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-# The Release process
+# HW Release process
+
+## Nightly
1. When a new release is triggered a new **release candidate** branch will be created from the HEAD of the **main** branch in the **caliptra-rtl** repo.
- Naming of the branch fill indicate it is a release candidate and will have a target point release version (ex. HWRC 0.8_0; HWRC 0.8_1)
-2. A PR will be created in the **caliptra-sw** repo on a new **release candidatre** branch
- * PR will update the RTL submodule pointer to point to the new RTL release candidate branch creates in Step #1.
- * PR will also update the registers RDL
-3. If all the caliptra-sw repo CI tests pass on the PR from step 2 it will be merged
-4. RTL regressions will run using ROM built from the **release candidate** branch in the caliptra-sw repo
-5. If RTL Regression passes a new release will be made on the **TBD** repo and a ZIP file containing the release collateral will be included as part of the release.
-6. The caliptra-rtl and caliptra-sw repos will be tagged with a **release** version tag.
+2. A new **release candidate** branch will be created from the HEAD of the **main** branch in the **caliptra-sw** repo.
+3. A new commit will update the RTL submodule pointer to point to the new RTL release candidate branch creates in Step #1, and update the registers RDL
+4. If all the caliptra-sw repo CI tests pass:
+ 1. A **release candidate** TAG will be made on the HEAD of the **release candidate** branch
+ 2. A **release collateral** archive will be generated and pushed as a Github Artifact
+
+## Major Releases
+
+1. The **release collateral** will be manually used for a RTL DV Checkout
+2. If the RTL Regression passes a new release will be made on the **caliptra** repo and a ZIP file containing the release collateral will be included as part of the release.
+3. The **caliptra-rtl** and **caliptra-sw** repos will be tagged with a **release** version tag.
## Fail Case
+
1. Failure in caliptra-sw repo
- 1. Create PR with the fixes to go to **main** branch in the caliptra-sw repo
- 2. Once PR is merged, fix will be cherry picked into ** release candidate** branch and we would go back to Step #4
+ 1. Create PR with the fixes to go to **main** branch in the caliptra-sw repo
+ 2. Once PR is merged, fix will be cherry picked into **release candidate** branch and we would go back to Step #4
2. Failure in RTL Repo
- 1. Create PR with the fixes to go to **main** branch in the caliptra-rtl repo
- 2. Once PR is merged, fix will be cherry picked into ** release candidate** branch and we would go back to Step #2
+ 1. Create PR with the fixes to go to **main** branch in the caliptra-rtl repo
+ 2. Once PR is merged, fix will be cherry picked into **release candidate** branch and we would go back to Step #3
## Release Collateral
-- Release ZIP File
- - RTL SRC
- - ROM binary files (BIN ,ELF, and HEX)
- - Additional Documentation
- - All specs?
- - Register Documentation (External)
- - Header files with:
- - Register definitions.
- - Reference code for mailbox, etc.
- - Release notes TXT file
- - Which tests were run and which ones passed/failed?
- - All relevant Git commit hashes from both repos
-- Separate Supporting ZIP File (due to size concerns)
- - FPGA Bitstream file
- - C HW model
- - Headers and static library
+
+- Release ZIP File
+ - RTL SRC
+ - ROM binary files (BIN ,ELF, and HEX)
+ - Additional Documentation
+ - All specs?
+ - Register Documentation (External)
+ - Header files with:
+ - Register definitions.
+ - Reference code for mailbox, etc.
+ - Release notes TXT file
+ - Which tests were run and which ones passed/failed?
+ - All relevant Git commit hashes from both repos
+- Separate Supporting ZIP File (due to size concerns)
+ - FPGA Bitstream file
+ - C HW model
+ - Headers and static library
+ - Firmware signed (development key) binary files (BIN, ELF)
+ - Integrator Test Checklist
+ - Fuse Matrix
+ - Test List
+ - Development Key
## Release Rules/Opens
-- All fixes go into a main branch first and then any required fixes for a release will get cherrypicked over.
-- All releases will come from a release candidate branch
+
+- All fixes go into a main branch first and then any required fixes for a release will get cherrypicked over.
+- All releases will come from a release candidate branch
+
+ *Caliptra Release Flow*
+
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