X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fguides%2Frel_notes%2Frelease_20_02.rst;h=6d43cd998bc0f4532873010bdbe9f62dd679d4ec;hb=95276abaaf0a3e605e99a306f1923f46c3037a64;hp=01bde80c274306e410a42fd356eae8b2934531c6;hpb=e98dc331e999ec84fda34613e8bd395932ce915f;p=dpdk.git diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst index 01bde80c27..6d43cd998b 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_02.rst @@ -61,14 +61,93 @@ New Features A new API has been added to wait for a memory location to be updated with a 16-bit, 32-bit, 64-bit value. +* **Updated rte_flow api to support L2TPv3 over IP flows.** + + Added support for new flow item to handle L2TPv3 over IP rte_flow patterns. + +* **Added IONIC net PMD.** + + Added the new ``ionic`` net driver for Pensando Ethernet Network Adapters. + See the :doc:`../nics/ionic` NIC guide for more details on this new driver. + +* **Updated Hisilicon hns3 driver.** + + Updated Hisilicon hns3 driver with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added support for Rx interrupt. + * Added support setting VF MAC address by PF driver. + +* **Updated the Intel ice driver.** + + Updated the Intel ice driver with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added support for MAC rules on specific port. + * Added support for MAC/VLAN with TCP/UDP in switch rule. + * Added support for 1/10G device. + +* **Updated Intel iavf driver.** + + Updated iavf PMD with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added more supported device IDs. + * Updated virtual channel to latest AVF spec. + +* **Updated Intel i40e driver.** + + Updated i40e PMD with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added support for L2TPv3 over IP profiles which can be programmed by the + dynamic device personalization (DDP) process. + * Added support for ESP-AH profiles which can be programmed by the + dynamic device personalization (DDP) process. + * Added PF support Malicious Device Drive event catch and notify. + * Added LLDP support. + * Extended PHY access AQ cmd. + * Added support for reading LPI counters. + * Added support for Energy Efficient Ethernet + +* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.** + + Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver with new features and improvements, including: + + * Added support for RSS using L3/L4 source/destination only. + * Added support for matching on GTP tunnel header item. + +* **Add new vDPA PMD based on Mellanox devices** + + Added a new Mellanox vDPA (``mlx5_vdpa``) PMD. + See the :doc:`../vdpadevs/mlx5` guide for more details on this driver. + +* **Updated testpmd application.** + + Added support for ESP and L2TPv3 over IP rte_flow patterns to the testpmd + application. + * **Added algorithms to cryptodev API.** - * Chacha20-Poly1305 AEAD algorithm can now be supported in cryptodev. * ECDSA (Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm) is added to asymmetric crypto library specifications. * ECPM (Elliptic Curve Point Multiplication) is added to asymmetric crypto library specifications. +* **Added handling of mixed algorithms in encrypted digest requests in QAT PMD.** + + Added handling of mixed algorithms in encrypted digest hash-cipher + (generation) and cipher-hash (verification) requests (e.g. SNOW3G + ZUC or + ZUC + AES CTR) in QAT PMD possible when running on GEN3 QAT hardware. + Such algorithm combinations are not supported on GEN1/GEN2 hardware + and executing the request returns RTE_CRYPTO_OP_STATUS_INVALID_SESSION. + +* **Added Marvell OCTEON TX2 End Point rawdev PMD.** + + Added a new OCTEON TX2 rawdev PMD for End Point mode of operation. + See the :doc:`../rawdevs/octeontx2_ep` for more details on this new PMD. + +* **Added event mode to l3fwd sample application.** + + Add event device support for ``l3fwd`` sample application. It demonstrates + usage of poll and event mode IO mechanism under a single application. + Removed Items ------------- @@ -82,6 +161,12 @@ Removed Items Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= +* **Disabled building all the Linux kernel modules by default.** + + In order to remove the build time dependency with Linux kernel, + the Technical Board decided to disable all the kernel modules + by default from 20.02 version. + API Changes -----------