[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: deprecate Xen support

Jianfeng Tan jianfeng.tan at intel.com
Thu Aug 3 22:38:10 CEST 2017


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

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
Signed-off-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.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 f6bd910..9edd85d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ 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; and with
+  that, drivers/net/xenvirt and examples/vhost_xen will also be removed.
+
 * eal: the following functions are deprecated starting from 17.05 and will
   be removed in 17.08:
 
-- 
2.7.4



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