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Added deprecation notice to replace rte_meter_color with rte_color. Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com> Acked-by: Cristian Dumitrescu <cristian.dumitrescu@intel.com> Acked-by: Jasvinder Singh <jasvinder.singh@intel.com> Acked-by: Mohammad Abdul Awal <mohammad.abdul.awal@intel.com>
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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
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Copyright 2018 The DPDK contributors
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ABI and API Deprecation
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=======================
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See the :doc:`guidelines document for details of the ABI policy </contributing/versioning>`.
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API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here.
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Deprecation Notices
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-------------------
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* meson: The minimum supported version of meson for configuring and building
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DPDK will be increased to v0.47.1 (from 0.41) from DPDK 19.05 onwards. For
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those users with a version earlier than 0.47.1, an updated copy of meson
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can be got using the ``pip``, or ``pip3``, tool for downloading python
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packages.
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* kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
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for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.
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* eal: The ``attr_value`` parameter of ``rte_service_attr_get()``
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will be changed from ``uint32_t *`` to ``uint64_t *``
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as the attributes are of type ``uint64_t``.
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* eal: both declaring and identifying devices will be streamlined in v18.11.
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New functions will appear to query a specific port from buses, classes of
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device and device drivers. Device declaration will be made coherent with the
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new scheme of device identification.
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As such, ``rte_devargs`` device representation will change.
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- The enum ``rte_devtype`` was used to identify a bus and will disappear.
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- Functions previously deprecated will change or disappear:
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+ ``rte_eal_devargs_type_count``
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* pci: Several exposed functions are misnamed.
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The following functions are deprecated starting from v17.11 and are replaced:
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- ``eal_parse_pci_BDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
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- ``eal_parse_pci_DomBDF`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_parse``
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- ``rte_eal_compare_pci_addr`` replaced by ``rte_pci_addr_cmp``
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* dpaa2: removal of ``rte_dpaa2_memsegs`` structure which has been replaced
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by a pa-va search library. This structure was earlier being used for holding
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memory segments used by dpaa2 driver for faster pa->va translation. This
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structure would be made internal (or removed if all dependencies are cleared)
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in future releases.
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* ethdev: the legacy filter API, including
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``rte_eth_dev_filter_supported()``, ``rte_eth_dev_filter_ctrl()`` as well
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as filter types MACVLAN, ETHERTYPE, FLEXIBLE, SYN, NTUPLE, TUNNEL, FDIR,
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HASH and L2_TUNNEL, is superseded by the generic flow API (rte_flow) in
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PMDs that implement the latter.
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Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
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PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
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* ethdev: Maximum and minimum MTU values vary between hardware devices. In
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hardware agnostic DPDK applications access to such information would allow
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a more accurate way of validating and setting supported MTU values on a per
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device basis rather than using a defined default for all devices. To
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resolve this, the following members will be added to ``rte_eth_dev_info``.
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Note: these can be added to fit a hole in the existing structure for amd64
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but not for 32-bit, as such ABI change will occur as size of the structure
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will increase.
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- Member ``uint16_t min_mtu`` the minimum MTU allowed.
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- Member ``uint16_t max_mtu`` the maximum MTU allowed.
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* meter: New ``rte_color`` definition will be added in 19.02 and that will
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replace ``enum rte_meter_color`` in meter library in 19.05. This will help
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to consolidate color definition, which is currently replicated in many places,
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such as: rte_meter.h, rte_mtr.h, rte_tm.h.
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* crypto/aesni_mb: the minimum supported intel-ipsec-mb library version will be
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changed from 0.49.0 to 0.52.0.
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