bus/vdev: move code from EAL into a new driver

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_17_11.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
index 4846448..2ea963c 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_11.rst
@@ -173,7 +173,8 @@ New Features
 * **Added IOMMU support to libvhost-user**
 
   Implemented device IOTLB in Vhost-user backend, and enabled Virtio's IOMMU
-  feature.
+  feature. The feature is disabled by default, and can be enabled by setting
+  RTE_VHOST_USER_IOMMU_SUPPORT flag at vhost device registration time.
 
 * **Added the Event Ethernet Adapter Library.**
 
@@ -378,6 +379,14 @@ API Changes
   These functions are made available either as part of ``librte_pci`` or
   ``librte_bus_pci``.
 
+* **Moved vdev bus APIs outside of the EAL**
+
+  Moved the following APIs from ``librte_eal`` to ``librte_bus_vdev``:
+  * ``rte_vdev_init``
+  * ``rte_vdev_register``
+  * ``rte_vdev_uninit``
+  * ``rte_vdev_unregister``
+
 * **Add return value to stats_get dev op API**
 
   The ``stats_get`` dev op API return value has been changed to be int.
@@ -396,6 +405,9 @@ API Changes
   and have been replaced by non bus specific functions
   ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_parse_input_args()`` and ``rte_cryptodev_pmd_create()``.
 
+* ``rte_cryptodev_create_vdev`` was removed to avoid the dependency on vdev
+  in librte_cryptodev; instead, users can call rte_vdev_init() directly.
+
 * **Removed PCI device bus specific functions from librte_cryptodev.**
 
   The functions ``rte_cryptodev_pci_generic_probe()`` and
@@ -487,6 +499,7 @@ The libraries prepended with a plus sign were incremented in this version.
 
      librte_acl.so.2
    + librte_bitratestats.so.2
+   + librte_bus_vdev.so.1
      librte_cfgfile.so.2
      librte_cmdline.so.2
    + librte_cryptodev.so.4