From 3db5b0d517672c918368b8b0b9cbe4ddde5cc0f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan@intel.com> Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 20:38:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] 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> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) 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 -- 2.39.5