doc: add Cavium OCTEONTX eventdev PMD to release notes

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_05.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst
index d468e5b..d5d5205 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst
@@ -188,6 +188,18 @@ New Features
   and applications are free to choose whatever model
   (or combination of the two) that best suits their needs.
 
+* **Added Software Eventdev PMD.**
+
+  Added support for the software eventdev PMD. The software eventdev is a
+  software based scheduler device that implements the eventdev API. This
+  PMD allows an application to configure a pipeline using the eventdev
+  library, and run the scheduling workload on a CPU core.
+
+* **Added Cavium OCTEONTX Eventdev PMD.**
+
+  Added the new octeontx ssovf eventdev driver for OCTEONTX devices. See the
+  "Event Device Drivers" document for more details on this new driver.
+
 
 Resolved Issues
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