[PATCH v2 5/5] doc: remove deprecation notice of SSE in some Intel drivers

Ciara Loftus ciara.loftus at intel.com
Wed Dec 17 15:32:23 CET 2025


The SSE paths in the i40e, iavf and ice Intel drivers have been
removed, so this deprecation notice is no longer required.

Signed-off-by: Ciara Loftus <ciara.loftus at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 --------
 1 file changed, 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 8653d6ca03..ac667e91a6 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -139,11 +139,3 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * bus/vmbus: Starting DPDK 25.11, all the vmbus API defined in
   ``drivers/bus/vmbus/rte_bus_vmbus.h`` will become internal to DPDK.
   Those API functions are used internally by DPDK core and netvsc PMD.
-
-* net/intel: Drivers that have an SSE vector path alongside other vector paths,
-  namely i40e, iavf and ice, will have their SSE vector paths removed in DPDK 25.11.
-  Modern x86 systems all support AVX2, if not AVX-512,
-  so the SSE path is no longer widely used.
-  This change will not result in any feature loss,
-  as the fallback scalar paths which have feature parity with SSE
-  will be used in the cases where the SSE paths would have been used.
-- 
2.43.0



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