[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: announce the removal of legacy virtio support

[jerinj at marvell.com]

From: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>

The legacy virtio feature 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 removal will also optimize DPDK PCI enumeration
management as it does not need to probe RTE_KDRV_NONE based
devices anymore.

Legacy virtio feature removal is planned in the v20.11 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>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index cf8b1eb7b..79a03432c 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -107,3 +107,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
   Python 2 support will be completely removed in 20.11.
   In 20.08, explicit deprecation warnings will be displayed when running
   scripts with Python 2.
+
+* virtio: The legacy virtio feature 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 removal will also optimize DPDK PCI enumeration management as
+  it does not need to probe RTE_KDRV_NONE based devices anymore.
+  Legacy virtio feature removal is planned in the v20.11 release.
+  More details at http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/69351/
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