SR-IOV option in Hyper-V and Azure. This is an alternative to the previous
vdev_netvsc, tap, and failsafe drivers combination.
+* **Added a new net driver for Marvell Armada 3k device.**
+
+ Added the new ``mvneta`` net driver for Marvell Armada 3k device. See the
+ :doc:`../nics/mvneta` NIC guide for more details on this new driver.
+
+* **Added NXP ENETC PMD.**
+
+ Added the new enetc driver for NXP enetc platform. See the
+ "ENETC Poll Mode Driver" document for more details on this new driver.
+
* **Updated failsafe driver.**
Updated the failsafe driver including the following changes:
the specified port. The port must be stopped before the command call in order
to reconfigure queues.
+* **Add a new sample for vDPA**
+
+ The vdpa sample application creates vhost-user sockets by using the
+ vDPA backend. vDPA stands for vhost Data Path Acceleration which utilizes
+ virtio ring compatible devices to serve virtio driver directly to enable
+ datapath acceleration. As vDPA driver can help to set up vhost datapath,
+ this application doesn't need to launch dedicated worker threads for vhost
+ enqueue/dequeue operations.
+
API Changes
-----------
``rte_eal_parse_devargs_str()``, ``rte_eal_devargs_add()``,
``rte_eal_devargs_type_count()``, and ``rte_eal_devargs_dump()``.
+* eal: The parameters of the function ``rte_devargs_remove()`` have changed
+ from bus and device names to ``struct rte_devargs``.
+
* mbuf: The ``__rte_mbuf_raw_free()`` and ``__rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg()``
functions were deprecated since 17.05 and are replaced by
``rte_mbuf_raw_free()`` and ``rte_pktmbuf_prefree_seg()``.
- structure ``rte_eal_memconfig`` has been extended to contain next
socket ID for externally allocated segments
+* eal: The structure ``rte_device`` got a new field to reference a ``rte_bus``.
+ It is changing the size of the ``struct rte_device`` and the inherited
+ device structures of all buses.
+
Removed Items
-------------
librte_bbdev.so.1
librte_bitratestats.so.2
librte_bpf.so.1
- librte_bus_dpaa.so.1
- librte_bus_fslmc.so.1
- librte_bus_pci.so.1
- librte_bus_vdev.so.1
- + librte_bus_vmbus.so.1
+ + librte_bus_dpaa.so.2
+ + librte_bus_fslmc.so.2
+ + librte_bus_ifpga.so.2
+ + librte_bus_pci.so.2
+ + librte_bus_vdev.so.2
+ + librte_bus_vmbus.so.2
librte_cfgfile.so.2
librte_cmdline.so.2
librte_common_octeontx.so.1