cryptodev: remove vdev create function

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_11.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
index b7546e6..f8c7f23 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
@@ -89,6 +89,17 @@ New Features
   See the "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details of
   this new driver.
 
+* **Updated support for Cavium OCTEONTX Device.**
+
+  Updated support for Cavium's OCTEONTX device(CN83xx). This includes:
+
+  * OCTEONTX Mempool driver for supporting offloaded packet memory pool
+  * OCTEONTX Ethdev PMD
+  * OCTEONTX Eventdev-Ethdev Rx adapter
+
+  See the "Network Interface Controller Drivers" document for more details of
+  this new driver.
+
 * **nfp: Added PF support.**
 
   Previously Netronome's NFP PMD had just support for VFs. PF support is
@@ -162,7 +173,8 @@ New Features
 * **Added IOMMU support to libvhost-user**
 
   Implemented device IOTLB in Vhost-user backend, and enabled Virtio's IOMMU
-  feature.
+  feature. The feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled by setting
+  RTE_VHOST_USER_IOMMU_SUPPORT flag at vhost device registration time.
 
 * **Added the Event Ethernet Adapter Library.**
 
@@ -385,6 +397,9 @@ API Changes
   and have been replaced by non bus specific functions
   ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_parse_input_args()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()``.
 
+* ``rte_cryptodev_create_vdev`` was removed to avoid the dependency on vdev
+  in librte_cryptodev; instead, users can call rte_vdev_init() directly.
+
 * **Removed PCI device bus specific functions from librte_cryptodev.**
 
   The functions ``rte_cryptodev_pci_generic_probe()`` and