From 8acc3ce08847aa048ceac302b34fe2bae1bafd5a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Monjalon Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2016 18:35:46 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce ivshmem support removal There was a prior call with an explanation of what needs to be done: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-June/040844.html - Qemu patch upstreamed - IVSHMEM PCI device managed by a PCI driver - No DPDK objects (ring/mempool) allocated by EAL As nobody seems interested, it is time to remove this code which makes EAL improvements harder. Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: David Marchand Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin Acked-by: Jan Viktorin Acked-by: Christian Ehrhardt --- 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 d1067ba5dc..f16b61b7ed 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -54,6 +54,9 @@ Deprecation Notices will be removed in 16.11. It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions. +* The ``rte_ivshmem`` feature (including library and EAL code) will be removed + in 16.11 because it has some design issues which are not planned to be fixed. + * Driver names are quite inconsistent among each others and they will be renamed to something more consistent (net and crypto prefixes) in 16.11. Some of these driver names are used publicly, to create virtual devices, -- 2.20.1