[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: deprecation notice to remove LiquidIO ethdev driver

[jerinj at marvell.com]

From: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>

The LiquidIO product line(drivers/net/liquidio) has been substituted with
CN9K/CN10K OCTEON product line smart NICs located in drivers/net/octeon_ep/.
DPDK v20.08 has categorized the LiquidIO driver as UNMAINTAINED
because of the absence of updates in the driver.
Due to the above reasons, the driver will be unavailable from DPDK 23.07.

Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 872847e938..eb6c3aedd8 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -135,3 +135,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
   Its removal has been postponed to let potential users report interest
   in maintaining it.
   In the absence of such interest, this library will be removed in DPDK 23.11.
+
+* net/liquidio: remove LiquidIO ethdev driver. The LiquidIO product line has been substituted
+  with CN9K/CN10K OCTEON product line smart NICs located in ``drivers/net/octeon_ep/``.
+  DPDK v20.08 has categorized the LiquidIO driver as UNMAINTAINED because of the absence of
+  updates in the driver. Due to the above reasons, the driver will be unavailable from DPDK 23.07.
+ 
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