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doc: announce removal of non-kernel based PCI probing

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In order to optimize the DPDK PCI enumeration management, RTE_KDRV_NONE
based device driver probing will be removed in v20.08.
The legacy virtio is the only consumer of RTE_KDRV_NONE based
device  driver probe scheme.
The legacy virtio support will be available through existing VFIO/UIO
based kernel driver scheme.
More details at https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/69351/

Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj@marvell.com>
Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
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@ -141,3 +141,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
Python 2 support will be completely removed in 20.11.
In 20.08, explicit deprecation warnings will be displayed when running
scripts with Python 2.
* pci: Remove ``RTE_KDRV_NONE`` based device driver probing.
In order to optimize the DPDK PCI enumeration management, ``RTE_KDRV_NONE``
based device driver probing will be removed in v20.08.
The legacy virtio is the only consumer of ``RTE_KDRV_NONE`` based device
driver probe scheme. The legacy virtio support will be available through
the existing VFIO/UIO based kernel driver scheme.
More details at https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/69351/