Upcoming release - coreboot 4.16

The 4.16 release is planned for February, 2022.

We are increasing the frequency of releases in order to enable others to release quarterly on a fresher version of coreboot.

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• The chip and board additions and removals will be updated right before the release, so those do not need to be added.

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Option to disable Intel Management Engine

Disable the Intel (Converged Security) Management Engine ((CS)ME) via HECI based on Intel Core processors from Skylake to Alder Lake. State is set based on a CMOS value of me_state. A value of 0 will result in a (CS)ME state of 0 (working) and value of 1 will result in a (CS)ME state of 3 (disabled). For an example CMOS layout and more info, see cse.c.