doc: announce deprecation of dpaa2 exposed mem structure
authorShreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Thu, 15 Nov 2018 13:29:27 +0000 (13:29 +0000)
committerThomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Sat, 24 Nov 2018 17:24:24 +0000 (18:24 +0100)
rte_dpaa2_memsegs is no more required once the dpaax (pa-va) translation
library has been introduced. This can be made internal (for fallback
operations) in subsequent release.

Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.jain@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst

index edcd71d..08557b9 100644 (file)
@@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ Deprecation Notices
   - ``eal_parse_pci_DomBDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
   - ``rte_eal_compare_pci_addr`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_cmp``
 
+* dpaa2: removal of ``rte_dpaa2_memsegs`` structure which has been replaced
+  by a pa-va search library. This structure was earlier being used for holding
+  memory segments used by dpaa2 driver for faster pa->va translation. This
+  structure would be made internal (or removed if all dependencies are cleared)
+  in future releases.
+
 * mbuf: The opaque ``mbuf->hash.sched`` field will be updated to support generic
   definition in line with the ethdev TM and MTR APIs. Currently, this field
   is defined in librte_sched in a non-generic way. The new generic format