[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce TILE-Gx removal

Bruce Richardson bruce.richardson at intel.com
Tue Feb 14 12:25:12 CET 2017


On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 08:50:07AM +0000, Mcnamara, John wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Monjalon
> > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2017 10:53 AM
> > To: Zhigang Lu <zlu at ezchip.com>; Liming Sun <lsun at ezchip.com>
> > Cc: dev at dpdk.org
> > Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce TILE-Gx removal
> > 
> > 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 b49e0a0..d40b137 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> > @@ -62,3 +62,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
> >    PMDs that implement the latter.
> >    Target release for removal of the legacy API will be defined once most
> >    PMDs have switched to rte_flow.
> > +
> > +* The architecture TILE-Gx and the associated mpipe driver are not
> > +  maintained and will be removed in 17.05.
> 
> The notification should probably be for removal in 17.08, to one release cycle to respond/fix/update.
> 
> It would also be good to hear from EZChip/Mellanox on this.
> 
> John

If - as seems likely - this deprecation notice makes it into the 17.02
release, I would just ask that the actual removal of the code *not* take
place at the start of the 17.05 release cycle, to be sure to give
further additional grace period for someone to respond to this. I think
it is only fair to wait till just before the RC's are produced to remove
the code, given it is such a drastic step, and the official notice of
removal is only inserted right before 17.02 goes out.

Regards,
/Bruce


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