[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce ABI change to support VF representors

[Boccassi, Luca]

On Wed, 2018-02-14 at 14:32 +0200, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> This is following the RFC being discussed and targets 18.05
> 
> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-January/085716.html
> 
> Cc: declan.doherty at intel.com
> Cc: mohammad.abdul.awal at intel.com
> Cc: ferruh.yigit at intel.com
> Cc: remy.horton at intel.com
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>
> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index d59ad5988..f6151de63 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -59,3 +59,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    be added between the producer and consumer structures. The size of
> the
>    structure and the offset of the fields will remain the same on
>    platforms with 64B cache line, but will change on other platforms.
> +
> +* ethdev: A work is being planned for 18.05 to expose VF port
> representors
> +  as a mean to perform control and data path operation on the
> different VFs.
> +  As VF representor is an ethdev port, new fields are needed in
> order to map
> +  between the VF representor and the VF or the parent PF. Those new
> fields
> +  are to be included in ``rte_eth_dev_info`` struct.

Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi at intl.att.com>
Acked-by: Alex Zelezniak <alexz at att.com>

Acking on behalf of my colleague Alex as well, who replied privately.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi