has exposed, like the way we have done with uio-pci-generic. This change
targets release 17.05.
-* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.02: ``rte_device``, ``rte_driver`` will be
- impacted because of introduction of a new ``rte_bus`` hierarchy. This would
- also impact the way devices are identified by EAL. A bus-device-driver model
- will be introduced providing a hierarchical view of devices.
-
* ``eth_driver`` is planned to be removed in 17.02. This currently serves as
a placeholder for PMDs to register themselves. Changes for ``rte_bus`` will
provide a way to handle device initialization currently being done in
PMDs that implement the latter.
Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
+
+* distributor: library API will be changed to incorporate a burst-oriented
+ API. This will include a change to ``rte_distributor_create``
+ to specify which type of instance to create (single or burst), and
+ additional calls for ``rte_distributor_poll_pkt_burst`` and
+ ``rte_distributor_return_pkt_burst``, among others.
+
+* The architecture TILE-Gx and the associated mpipe driver are not
+ maintained and will be removed in 17.05.