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35 * Added feature foo to do something.
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44 * **Add MAC loopback support for i40e.**
46 Add MAC loopback support for i40e in order to support test task asked by
47 users. According to the device configuration, it will setup TX->RX loopback
50 * **Added NVGRE and UDP tunnels support in Solarflare network PMD.**
52 Added support for NVGRE, VXLAN and GENEVE tunnels.
54 * Added support for UDP tunnel ports configuration.
55 * Added tunneled packets classification.
56 * Added inner checksum offload.
58 * **Added the igb ethernet driver to support RSS with flow API.**
60 Rte_flow actually defined to include RSS, but till now, RSS is out of
61 rte_flow. This patch is to support igb NIC with existing RSS configuration
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121 Shared Library Versions
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128 + librte_cfgfile.so.2
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135 The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
140 librte_bitratestats.so.2
142 librte_bus_fslmc.so.1
147 librte_cryptodev.so.4
148 librte_distributor.so.1
152 librte_flow_classify.so.1
160 librte_latencystats.so.1
173 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
175 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
176 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
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