[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce the deprecation of legacy virtio support

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Mon May 25 01:44:00 CEST 2020


23/05/2020 16:07, jerinj at marvell.com:
> From: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>
> 
> The legacy virtio is not architecture agnostics.
> It relies on x86 IO port scheme support for its working.
> The legacy virtio is only the consumer of RTE_KDRV_NONE in the DPDK
> PCI subsystem. Legacy virtio deprecation will also optimize DPDK PCI
> enumeration management as it does not need to probe RTE_KDRV_NONE based
> devices anymore.
> 
> Deprecation is planned for v20.08 release.
> 
> More details at http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/69351/
> 
> Cc: maxime.coquelin at redhat.com
> Cc: david.marchand at redhat.com
> Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>
> ---
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +* virtio: The legacy virtio is not architecture agnostics.
> +  It relies on x86 IO port scheme support for its working.
> +  The legacy virtio is only the consumer of RTE_KDRV_NONE in DPDK PCI subsystem.
> +  Legacy virtio deprecation will also optimize DPDK PCI enumeration management as
> +  it does not need to probe RTE_KDRV_NONE based devices anymore.
> +  Deprecation is planned for v20.08 release.

What means deprecation exactly?
When the feature is going to be removed?

> +  More details at http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/69351/





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