doc: add DPAA2 net PMD enhancements to release notes

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_08.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
index 6f3b662..5981eea 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst
@@ -101,6 +101,15 @@ New Features
 
   Added support for firmwares with multiple Ethernet ports per physical port.
 
+* **Updated dpaa2 PMD.**
+
+  Major enhancements include:
+  * Support MAC Filter configuration
+  * Support Segmented Buffers
+  * Support VLAN filter and strip functionality.
+  * Other enhancements to add support for more dev_ops.
+  * Optimized the packet receive path
+
 * **Reorganized the symmetric crypto operation structure.**
 
   The crypto operation (``rte_crypto_sym_op``) has been reorganized as follows:
@@ -169,6 +178,11 @@ New Features
   Added a multicore based distribution mode, which distributes the enqueued
   crypto operations among several slaves, running on different logical cores.
 
+* **Added NXP DPAA2 Eventdev PMD.**
+
+  Added the new dpaa2 eventdev driver for NXP DPAA2 devices. See the
+  "Event Device Drivers" document for more details on this new driver.
+
 * **Added dpdk-test-eventdev test application.**
 
   The dpdk-test-eventdev tool is a Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) application
@@ -246,6 +260,12 @@ API Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 
+* **Modified the _rte_eth_dev_callback_process function in the ethdev library.**
+
+  The function ``_rte_eth_dev_callback_process()`` has been modified. The return
+  value has been changed from void to int and an extra parameter ``void *ret_param``
+  has been added.
+
 * **Moved bypass functions from the rte_ethdev library to ixgbe PMD**
 
   * The following rte_ethdev library functions were removed:
@@ -293,6 +313,7 @@ API Changes
   * Added new field ``session_pool`` to ``rte_cryptodev_queue_pair_setup()``.
   * Removed ``aad_size`` parameter from ``rte_cryptodev_sym_capability_check_auth()``.
   * Added ``iv_size`` parameter to ``rte_cryptodev_sym_capability_check_auth()``.
+  * Removed ``RTE_CRYPTO_OP_STATUS_ENQUEUED`` from enum ``rte_crypto_op_status``.
 
 
 ABI Changes
@@ -321,6 +342,7 @@ ABI Changes
 * **Reorganized the ``rte_crypto_sym_cipher_xform`` structure.**
 
   * Added cipher IV length and offset parameters.
+  * Changed field size of key length from size_t to uint16_t.
 
 * **Reorganized the ``rte_crypto_sym_auth_xform`` structure.**
 
@@ -328,6 +350,7 @@ ABI Changes
   * Changed field size of AAD length from uint32_t to uint16_t.
   * Changed field size of digest length from uint32_t to uint16_t.
   * Removed AAD length.
+  * Changed field size of key length from size_t to uint16_t.
 
 * Replaced ``dev_type`` enumeration with uint8_t ``driver_id`` in
   ``rte_cryptodev_info`` and  ``rte_cryptodev`` structures.
@@ -360,7 +383,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
    + librte_cryptodev.so.3
      librte_distributor.so.1
      librte_eal.so.4
-     librte_ethdev.so.6
+   + librte_ethdev.so.7
    + librte_gro.so.1
      librte_hash.so.2
      librte_ip_frag.so.1