doc: add Marvell cnxk platform guide

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_21_05.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_05.rst
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@@ -55,6 +55,15 @@ New Features
      Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
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+* **Added support for Marvell CN10K SoC drivers.**
+
+  Added Marvell CN10K SoC support. Marvell CN10K SoC are based on Octeon 10
+  family of ARM64 processors with ARM Neoverse N2 core with accelerators for
+  packet processing, timers, cryptography, etc.
+
+  * Added common/cnxk driver consisting of common API to be used by
+    net, crypto and event PMD's.
+
 * **Enhanced ethdev representor syntax.**
 
   * Introduced representor type of VF, SF and PF.