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2 Copyright 2019 The DPDK contributors
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44 * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
45 * Device abstraction libs and PMDs
47 - cryptodev (lib, PMDs)
48 - eventdev (lib, PMDs)
51 * Apps, Examples, Tools (if significant)
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57 * **Updated Solarflare network PMD.**
59 Updated the sfc_efx driver including the following changes:
61 * Added support for Rx descriptor status and related API in a secondary
63 * Added support for Tx descriptor status API in a secondary process.
64 * Added support for RSS RETA and hash configuration get API in a secondary
66 * Added support for Rx packet types list in a secondary process.
68 * **Updated Mellanox drivers.**
70 New features and improvements were done in mlx4 and mlx5 PMDs:
72 * Added firmware version reading.
74 * **Renamed avf to iavf.**
76 Renamed Intel Ethernet Adaptive Virtual Function driver ``avf`` to ``iavf``,
77 which includes the directory name, lib name, filenames, makefile, docs,
78 macros, functions, structs and any other strings in the code.
80 * **Updated the enic driver.**
82 * Fixed several flow (director) bugs related to MARK, SCTP, VLAN, VXLAN, and
83 inner packet matching.
84 * Added limited support for RAW.
85 * Added limited support for RSS.
86 * Added limited support for PASSTHRU.
88 * **Updated the ixgbe driver.**
92 * Added promiscuous mode support.
94 * **Updated the testpmd application.**
96 Improved testpmd application performance on ARM platform. For ``macswap``
97 forwarding mode, NEON intrinsics were used to do swap to save CPU cycles.
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164 librte_bitratestats.so.2
167 librte_bus_fslmc.so.2
168 librte_bus_ifpga.so.2
171 librte_bus_vmbus.so.2
174 librte_compressdev.so.1
175 librte_cryptodev.so.6
176 librte_distributor.so.1
181 librte_flow_classify.so.1
189 librte_latencystats.so.1
203 librte_pmd_ixgbe.so.2
204 librte_pmd_dpaa2_qdma.so.1
206 librte_pmd_softnic.so.1
207 librte_pmd_vhost.so.2
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