
 -------------------
@@ -19,9 +77,214 @@ Significant changes
 ### Add significant changes here
 
 ### Option to disable Intel Management Engine
+
 Disable the Intel (Converged Security) Management Engine ((CS)ME) via HECI based
 on Intel Core processors from Skylake to Alder Lake. State is set based on a
 CMOS value of `me_state`. A value of `0` will result in a (CS)ME state of `0`
 (working) and value of `1` will result in a (CS)ME state of `3` (disabled). For
 an example CMOS layout and more info, see
 [cse.c](../../src/soc/intel/common/block/cse/cse.c).
+
+### Add [AMD] apcb_v3_edit tool
+
+apcb_v3_edit.py tool edits APCB V3 binaries. Specifically it will inject
+up to 16 SPDs into an existing APCB. The APCB must have a magic number
+at the top of each SPD slot.
+
+
+### Allow enable/disable ME via CMOS
+
+Add .enable method that will set the CSME state. The state is based on
+the new CMOS option me_state, with values of 0 and 1. The method is very
+stable when switching between different firmware platforms.
+
+This method should not be used in combination with USE_ME_CLEANER.
+
+State 1 will result in:
+ME: Current Working State   : 4
+ME: Current Operation State : 1
+ME: Current Operation Mode  : 3
+ME: Error Code              : 2
+
+State 0 will result in:
+ME: Current Working State   : 5
+ME: Current Operation State : 1
+ME: Current Operation Mode  : 0
+ME: Error Code              : 0
+
+### Move LAPIC configuration to MP init
+
+Implementation for setup_lapic() did two things -- call
+enable_lapic() and virtual_wire_mode_init().
+
+In PARALLEL_MP case enable_lapic() was redundant as it
+was already executed prior to initialize_cpu() call.
+For the !PARALLEL_MP case enable_lapic() is added to
+AP CPUs.
+
+### Add ANSI escape sequences for highlighting
+
+This patch adds ANSI escape sequences to highlight a log line based on
+its loglevel to the output of "interactive" consoles that are meant to
+be displayed on a terminal (e.g. UART). This should help make errors and
+warnings stand out better among the usual spew of debug messages. For
+users whose terminal or use case doesn't support these sequences for
+some reason (or who simply don't like them), they can be disabled with a
+Kconfig.
+
+While ANSI escape sequences can be used to add color, minicom (the
+presumably most common terminal emulator for UART endpoints?) doesn't
+support color output unless explicitly enabled (via -c command line
+flag), and other terminal emulators may have similar restrictions, so in
+an effort to make this as widely useful by default as possible I have
+chosen not to use color codes and implement this highlighting via
+bolding, underlining and inverting alone (which seem to go through in
+all cases). If desired, support for separate color highlighting could be
+added via Kconfig later.
+
+### Add cbmem_dump_console
+
+This function is similar to cbmem_dump_console_to_uart except it uses
+the normally configured consoles. A console_paused flag was added to
+prevent the cbmem console from writing to itself.
+
+### Add coreboot-configurator
+
+A simple GUI to change settings in coreboot's CBFS, via the nvramtool utility.
+
+### Update to NixOS 21.11
+
+Update configs so that they work with NixOS 21.11. Drop `iasl` package
+since it was replaced with `acpica-tools`.
+
+### Move to v2021.10
+
+Move to building the latest U-Boot.
+
+### Support systems with >128 cores
+
+Each time the spinlock is acquired a byte is decreased and then the
+sign of the byte is checked. If there are more than 128 cores the sign
+check will overflow. An easy fix is to increase the word size of the
+spinlock acquiring and releasing.
+
+### Add [samsung] sx9360 [proximity sensor] driver
+Add driver for setting up Semtech sx9360 SAR sensor.
+The driver is based on sx9310.c. The core of the driver is the same, but
+the bindings are slightly different.
+
+Registers are documented in the kernel tree:
+Documentation/devicetree/bindings/iio/proximity/semtech,sx9360.yaml
+[https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-iio/patch/20211213024057.3824985-4-gwendal@chromium.org/]
+
+### Add driver for Genesys Logic [SD Controller] GL9750
+
+The device is a PCIe Gen1 to SD 3.0 card reader controller to be
+used in the Chromebook. The datasheet name is GL9750S and the revision
+is 01.
+
+The patch disables ASPM L0s.
+
+### Add support for Realtek RT8125
+
+The Realtek RT8168 and RT8125 have a similar programming interface,
+therefore add the PCI device ID for the RT8125 into driver for support.
+
+### Add Fibocom 5G WWAN ACPI support
+
+Support PXSX._RST and PXSX.MRST._RST for warm and cold reset.
+PXSX._RST is invoked on driver removal.
+
+build dependency:
+  soc/intel/common/block/pcie/rtd3
+
+This driver will use the rtd3 methods for the same parent in the device
+tree. The rtd3 chip needs to be added on the same root port in the
+devicetree separately.
+
+### Fix bug in vr_config
+
+The `cpu_get_power_max()` function returns the TDP in milliwatts, but
+the vr_config code interprets the value in watts. Divide the value by
+1000 to fix this.
+
+This also fixes an integer overflow when `cpu_get_power_max()` returns
+a value greater than 65535 (UINT16_MAX).
+
+### Make mixed topo work
+
+When using a mixed memory topology with DDR4, it's not possible to boot
+when no DIMMs are installed, even though memory-down is available. This
+happens because the DIMM SPD length defaults to 256 when no DIMM SPD is
+available. Relax the length check when no DIMMs are present to overcome
+this problem.
+
+### Add FSP 2.3 support
+
+FSP 2.3 specification introduces following changes:
+
+1. FSP_INFO_HEADER changes
+   Updated SpecVersion from 0x22 to 0x23
+   Updated HeaderRevision from 5 to 6
+   Added ExtendedImageRevision
+   FSP_INFO_HEADER length changed to 0x50
+
+2. Added FSP_NON_VOLATILE_STORAGE_HOB2
+
+Following changes are implemented in the patch to support FSP 2.3:
+
+- Add Kconfig option
+- Update FSP build binary version info based on ExtendedImageRevision
+  field in header
+- New NV HOB related changes will be pushed as part of another patch
+
+### Join hash calculation for verification and measurement
+
+This patch moves the CBFS file measurement when CONFIG_TPM_MEASURED_BOOT
+is enabled from the lookup step into the code where a file is actually
+loaded or mapped from flash. This has the advantage that CBFS routines
+which just look up a file to inspect its metadata (e.g. cbfs_get_size())
+do not cause the file to be measured twice. It also removes the existing
+inefficiency that files are loaded twice when measurement is enabled
+(once to measure and then again when they are used). When CBFS
+verification is enabled and uses the same hash algorithm as the TPM, we
+are even able to only hash the file a single time and use the result for
+both purposes.
+
+### Skip FSP Notify APIs
+
+Alder Lake SoC deselects Kconfigs as below:
+- USE_FSP_NOTIFY_PHASE_READY_TO_BOOT
+- USE_FSP_NOTIFY_PHASE_END_OF_FIRMWARE
+to skip FSP notify APIs (Ready to boot and End of Firmware) and make
+use of native coreboot driver to perform SoC recommended operations
+prior booting to payload/OS.
+
+Additionally, created a helper function `heci_finalize()` to keep HECI
+related operations separated for easy guarding again config.
+
+TODO: coreboot native implementation to skip FSP notify phase API (post
+pci enumeration) is still WIP.
+
+### Add support for PCIe Resizable BARs
+
+Section 7.8.6 of the PCIe spec (rev 4) indicates that some devices can
+indicates support for "Resizable BARs" via a PCIe extended capability.
+
+When support this capability is indicated by the device, the size of
+each BAR is determined in a different way than the normal "moving
+bits" method. Instead, a pair of capability and control registers is
+allocated in config space for each BAR, which can be used to both
+indicate the different sizes the device is capable of supporting for
+the BAR (powers-of-2 number of bits from 20 [1 MiB] to 63 [8 EiB]), and
+to also inform the device of the size that the allocator actually
+reserved for the MMIO range.
+
+This patch adds a Kconfig for a mainboard to select if it knows that it
+will have a device that requires this support during PCI enumeration.
+If so, there is a corresponding Kconfig to indicate the maximum number
+of bits of address space to hand out to devices this way (again, limited
+by what devices can support and each individual system may want to
+support, but just like above, this number can range from 20 to 63) If
+the device can support more bits than this Kconfig, the resource request
+is truncated to the number indicated by this Kconfig.