From a968ad4d09fcd175d3a6e2ca99ca1c97e33ee3d4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Monjalon Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2017 15:44:48 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] doc: notify x86 SSE4.2 requirement in release notes Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: Bruce Richardson --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst index c3554761ce..a793dfe946 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_17_08.rst @@ -41,6 +41,11 @@ New Features Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= +* **Bumped minimal x86 ISA to SSE4.2.** + + Starting with version 17.08, DPDK requires SSE4.2 to run on x86. + Previous versions required SSE3. + * **Added Service Core functionality.** The service core functionality added to EAL allows DPDK to run services such -- 2.20.1