From 96a4ca7d0583e5060027589bf9cc86a947a047bf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jerin Jacob Date: Mon, 25 May 2020 13:45:41 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce removal of non-kernel based PCI 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 existing VFIO/UIO based kernel driver scheme. More details at https://patches.dpdk.org/patch/69351/ Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob Acked-by: Maxime Coquelin Acked-by: Olivier Matz Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index de4f0bfc09..3d4f53f401 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -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/