doc: deprecate Xen support

Following the calls on the mailing list:
	http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-June/068151.html
The Technical Board decided to drop Xen dom0 support from EAL:
	http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-June/068615.html

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index c7fce52..f10c00d 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -29,6 +29,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
   - ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count``
   - ``rte_eal_parse_devargs_str``, replaced by ``rte_eal_devargs_parse``
 
+* eal: the support of Xen dom0 will be removed from EAL in 17.11; and with
+  that, drivers/net/xenvirt and examples/vhost_xen will also be removed.
+
 * The mbuf flags PKT_RX_VLAN_PKT and PKT_RX_QINQ_PKT are deprecated and
   are respectively replaced by PKT_RX_VLAN_STRIPPED and
   PKT_RX_QINQ_STRIPPED, that are better described. The old flags and