2018.02-rc1 Public Release

Major new features:

Additional New Hardware Platforms
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  afdc69e inventec_dcs7032q28b: Add new platform
  640ebe3 Platform support for the DELL EMC S4100
  682e39a inventec_d7054q28b:Add new platform
  503e6bf Adding a new lenovo platform NE2572
  b2d5162 Accton AS7816_64X: add to support r1 ONIE
  30a7079 Accton AS5916_54XM: add to support ONIE
  5e1c7b0 Add machine delta_ag9064
  3515f3c Accton AS7312_54XS: add to support ONIE
  38dd2bb Accton AS5916_54XK: add to support ONIE
  fd2204a Accton AS7726_32X: add to support ONIE

Default Kernel -- 4.9.y
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  Not in place yet for 2018.02-rc1, but for final release will be
  latest 4.9.y (greater than 77 likely) with support for current
  Meltdown and Spectre patches.

Bugs Fixes / Improvements
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Hardware Support:

  942d50b inventec_d6254qs: Move to kernel 4.9.57
  156461b coreboot: build target grub-i386-pc for .ISO installer
  31b36b7 intel_coreboot_rangeley: set switch asic to 'none'
  cc6a77b grub:coreboot:build-grub-mkfont unifont.bdf
  443ba79 inventec_d7054q28b:Modification for rootconf
  6f3fcd7 1.fix kernel dependant. 2.kernel config add support ipmi.
  bc25ef2 Update ONIE support for Mellanox x86 based systems.
  3ed8cd6 im_n29xx_t40n: Handle uninstall of MSDOS partitions.
  4cb1103 VENDOR_VERSION is updated on Lenovo G8272 and G8296

Testing and Certification:

Misc:

  7933764 Improve checking for missing libraries at build time
  7d38c39 pkg-config: configure packages' --prefix properly
  5452c04 pkg-config: prepend $(DEV_SYSROOT) to responses
  72c9df8 image-discovery: update TFTP server search order
  5de5768 intel_coreboot_rangeley: add demo OS files
  3753cb7 Add build time platform information to GRUB messages
  cc7a80a grub: be able to set timeout by platform
  a8289ed grub-arch:onie-sysinfo use DMI information if no syseeprom
  e2c1ea1 dmidecode: upgrade to version 3.1
  45c3ef6 demo OS: wait boot device ready before mouting ONIE-DEMO-OS
  fe5b096 machine.conf: generated automatically during ONIE booting
  33768d0 gen-config: remove double quotes from onie_platform