- ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count``
- ``rte_eal_parse_devargs_str``, replaced by ``rte_eal_devargs_parse``
-* eal: the support of Xen dom0 will be removed from EAL in 17.11; and with
- that, drivers/net/xenvirt and examples/vhost_xen will also be removed.
-
* eal: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 to make DPDK aware of IOVA address
translation scheme.
Reference to phys address in EAL data-structure or functions may change to
done by the EAL and not by the ``ethdev`` layer anymore. Users relying on this
flag being present only have to remove their checks to follow the change.
-* ethdev: An ABI change is planned for 17.11 for the structure rte_eth_dev_data.
- The size of the unique name will increase RTE_ETH_NAME_MAX_LEN from 32 to
- 64 characters to allow using a globally unique identifier (GUID) in this field.
-
* ethdev: new parameters - ``rte_security_capabilities`` and
``rte_security_ops`` will be added to ``rte_eth_dev_info`` and
``rte_eth_dev`` respectively to support security operations like
- ``rte_cryptodev_vdev_pmd_init``
-* cryptodev: the following function will have an extra parameter, passing a
- statically allocated crypto driver structure, instead of calling malloc,
- in 17.11:
-
- - ``rte_cryptodev_allocate_driver``
-
* librte_meter: The API will change to accommodate configuration profiles.
Most of the API functions will have an additional opaque parameter.