Documentation/releases: Finalize the 4.19 release notes

These are the final 4.19 release notes before tagging the release.

Final updates to statistics and removal of comments saying "planned" and
"Upcoming" will be removed after the release is tagged.

Signed-off-by: Martin Roth <gaumless@gmail.com>
Change-Id: Ie20ad22732ce2e1d92e47b8e48268c6a5a34ca5b
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/71942
Reviewed-by: Felix Singer <felixsinger@posteo.net>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>

1 files changed, 91 insertions, 52 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.19-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.19-relnotes.md
index b6185d3d77af..e03c3e8afe87 100644
--- a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.19-relnotes.md
+++ b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.19-relnotes.md
@@ -1,34 +1,28 @@
 Upcoming release - coreboot 4.19
 ========================================================================
 
-The 4.19 release is planned for the 15th of January 2023.
+The 4.19 release is planned for the 16th of January 2023.
 
-Since the last release, the coreboot project has merged almost 1500
-commits from over 150 authors.  Of those authors, more than 20 were
+Since the last release, the coreboot project has merged over 1600
+commits from over 150 authors. Of those authors, around 25 were
 first-time committers to the coreboot project.
 
 As always, we are very grateful to all of the contributors for helping
-to keep the project going.  The coreboot project is different from many
+to keep the project going. The coreboot project is different from many
 open source projects in that we need to keep constantly updating the
 codebase to stay relevant with the latest processors and technologies.
 It takes constant effort to just stay afloat, let alone improve the
-codebase.  Thank you very much to everyone who has contributed, both
-in this release and in previous times.
+codebase. Thank you very much to everyone who has contributed, both in
+this release and in previous times.
 
+The 4.20 release is planned for the 20th of April, 2023.
 
-Update this document with changes that should be in the release notes.
-
-* 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.
-* Note that all changes before the release are done are marked upcoming.
-  A final version of the notes are done after the release.
 
 Significant or interesting changes
 ----------------------------------
 
-### Show all Kconfig options in saved config file, compress it
+
+### Show all Kconfig options in saved config file; compress same
 
 The coreboot build system automatically adds a 'config' file to CBFS
 that lists the exact Kconfig configuration that the image was built
@@ -62,36 +56,60 @@ always has LZMA support included.
 ### Finished the conversion to ASL 2.0 syntax
 
 Until recently, coreboot still contained lots of code using the legacy
-ASL syntax. However, all ASL code was ported over to make use of the
-ASL 2.0 syntax and from this point on new ASL code should make use of
-it.
-
+ASL syntax. However, all ASL code was ported over to make use of the ASL
+2.0 syntax and from this point on new ASL code should make use of it.
 
 
 Additional coreboot changes
 ---------------------------
 
-* Significant work to enable and build-test clang builds
-
+* Significant work was done to enable and build-test clang builds.
+* Added touchscreen power sequencing and runtime detection.
+* A number of patches were added to clean up and improve SMBIOS.
+* Work is in progress to unify and extend coreboot post codes.
+* Clean up for header includes is in progress with help from IWYU.
+* IOAPIC code has been reworked.
+* Support was added to superiotool for the NCT6687D-W chip.
+* Work is progressing to switch return values to enum cb_err instead of
+  bool or other pass/fail indicators.
+* Clang builds are now working for most boards and are being
+  build-tested.
+* 64-bit coreboot support is in progress and is working on a number of
+  platforms.
+* A driver for EC used on various Clevo laptops was added.
+* Native Intel Lynxpoint code was added to replace the MRC.bin.
+* Work continued for the process of adding ops structures to the
+  devicetree.
+* The crossgcc tool can now download the source packages, which are
+  needed to build the coreboot toolchain, from coreboot’s own mirror if
+  desired.
+* A document with useful external resources related to firmware
+  development was added at Documentation/external_docs.md.
 
 
 New Mainboards
 --------------
 
-* AMD: Mayan for Morgana SoC
+* AMD: Mayan for Phoenix SoC
 * GIGABYTE: GA-H61M-DS2
 * Google: Crystaldrift
 * Google: Gladios
+* Google: Dibbi
+* Google: Gaelin
 * Google: Marasov
+* Google: Markarth
+* Google: Omnigul
 * Google: Voltorb
 * Intel: Meteorlake-P RVP
+* MSI: PRO Z690-A (WIFI)
 * Siemens: MC_EHL3
 * Star Labs: StarBook Mk VI (i3-1220P and i7-1260P)
 * System76: darp8
 * System76: galp6
 
+
 Removed Mainboards
--------------------
+------------------
 
 * AMD: Inagua
 * AMD: Olive Hill
@@ -114,6 +132,7 @@ Removed Mainboards
 * ELMEX: pcm205401
 * GizmoSphere: Gizmo
 * GizmoSphere: Gizmo2
+* Google: Morthal
 * HP: ABM
 * HP: Pavilion m6 1035dx
 * Jetway: NF81_T56N_LF
@@ -124,31 +143,36 @@ Removed Mainboards
 * PC Engines: APU1
 
 
-New SoCs
--------------------
-
-* soc/amd/glinda
-
+Updated SoCs
+------------
 
-Removed processors
--------------------
+* Added soc/amd/glinda
+* Renamed soc/amd/morgana to soc/amd/phoenix
+* Removed cpu/amd/agesa/family14
+* Removed cpu/amd/agesa/family15tn
+* Removed cpu/amd/agesa/family16kb
 
-* cpu/amd/agesa/family14
-* cpu/amd/agesa/family15tn
-* cpu/amd/agesa/family16kb
 
+Updated Chipsets
+----------------
 
+* Removed northbridge/amd/agesa/family14
+* Removed northbridge/amd/agesa/family15tn
+* Removed northbridge/amd/agesa/family16kb
+* Removed southbridge/amd/agesa/hudson
+* Removed southbridge/amd/cimx/sb800
 
 
 Payloads
 --------
 
-### Payload changes go here
+* Updated GRUB from 2.04 to 2.06
+* Updated SeaBIOS 1.16.0 to 1.16.1
 
 
+Plans to move platform support to a branch
+------------------------------------------
 
-Plans to move platform support to a branch:
--------------------------------------------
 
 ### Intel Icelake SoC & Icelake RVP mainboard
 
@@ -157,7 +181,7 @@ was the Intel CRB (Customer Reference Board). From the looks of the
 code, it was never ready for production as only engineering sample
 CPUIDs are supported.
 
-Intel Icelake code will be removed with release 4.19 and any maintenence
+Intel Icelake code will be removed following 4.19 and any maintenance
 will be done on the 4.19 branch. This consists of the Intel Icelake SoC
 and Intel Icelake RVP mainboard.
 
@@ -165,10 +189,10 @@ and Intel Icelake RVP mainboard.
 ### Intel Quark SoC & Galileo mainboard
 
 The SoC Intel Quark is unmaintained and different efforts to revive it
-failed.  Also, the only user of this platform ever was the Galileo
+failed. Also, the only user of this platform ever was the Galileo
 board.
 
-Thus, to reduce the maintanence overhead for the community, support for
+Thus, to reduce the maintenance overhead for the community, support for
 the following components will be removed from the master branch and will
 be maintained on the release 4.20 branch.
 
@@ -179,16 +203,31 @@ be maintained on the release 4.20 branch.
 Statistics from the 4.18 to the 4.19 release
 --------------------------------------------
 
-- Total Commits: 1376
-- Average Commits per day: 18.24
-- Total lines added: 83954
-- Average lines added per commit: 61.01
-- Number of patches adding more than 100 lines: 69
-- Average lines added per small commit: 38.96
-- Total lines removed: 765520
-- Average lines removed per commit: 556.34
-- Total difference between added and removed: -681566
-
-
-Known Issues
-------------
+- Total Commits: 1608
+- Average Commits per day: 17.39
+- Total lines added: 93786
+- Average lines added per commit: 58.32
+- Number of patches adding more than 100 lines: 80
+- Average lines added per small commit: 38.54
+- Total lines removed: 768014
+- Total difference between added and removed: -674228
+
+
+Significant Known and Open Issues
+---------------------------------
+
+Issues from the coreboot bugtracker: https://ticket.coreboot.org/
+
+| #   | Subject                                                         |
+|-----|-----------------------------------------------------------------|
+| 449 | ThinkPad T440p fail to start, continuous beeping & LED blinking |
+| 448 | Thinkpad T440P ACPI Battery Value Issues                        |
+| 446 | Optiplex 9010 No Post                                           |
+| 445 | Thinkpad X200 wifi issue                                        |
+| 439 | Lenovo X201 Turbo Boost not working (stuck on 2,4GHz)           |
+| 427 | x200: Two battery charging issues                               |
+| 414 | X9SAE-V: No USB keyboard init on SeaBIOS using Radeon RX 6800XT |
+| 412 | x230 reboots on suspend                                         |
+| 393 | T500 restarts rather than waking up from suspend                |
+| 350 | I225 PCIe device not detected on Harcuvar                       |
+| 327 | OperationRegion (OPRG, SystemMemory, ASLS, 0x2000) causes BSOD  |