Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v1] bbdev: remove experimental tag from API

[Kinsella, Ray]

On 01/09/2021 04:52, Hemant Agrawal wrote:
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>> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 6:27 PM Nicolas Chautru
>> <nicolas.chau...@intel.com> wrote:
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>>> This was previously suggested last year
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>>> but there was request from community to wait another year to confirm
>> formally this api is mature.
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>> The request was to wait for a new vendor (i.e. non Intel) to implement a
>> bbdev driver for their hw.
>>
>> NXP proposed a driver for this class:
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>> What is the status of this driver?
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> [Hemant]  We are in process of resending the patches in next few days. 

Ok - just so we are clear - the net-net of that, is that the bbdev APIs will be 
'experimental'
for another year, right?

> 
>> I see no update on the bbdev API, which seems good, but a confirmation is
>> needed.
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Marchand
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