23/05/2020 16:07, [email protected]: > From: Jerin Jacob <[email protected]> > > 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: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <[email protected]> > --- > --- 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/
