From: Ray Kinsella Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2020 17:51:00 +0000 (+0100) Subject: doc: reword ABI policy for Windows X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?p=dpdk.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=2bfd75a6981430cb011659dd4afc693cae154082 doc: reword ABI policy for Windows Minor changes to the abi policy for windows. Signed-off-by: Ray Kinsella --- diff --git a/doc/guides/contributing/abi_policy.rst b/doc/guides/contributing/abi_policy.rst index d0affa9e60..ab9daf543d 100644 --- a/doc/guides/contributing/abi_policy.rst +++ b/doc/guides/contributing/abi_policy.rst @@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ General Guidelines DPDK 19.11. This policy will be reviewed in 2020, with intention of lengthening the stability period. Additional implementation detail can be found in the :ref:`release notes <20_02_abi_changes>`. + Please note that this policy does not currently apply to the + :doc:`Windows build <../windows_gsg/intro>`. What is an ABI? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ diff --git a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst index 58c6246404..4ac7f97828 100644 --- a/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst +++ b/doc/guides/windows_gsg/intro.rst @@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ compile. Support is being added in pieces so as to limit the overall scope of any individual patch series. The goal is to be able to run any DPDK application natively on Windows. -The :doc:`../contributing/abi_policy` cannot be respected for Windows. -Minor ABI versions may be incompatible -because function versioning is not supported on Windows. +The :doc:`../contributing/abi_policy` does not apply to the Windows build, +as function versioning is not supported on Windows, +therefore minor ABI versions may be incompatible.