DPDK Release 20.11
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* **Added write combining store APIs.**
Added ``rte_write32_wc`` and ``rte_write32_wc_relaxed`` APIs
* **Added Wangxun txgbe PMD.**
- Added a new PMD driver for Wangxun 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs.
+ Added a new PMD for Wangxun 10 Gigabit Ethernet NICs.
See the :doc:`../nics/txgbe` for more details.
* **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 regex PMD.**
- Added a new PMD driver for the hardware regex offload block for OCTEON TX2 SoC.
+ Added a new PMD for the hardware regex offload block for OCTEON TX2 SoC.
- See the :doc:`../regexdevs/octeontx2` for more details.
+ See ``regexdevs/octeontx2`` for more details.
* **Updated Software Eventdev driver.**
* **Added a new driver for the Intel Dynamic Load Balancer v1.0 device.**
- Added the new ``dlb`` eventdev driver for the Intel DLB V1.0 device. See the
- :doc:`../eventdevs/dlb` eventdev guide for more details on this new driver.
+ Added the new ``dlb`` eventdev driver for the Intel DLB V1.0 device.
* **Added a new driver for the Intel Dynamic Load Balancer v2.0 device.**
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* build: Support for the Make build system has been removed from DPDK.
Meson is now the primary build system.
Sample applications can still be built with Make standalone, using pkg-config.
* Removed TEP termination sample application.
+* Removed the deprecated ``dpdk-setup.sh`` script.
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* build macros: The macros defining ``RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_*`` have been removed.
The information provided by these macros is now available through standard
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* eal: Removed the unimplemented function ``rte_dump_registers()``.
* ``ethdev`` changes
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* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Intel\ |reg| NICs combinations
* CPU
* CentOS Linux release 7.6.1810 (AltArch)
* MLNX_OFED 5.2-0.3.2 and above
* DPDK application running on Arm cores
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+* Intel\ |reg| platforms with Broadcom\ |reg| NICs combinations
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+ * CPU:
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+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Gold 6154 CPU @ 3.00GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2667 v3 @ 3.20GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E5-2650 v2 @ 2.60GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Gold 6142 CPU @ 2.60GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Silver 4110 CPU @ 2.10GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| CPU E3-1270 v3 @ 3.50GHz
+ * Intel\ |reg| Xeon\ |reg| Gold 6134M CPU @ 3.20GHz
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+ * OS:
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+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 8.1
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.6
+ * Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 7.5
+ * Ubuntu 16.04
+ * Centos 8.1
+ * Centos 7.8
+ * Centos 7.7
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+ * upstream kernel:
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+ * Linux 5.3.4
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+ * NICs:
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+ * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-E\ |reg| Series P225p (2x25G)
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+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Firmware version: 214.4.114.0 and above
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+ * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-E\ |reg| Series P425p (4x25G)
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+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Firmware version: 216.4.259.0 and above
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+ * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-E\ |reg| Series P2100G (2x100G)
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+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x16
+ * Firmware version: 216.1.259.0 and above
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+ * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-E\ |reg| Series P425p (4x25G)
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+ * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
+ * Firmware version: 216.1.259.0 and above
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+ * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-E\ |reg| Series P2100G (2x100G)
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+ * Host interface: PCI Express 4.0 x16
+ * Firmware version: 216.1.259.0 and above
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+* Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-S\ |reg| Series SmartNIC
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+ * Broadcom\ |reg| NetXtreme-S\ |reg| Series PS225-H16 SmartNIC (2x25G)
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+ * Host interface: PCI Express 3.0 x8
+ * Firmware version: 217.0.59.0, 218.1.63.0
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+ * Embedded software:
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+ * Broadcom Yocto Linux
+ * Kernel version: 4.14.174
+ * DPDK application running on 8 Arm Cortex-A72 cores