From: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:32:27 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: announce deprecation of librte_malloc X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~8731 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;h=53dbab96d5ecccd7662f4de3c17030ea3e11cda2;p=dpdk.git doc: announce deprecation of librte_malloc Announce the creation of dummy malloc library for 2.1 and removal of such library, now integrated in librte_eal, for 2.2 release. Signed-off-by: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst index 126f73e4f1..9e98d6253e 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst @@ -29,3 +29,8 @@ Deprecation Notices and several ``PKT_RX_`` flags will be removed, to support unified packet type from release 2.1. Those changes may be enabled in the upcoming release 2.1 with CONFIG_RTE_NEXT_ABI. + +* librte_malloc library has been integrated into librte_eal. The 2.1 release + creates a dummy/empty malloc library to fulfill binaries with dynamic linking + dependencies on librte_malloc.so. Such dummy library will not be created from + release 2.2 so binaries will need to be rebuilt.