Hi Tom, Thanks for the update.
On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 14:45, Tom Rini <[email protected]> wrote: > Hey all, > > So it's release day and I have tagged and pushed things out. > > First and foremost, this is a bit rougher than I would like but I hope > that doing the release will underscore the urgency of finishing some of > these fixes. We now require for our own use to be given a correctly (8 > byte) aligned device tree. This is done in a lot of cases. However: > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/[email protected]/#3640858 > is needed to ensure that platforms that use a FIT image in the SPL phase > work. > https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/project/uboot/patch/[email protected]/ > needs to be addressed further to fix the case of platforms which apply > overlays in FIT images (SPL or OS). This series also shows that if your > platform does not boot then SPL_MALLOC_F_LEN may be too small. > https://lore.kernel.org/u-boot/[email protected]/ > contains some of the discussion around the case of SPL *not* enabling > SPL_BSS_SEPARATE and so having an incorrectly sized empty BSS appeneded > to the image. > > So, that's the important state of things right now. Some platforms are > broken. People helping to test the proposed fixes, or if needed, picking > up the changes and posting the next version of them, would be > appreciated. > > We're continuing with a community meeting following the release and the > calendar link is > https://calendar.google.com/calendar/event?action=TEMPLATE&tmeid=MHYzYzQ1dWh2bnRjcm80czVmcDczYmhsNThfMjAyNjAxMjdUMTUwMDAwWiA4OWJlN2I4MTMxMzZiZWMwNmE4M2RlNGRhNTk3NDVmMGFiZDExYzFiODM2MDYxYWUwNmMxYzdkYmNkMThkZjQxQGc&tmsrc=89be7b813136bec06a83de4da59745f0abd11c1b836061ae06c1c7dbcd18df41%40group.calendar.google.com&scp=ALL > and once again this is the same time as the previous meeting. The > meeting details itself are: > https://meet.google.com/btj-wgcg-euw > January 26th, 2025. 9am (GMT -06:00) > > To join by phone: > https://meet.google.com/tel/btj-wgcg-euw?pin=1307528552322&hs=1 > > In terms of a rough changelog: > - We're on v6.17-dts for upstream device trees/bindings. The v6.18-dts > tag will be too late for our release cycle so I expect people to be > using the cherry-pick method to bring in dts changes as needed. > - Lots of platform updates. This is always the case with -rc1 and I > never know which ones to emphasize. > - That said, we've removed ATAGS support from some platforms as it's > very legacy these days. > - Lots of fixing of issues reported by Smatch. > - We now support clang-format and prefer that over the old > scripts/Lindent option for formatting code. > - Continued work on improving our old pre-rST docs and converting them > to rST. > - Fixes in our DFU, MMC, PMIC, USB, UBI, SCMI, UEFI and networking > subsystems. > - Some cleanups and improvements to Falcon mode, with the aim of being > able to support this feature in secure boot contexts. > - More patches required for "allyesconfig" to build have been merged, > but some are still outstanding. > > I continue to plan to do an rc release every two weeks and the final > release will be 05 January 2026. I guess you mean 06 April 2026 as stated in https://docs.u-boot.org/en/latest/develop/release_cycle.html#future-releases > > Thanks all! > > -- > Tom
