doc: announce memory hotplug changes

Due to coming changes outlined in memory hotplug RFC, there will
be several API/ABI changes.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Jonas Pfefferle <pepperjo@japf.ch>
Acked-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
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@ -41,6 +41,15 @@ Deprecation Notices
* eal: new ``numa_node_count`` member will be added to ``rte_config`` structure
in v18.05.
* eal: due to internal data layout reorganization, there will be changes to
several structures and functions as a result of coming changes to support
memory hotplug in v18.05.
``rte_eal_get_physmem_layout`` will be deprecated and removed in subsequent
releases.
``rte_mem_config`` contents will change due to switch to memseg lists.
``rte_memzone`` member ``memseg_id`` will no longer serve any useful purpose
and will be removed.
* ethdev: a new Tx and Rx offload API was introduced on 17.11.
In the new API, offloads are divided into per-port and per-queue offloads.
Offloads are disabled by default and enabled per application request.