docs/releases/4.18: Deprecate Intel Quark and Intel Galileo

The SoC Intel Quark is unmaintained and various efforts to revive it
failed. Thus, deprecate the following components with the 4.18 release.

  * Intel Quark SoC
  * Intel Galileo mainboard

The support for these components will be dropped with the release 4.20.

Change-Id: I738ad74da043649107473dc0c2e6adf343e4cd35
Signed-off-by: Felix Singer <felixsinger@posteo.net>
Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/68260
Reviewed-by: ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Arthur Heymans <arthur@aheymans.xyz>
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) <no-reply@coreboot.org>

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diff --git a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md
index 0a4514a447d8..a8e25bf7cbde 100644
--- a/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md
+++ b/Documentation/releases/coreboot-4.18-relnotes.md
@@ -50,6 +50,19 @@ production as only engineering sample CPUIDs are supported. This reduces
 the maintanence overhead for the coreboot project.
 
 
+### Intel Quark
+
+The SoC Intel Quark is unmaintained and different efforts to revive it failed.
+Also, the only user of this platform ever was the Galileo board.
+
+Thus, to reduce the maintanence overhead for the community, it is deprecated
+from this release on and support for the following components will be dropped
+with the release 4.20.
+
+  * Intel Quark SoC
+  * Intel Galileo mainboard
+
+
 ### LEGACY_SMP_INIT
 
 Legacy SMP init will be removed from the coreboot master branch