From: Jianfeng Tan Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 20:38:10 +0000 (+0000) Subject: doc: deprecate Xen support X-Git-Tag: spdx-start~2196 X-Git-Url: http://git.droids-corp.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3db5b0d517672c918368b8b0b9cbe4ddde5cc0f9;p=dpdk.git 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 Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan Acked-by: John McNamara Acked-by: Jerin Jacob Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler --- diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index c7fce52ec2..f10c00da6f 100644 --- 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