[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce removal of Xen Dom0 support

Christian Ehrhardt christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
Thu Jul 28 11:08:16 CEST 2016


Hi Thomas,
just my two cents as Ubuntu DPDK maintainer (and part of the Debian Team
that does the same).

We never enabled CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_XEN_DOM0, we only did LIBRTE_PMD_XENVIRT
based on a user request we had.
That said we won't "take away" anything from anybody and so far had no
request to provide it.
The person that asked for the XEN_PMD was Thiago (set to CC as he might
have an opinion on that).

For me I think it is a good change to drop rather unmaintained parts to
make the rest more stable:
Acked-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>

Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 10:20 AM, Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com
> wrote:

> There were some efforts to fix Xen Dom0 support in 16.07:
>         http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/043823.html
> But there is still at least one bug:
>         http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044207.html
> And nobody cares:
>         http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-July/044376.html
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index f502f86..6b8e9af 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -41,3 +41,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
>  * The mempool functions for single/multi producer/consumer are deprecated
> and
>    will be removed in 16.11.
>    It is replaced by rte_mempool_generic_get/put functions.
> +
> +* The support for Xen Dom0 is broken and seems not to be used.
> +  It will be removed in 16.11.
> --
> 2.7.0
>
>


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