doc: announce eventdev ABI change to support DLB PMD

The ABI changes associated with this notification will better support
devices that:
1. Have limits on the number or queues that may be linked to a port
2. Have ports that are limited to exactly one linked queue
3. Are not able to transparently transfer the event flow_id field

Signed-off-by: Timothy McDaniel <timothy.mcdaniel@intel.com>
Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
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@ -151,6 +151,19 @@ Deprecation Notices
to one it means it represents IV, when is set to zero it means J0 is used
directly, in this case 16 bytes of J0 need to be passed.
* eventdev: Following structures will be modified to support DLB PMD
and future extensions:
- ``rte_event_dev_info``
- ``rte_event_dev_config``
- ``rte_event_port_conf``
Patches containing justification, documentation, and proposed modifications
can be found at:
- https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/71457/
- https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/71456/
* rawdev: The rawdev APIs which take a device-specific structure as
parameter directly, or indirectly via a "private" pointer inside another
structure, will be modified to take an additional parameter of the