[PATCH v2 1/2] doc: add deprecation notice for VFIO API

[Anatoly Burakov]

The entirety of VFIO API will be either made internal and only available to
drivers, or will be removed. Add upcoming changes to deprecation notices.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov at intel.com>
Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index ac667e91a6..a94691daf6 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -139,3 +139,7 @@ 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.
+
+* eal: The entire VFIO API (``rte_vfio_*``) will be made internal only, and will only be available to EAL and drivers.
+  Group-based API (``rte_vfio_*_group_*``) will be removed and replaced with unified container device assignment API.
+  This change will be made in 26.11 release.
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