DPDK Release 18.08
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New Features
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* **Added support for Hyper-V netvsc PMD.**
The new ``netvsc`` poll mode driver provides native support for
API Changes
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* The path to the runtime config file has changed. The new path is determined
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Shared Library Versions
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The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
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librte_distributor.so.1
+ librte_eal.so.8
+ librte_ethdev.so.10
- librte_eventdev.so.4
+ + librte_eventdev.so.5
librte_flow_classify.so.1
librte_gro.so.1
librte_gso.so.1
Tested Platforms
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* Intel(R) platforms with Intel(R) NICs combinations
* CPU
* Mellanox MLNX_OFED 4.2-1.4.21.0
* DPDK application running on ARM cores inside SmartNIC
- * Bluefield representors support planned for next release.
+ * BlueField representors support planned for next release.