Libreboot release 6 beta 2.r20140716

Deleted all git-related files from the coreboot directory. This was
necessary because with those it is possible to run 'git diff' which
shows the changes made in the form of a patch (diff format); this
includes the blobs that were deleted during deblobbing.

4 files changed, 96 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/LATER b/LATER
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..60b1a4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LATER
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+This list may or may not be up to date.
+
+Relevant changes merged since the last libreboot (6th release) in coreboot repository
+"relevant" means that it applies to the systems currently libreboot supports
+
+These are not all commits since June 1st. Just the "relevant" ones.
+
+earliest
+
+http://review.coreboot.org/5344
+http://review.coreboot.org/5896
+http://review.coreboot.org/5891
+http://review.coreboot.org/5892
+http://review.coreboot.org/5922
+http://review.coreboot.org/5923
+http://review.coreboot.org/5893
+http://review.coreboot.org/6031
+http://review.coreboot.org/6061
+http://review.coreboot.org/6027
+http://review.coreboot.org/6036
+http://review.coreboot.org/161 -- merged from a change by Sven Schnelle (original X60/T60 port maintainer) in 2011. Might regress (or improve!) some things. Must check.
+http://review.coreboot.org/5932
+
+latest
+
+-------------
+
+Unmerged (at the time of writing) that may be relevant
+This is DEFINITELY not complete, but rather lists "interesting" commits (meaning, may be relevant)
+
+http://review.coreboot.org/#/c/6192/
+
+
+
+
+
+--------------
+reported by a user (dmesg for vbios replacement)
+(errors already known. being looked into)
+
+[    1.108233] i915 0000:00:02.0: Invalid ROM contents
+[    1.108362] [drm] drm/i915 developers can then reassign to the right component if it's not a kernel issue.
+[    1.108387] i915: render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
+[    1.108393] i915: page table error
+[    1.108398] i915:   PGTBL_ER: 0x00000012
+[    1.108405] [drm:i915_report_and_clear_eir] *ERROR* EIR stuck: 0x00000010, masking
+[    1.108438] i915: render error detected, EIR: 0x00000010
+[    1.108444] i915: page table error
+[    1.108449] i915:   PGTBL_ER: 0x00000012
+[    1.613556] i915 0000:00:02.0: fb0: inteldrmfb frame buffer device
+[    1.613601] i915 0000:00:02.0: registered panic notifier
+[    1.613649] [drm] Initialized i915 1.6.0 20080730 for 0000:00:02.0 on minor 0
+[  268.436033] [drm] GMBUS [i915 gmbus dpc] timed out, falling back to bit banging on pin 4
+[  268.711096] [drm] GMBUS [i915 gmbus dpb] timed out, falling back to bit banging on pin 5
+[  268.986095] [drm] GMBUS [i915 gmbus dpd] timed out, falling back to bit banging on pin 6
+
+------------
diff --git a/docs/RELEASE.html b/docs/RELEASE.html
index 914e419..7d41aeb 100644
--- a/docs/RELEASE.html
+++ b/docs/RELEASE.html
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
 
 	<h2>Releases</h2>
 	<ul>
-		<li><a href="#release6">6th release</a> (2014 July 11th, <b>pre-release, 1st beta</b>)</h1>
+		<li><a href="#release6">6th release</a> (2014 July 16th, <b>pre-release, 2nd beta</b>)</h1>
 		<li><a href="#release5">5th release</a> (2014 March 7th, revised 2014 June 22nd)</h1>
 		<li><a href="#release4">4th release</a> (2014 February 21st)</h1>
 		<li><a href="#release3">3rd release</a> (2013 December 14th)</h1>
@@ -52,11 +52,11 @@
 
 <hr/>
 
-	<h1 id="release6">6th release (pre-release, 1st beta)</h1>
+	<h1 id="release6">6th release (pre-release, 2nd beta)</h1>
 
 		<ul>
-			<li>2014 July 11th (<i>pre-</i>release) <b>1st beta</b></li>
-			<li>Revised 20XX Y Z (irrelevant, for now)</li>
+			<li>Released 2014 July 11th (<i>pre-</i>release) <b>1st beta</b></li>
+			<li>Revised (pre-release, 2nd beta) 2016 July 16th</li>
 		</ul>
 
 		<div class="important">
@@ -72,21 +72,21 @@
 
 		<h2>Binaries (for flashing)</h2>
 			<ul>
-				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_bin.tar.gz">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_bin.tar.gz</a></li>
-				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_bin.tar.gz.gpg.sig">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_bin.tar.gz.gpg.sig</a></li>
-				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_bin.tar.gz.sha512sum.txt">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_bin.tar.gz.sha512sum.txt</a></li>
+				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_bin.tar.gz">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_bin.tar.gz</a></li>
+				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_bin.tar.gz.gpg.sig">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_bin.tar.gz.gpg.sig</a></li>
+				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_bin.tar.gz.sha512sum.txt">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_bin.tar.gz.sha512sum.txt</a></li>
 			</ul>
 		<h2>Source code (for hacking)</h2>
 			<ul>
-				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_src.tar.gz">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_src.tar.gz</a></li>
-				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_src.tar.gz.gpg.sig">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_src.tar.gz.gpg.sig</a></li>
-				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_src.tar.gz.sha512sum.txt">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_src.tar.gz.sha512sum.txt</a></li>
+				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_src.tar.gz">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_src.tar.gz</a></li>
+				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_src.tar.gz.gpg.sig">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_src.tar.gz.gpg.sig</a></li>
+				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_src.tar.gz.sha512sum.txt">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_src.tar.gz.sha512sum.txt</a></li>
 			</ul>
 		<h2>Metadata (for re-creating the source archive)</h2>
 			<ul>
-				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_meta.tar.gz">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_meta.tar.gz</a></li>
-				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_meta.tar.gz.gpg.sig">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_meta.tar.gz.gpg.sig</a></li>
-				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_meta.tar.gz.sha512sum.txt">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta1/libreboot_meta.tar.gz.sha512sum.txt</a></li>
+				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_meta.tar.gz">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_meta.tar.gz</a></li>
+				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_meta.tar.gz.gpg.sig">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_meta.tar.gz.gpg.sig</a></li>
+				<li><a href="http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_meta.tar.gz.sha512sum.txt">http://libreboot.org/release/5/prerelease_beta2/libreboot_meta.tar.gz.sha512sum.txt</a></li>
 			</ul>
 
 		<h2>Machines still supported (compared to previous release):</h2>
@@ -120,6 +120,11 @@
 					A proposed (untested) workaround for GRUB is to lower the screen resolution for that machine (only in GRUB), or try to fix it (the current theory is that not enough memory is
 					allocated for the framebuffer; this is an issue to be dealt with in coreboot (the upstream provider) and not libreboot (the downstream provider)).
 				</p>
+			<h2><u>*</u> T60 15.4&quot; (1280x800 and 1680x1050) with Intel GPU is <u>UNTESTED</u></h2>
+				<p>
+					T60 15.4&quot; (1280x800 and 1680x1050) with Intel GPU is untested in this pre-release. Not much yet is known about panel names.
+					They will be tested at a later date.
+				</p>
 			<h2><u>**</u> Warning: MacBook2,1 <u>UNTESTED</u>!</h2>
 				<p>
 					At the time of this pre-release, MacBook2,1 support is present but untested. I have ordered a MacBook2,1
@@ -338,10 +343,16 @@
 					</ul>
 				</li>
 			</ul>
+		<h2>
+			Revisions for 2nd beta (2014 July 16th)
+		</h2>
+			<ul>
+				<li>Removed more blobs: Deleted all git files (and added instructions to getcb, for libreboot_meta.tar.gz): removes history of blobs (which itself also showed the patches and therefore the blobs when using 'git diff')</li>
+			</ul>
 
 		<div class="important">
 			<h2>
-				Other tasks (to be completed as revisions after the initial pre-release)
+				Other tasks (to be completed before declaring the initial stable release)
 			</h2>
 				<ul>
 					<li><b><u><i>TODO:</i></u></b> Re-tooled linux-libre deblob scripts for use with coreboot. <b>Deblobbing is already complete; completion of this additional task will simply make future deblobbing work easier.</b></li>
@@ -364,7 +375,8 @@
 							</li>
 						</ul>
 					</li>
-					<li><b><u><i>TODO:</i></u></b>Modify the Kconfig options in coreboot so that the (non-existent, deleted) microcode is never loaded when building.</li>
+					<li><b><u><i>TODO:</i></u></b> Modify coreboot so that tft_brightness is 0xff by default (for fixing the looping issue automatically)</li>
+					<li><b><u><i>TODO:</i></u></b> Modify the Kconfig options in coreboot so that the (non-existent, deleted) microcode is never loaded when building.</li>
 					<li><b><u><i>TODO:</i></u></b> Ask Mono what license he wants to use for his pages (see notes in docs/index.html#macbook21) and then include a copy in the relevant part of the documentation. (note: the backups are not included for now, for this exact reason)</li>
 					<li><b><u><i>TODO:</i></u></b> Retroactively GPG-sign the final revisions of each previous release. (SHA512 sums aswell).</li>
 					<li><b><u><i>TODO:</i></u></b> For the gitdiff in resources/libreboot/patch, re-implement those changes as actual commits in git, using separate patch files for each change.</li>
diff --git a/docs/index.html b/docs/index.html
index 9322fc7..8e8f2de 100644
--- a/docs/index.html
+++ b/docs/index.html
@@ -486,6 +486,11 @@
 
 	<h1 id="supported_t60_list">Supported T60 list</h1>
 
+		<p>
+			T60 15.4&quot; (1280x800 and 1680x1050) with Intel GPU is untested in this release. Not much yet is known about panel names.
+			They will be tested at a later date.
+		</p>
+
 		<ul>
 			<li>
 				The following ThinkPad T60's are supported:
diff --git a/getcb b/getcb
index 57c38c6..b1e8e3d 100755
--- a/getcb
+++ b/getcb
@@ -144,6 +144,13 @@ rm -rf gitdiff
 cd ../
 echo "deblobbing coreboot"
 ./DEBLOB
+# The git history (git diff command) shows what blobs were deleted (including the blobs themselves) which is a freedom issue. Just delete .git altogether:
+cd coreboot
+rm -rf .git
+rm -rf .gitreview
+rm -rf .gitmodules
+rm -rf .gitignore
+cd ../
 echo "finished deblobbing coreboot"
 
 # we're done