baseband/turbo_sw: extend for 5G

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_19_08.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_08.rst
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@@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ New Features
   * Enabled generic filter framework and supported switch filter.
   * Supported UDP tunnel port add.
 
+* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
+
+  Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Updated the packet header modification feature. Added support of TCP header
+    sequence number and acknowledgment number modification.
+
 * **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
 
   Updated the Solarflare ``sfc_efx`` driver with changes including:
@@ -120,6 +127,31 @@ New Features
   * Enabled need_wakeup feature which can provide efficient support for case
     that application and driver executing on the same core.
 
+* **Enabled infinite Rx in the PCAP PMD.**
+
+  Added an infinite Rx feature which allows packets in the Rx PCAP of a PCAP
+  device to be received repeatedly at a high rate. This can be useful for quick
+  performance testing of DPDK apps.
+
+* **Added a FPGA_LTE_FEC bbdev PMD.**
+
+  Added the new ``fpga_lte_fec`` bbdev driver for the Intel® FPGA PAC
+  (Programmable  Acceleration Card) N3000.  See the
+  :doc:`../bbdevs/fpga_lte_fec` BBDEV guide for more details on this new driver.
+
+* **Updated TURBO_SW bbdev PMD.**
+
+  Updated the ``turbo_sw`` bbdev driver with changes including:
+
+  * Added option to build the driver with or without dependency of external
+    SDK libraries.
+  * Added support for 5GNR encode/decode operations.
+
+* **Updated the QuickAssist Technology (QAT) symmetric crypto PMD.**
+
+  Added support for digest-encrypted cases where digest is appended
+  to the data.
+
 * **Added Intel QuickData Technology PMD**
 
   The PMD for Intel\ |reg|  QuickData Technology, part of
@@ -129,6 +161,12 @@ New Features
   of via software, reducing cycles spent copying large blocks of data in
   applications.
 
+* **Introduced NTB PMD.**
+
+  Added a PMD for Intel NTB (Non-transparent Bridge). This PMD implemented
+  handshake between two separate hosts and can share local memory for peer
+  host to directly access.
+
 * **Updated telemetry library for global metrics support.**
 
   Updated ``librte_telemetry`` to fetch the global metrics from the
@@ -172,6 +210,10 @@ API Changes
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 
+* The ``rte_mem_config`` structure has been made private. The new accessor
+  ``rte_mcfg_*`` functions were introduced to provide replacement for direct
+  access to the shared mem config.
+
 * The network structures, definitions and functions have
   been prefixed by ``rte_`` to resolve conflicts with libc headers.
 
@@ -213,6 +255,19 @@ ABI Changes
   Add a Rx adapter stats field to keep track of the total
   number of dropped packets.
 
+* cryptodev: New member in ``rte_cryptodev_config`` to allow applications to
+  disable features supported by the crypto device. Only the following features
+  would be allowed to be disabled this way,
+
+  - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_SYMMETRIC_CRYPTO``
+  - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_ASYMMETRIC_CRYPTO``
+  - ``RTE_CRYPTODEV_FF_SECURITY``
+
+  Disabling unused features would facilitate efficient usage of HW/SW offload.
+
+* bbdev: New operations and parameters added to support new 5GNR operations.
+  The bbdev ABI is still kept experimental.
+
 
 Shared Library Versions
 -----------------------
@@ -244,9 +299,9 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
      librte_cfgfile.so.2
      librte_cmdline.so.2
      librte_compressdev.so.1
-     librte_cryptodev.so.7
+   + librte_cryptodev.so.8
      librte_distributor.so.1
-     librte_eal.so.10
+   + librte_eal.so.11
      librte_efd.so.1
      librte_ethdev.so.12
    + librte_eventdev.so.7