From 71668aba90407a75c484098cc8e62fd88737a560 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Richardson Date: Wed, 5 Aug 2020 15:21:41 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of CPU build flags The RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAGS_* macros in DPDK build just duplicate info from the compiler macros, so we can remove them and just use the compiler versions directly. Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson Acked-by: Jerin Jacob Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index fb3547a4e2..52489b5120 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -24,6 +24,11 @@ Deprecation Notices can be got using the ``pip``, or ``pip3``, tool for downloading python packages. +* build macros: The macros defining RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_* will be removed + from the build. The information provided by these macros is available + through standard compiler macros. For example, RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_SSE3 + duplicates the compiler-provided macro __SSE3__. + * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.