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40 * Enhanced feature bar to do something else.
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45 * Core libs (EAL, mempool, ring, mbuf, buses)
46 * Device abstraction libs and PMDs
48 - cryptodev (lib, PMDs)
49 - eventdev (lib, PMDs)
52 * Apps, Examples, Tools (if significant)
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58 * **Added new ethdev API for PMD power management.**
60 Added ``rte_eth_get_monitor_addr()``, to be used in conjunction with
61 ``rte_power_monitor()`` to enable automatic power management for PMDs.
63 * **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.**
65 Updated the Broadcom bnxt driver with fixes and improvements, including:
67 * Added support for Stingray2 device.
69 * **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.**
71 Updated the Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including:
73 * Introduced basic support on Windows.
75 * **Updated GSO support.**
77 * Added inner UDP/IPv4 support for VXLAN IPv4 GSO.
79 * **Added enqueue & dequeue callback APIs for cryptodev library.**
81 Cryptodev library is added with enqueue & dequeue callback APIs to
82 enable applications to add/remove user callbacks which gets called
83 for every enqueue/dequeue operation.
85 * **Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD.**
87 * Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD lookaside protocol offload for IPsec with
88 ESN and anti-replay support.
89 * Updated the OCTEON TX2 crypto PMD with CN98xx support.
90 * Added support for aes-cbc sha1-hmac cipher combination in OCTEON TX2 crypto
91 PMD lookaside protocol offload for IPsec.
92 * Added support for aes-cbc sha256-128-hmac cipher combination in OCTEON TX2
93 crypto PMD lookaside protocol offload for IPsec.
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108 * Removed support for NetXtreme devices belonging to ``BCM573xx and
109 BCM5740x`` families. Specifically the support for the following Broadcom
110 PCI device IDs ``0x16c8, 0x16c9, 0x16ca, 0x16ce, 0x16cf, 0x16df, 0x16d0,``
111 ``0x16d1, 0x16d2, 0x16d4, 0x16d5, 0x16e7, 0x16e8, 0x16e9`` has been removed.
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128 * cryptodev: The structure ``rte_cryptodev`` has been updated with pointers
129 for adding enqueue and dequeue callbacks.
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147 * No ABI change that would break compatibility with 20.11.
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