net/iavf: deprecate i40evf PMD
authorRobin Zhang <robinx.zhang@intel.com>
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 03:05:39 +0000 (03:05 +0000)
committerQi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:36:17 +0000 (10:36 +0200)
commite9c5672ac15febcc93d5d30ff1a12050e5d7d571
tree50c1632e7d4b995106dd61801ad33eda81dcc5a7
parentcafd87f62a06ca802e25747b5a9cb38ece98889e
net/iavf: deprecate i40evf PMD

The i40evf PMD will be deprecated, iavf will be the only VF driver for
Intel 700 serial (i40e) NIC family.

To reach this, there will be 2 steps:

Step 1: iavf will be the default VF driver, while i40evf still can be
selected by devarg: "driver=i40evf".
This is covered by this patch, which include:
1) add all 700 serial NIC VF device ID into iavf PMD
2) skip probe if devargs contain "driver=i40evf" in iavf
3) continue probe if devargs contain "driver=i40evf" in i40evf

Step 2: i40evf and related devarg are removed, this will happen at DPDK
21.11

Between step 1 and step 2, no new feature will be added into i40evf
except bug fix.

Signed-off-by: Robin Zhang <robinx.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Acked-by: Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>
doc/guides/nics/intel_vf.rst
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
drivers/common/iavf/iavf_devids.h
drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev_vf.c
drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c