New Features
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+* Poll-mode driver support for an early release of the PCIE host interface of the Intel(R) Ethernet Switch FM10000.
-* Packet Distributor library for dynamic, single-packet at a time, load balancing
+ * Basic Rx/Tx functions for PF/VF
-* IP fragmentation and reassembly library
+ * Interrupt handling support for PF/VF
-* Support for IPv6 in IP fragmentation and reassembly sample applications
+ * Per queue start/stop functions for PF/VF
-* Support for VFIO for mapping BARs and setting up interrupts
+ * Support Mailbox handling between PF/VF and PF/Switch Manager
-* Link Bonding PMD Library supporting round-robin, active backup, balance(layer 2, layer 2+3, and layer 3+4) and broadcast bonding modes
+ * Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for PF/VF
-* Support zero copy mode RX/TX in user space vhost sample
+ * Scatter receive function for PF/VF
-* Support multiple queues in virtio-net PMD
+ * Reta update/query for PF/VF
-* Support for Intel® 40GbE Controllers
+ * VLAN filter set for PF
-* Support NIC filters in addition to flow director for Intel® 1GbE and 10GbE Controllers
+ * Link status query for PF/VF
+
+.. note:: The software is intended to run on pre-release hardware and may contain unknown or unresolved defects or
+ issues related to functionality and performance.
+ The poll mode driver is also pre-release and will be updated to a released version post hardware and base driver release.
+ Should the official hardware release be made between DPDK releases an updated poll-mode driver will be made available.
+
+* Link Bonding
+
+ * Support for adaptive load balancing (mode 6) to the link bonding library.
+
+ * Support for registration of link status change callbacks with link bonding devices.
+
+ * Support for slaves devices which do not support link status change interrupts in the link bonding library via a link status polling mechanism.
+
+* PCI Hotplug with NULL PMD sample application
+
+* ABI versioning
+
+* x32 ABI
+
+* Non-EAL Thread Support
+
+* Multi-pthread Support
+
+* Re-order Library
+
+* ACL for AVX2
+
+* Architecture Independent CRC Hash
+
+* uio_pci_generic Support
+
+* KNI Optimizations
+
+* Vhost-user support
+
+* Virtio (link, vlan, mac, port IO, perf)
+
+* IXGBE-VF RSS
+
+* RX/TX Callbacks
+
+* Unified Flow Types
+
+* Indirect Attached MBUF Flag
+
+* Use default port configuration in TestPMD
+
+* Tunnel offloading in TestPMD
+
+* Poll Mode Driver - 40 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_i40e)
+
+ * Support for Flow Director
+
+ * Support for ethertype filter
+
+ * Support RSS in VF
+
+ * Support configuring redirection table with different size from 1GbE and 10 GbE
+
+ - 128/512 entries of 40GbE PF
+
+ - 64 entries of 40GbE VF
+
+ * Support configuring hash functions
+
+ * Support for VXLAN packet on Intel® 40GbE Controllers
+
+* Packet Distributor Sample Application
+
+* Job Stats library and Sample Application.
For further features supported in this release, see Chapter 3 Supported Features.