net/bnxt: introduce Broadcom Stingray

[dpdk.git] / doc / guides / rel_notes / release_18_05.rst

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@@ -69,6 +69,20 @@ New Features
   See the :doc:`../nics/axgbe` nic driver guide for more details on this
   new driver.
 
+* **Updated szedata2 PMD.**
+
+  Added support for new NFB-200G2QL card.
+
+* **Added support for Broadcom NetXtreme-S (BCM58800) family of controllers (aka Stingray)**
+
+  The BCM58800 devices feature a NetXtreme E-Series advanced network controller, a high-performance
+  ARM CPU block, PCI Express (PCIe) Gen3 interfaces, key accelerators for compute offload and a high-
+  speed memory subsystem including L3 cache and DDR4 interfaces, all interconnected by a coherent
+  Network-on-chip (NOC) fabric.
+
+  The ARM CPU subsystem features eight ARMv8 Cortex-A72 CPUs at 3.0 GHz, arranged in a multi-cluster
+  configuration.
+
 * **Added support for virtio-user server mode.**
   In a container environment if the vhost-user backend restarts, there's no way
   for it to reconnect to virtio-user. To address this, support for server mode