[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/1] doc: add deprecation notice for CPU build flags

[Jerin Jacob]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2020 at 7:52 PM Bruce Richardson
<bruce.richardson at intel.com> wrote:
>
> The RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAGS_* macros in DPDK build just duplicate info from
> the compiler macros, so we can remove them and just use the compiler
> versions directly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

Acked-by: Jerin Jacob <jerinj at marvell.com>



> ---
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index ea4cfa7a4..68a63f345 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -17,6 +17,11 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    can be got using the ``pip``, or ``pip3``, tool for downloading python
>    packages.
>
> +* build macros: The macros defining RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_* will be removed
> +  from the build. The information provided by these macros is available
> +  through standard compiler macros. For example, RTE_MACHINE_CPUFLAG_SSE3
> +  duplicates the compiler-provided macro __SSE3__.
> +
>  * kvargs: The function ``rte_kvargs_process`` will get a new parameter
>    for returning key match count. It will ease handling of no-match case.
>
> --
> 2.25.1
>