[PATCH v5 1/3] eal: deprecate old coremask-based EAL parameters

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, May 27, 2025 at 04:29:11PM +0100, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> As the number of cores/cpus on platforms has increased over the years,
> the use of coremasks rather than core-lists for identifying DPDK cores
> has become more and more unwieldy. At this point, let's deprecate the
> coremask-based EAL parameters for future removal, and point users to the
> core-list based versions instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
> ---
ping for review and ack of this patch. Since it's a deprecation of old
functionality, I believe we need multiple acks.

/Bruce