[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: deprecate Xen dom0 support

Tan, Jianfeng jianfeng.tan at intel.com
Thu Aug 3 17:33:30 CEST 2017


Hi Thomas,

On 8/3/2017 7:49 AM, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> Following the calls on the mailing list:
> 	http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-June/068151.html
> The Technical Board decided to drop Xen dom0 support from EAL:
> 	http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-June/068615.html

As dom0 is removed, drivers/net/xenvirt and examples/vhost_xen/ will not 
work any more. Shall we deprecate them also?

Thanks,
Jianfeng

>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> ---
>   doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 2 ++
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 7b1997058..b7fd8049e 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ API and ABI deprecation notices are to be posted here.
>   Deprecation Notices
>   -------------------
>   
> +* eal: the support of Xen dom0 will be removed from EAL in 17.11.
> +
>   * eal: the following functions are deprecated starting from 17.05 and will
>     be removed in 17.11:
>   



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