doc: add SW eventdev PMD to release notes

Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Hunt <david.hunt@intel.com>

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst
index d468e5b..86d2bd0 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_05.rst
@@ -188,6 +188,13 @@ New Features
   and applications are free to choose whatever model
   (or combination of the two) that best suits their needs.
 
+* **Added Software Eventdev PMD.**
+
+  Added support for the software eventdev PMD. The software eventdev is a
+  software based scheduler device that implements the eventdev API. This
+  PMD allows an application to configure a pipeline using the eventdev
+  library, and run the scheduling workload on a CPU core.
+
 
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