Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce end of support for some Broadcom devices

[Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>]

On 03/11/2020 17:26, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 2:50 AM Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Ajit,
>>
>> On 26/10/2020 21:46, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
>>> Devices belonging to BCM573xx and BCM5740x family will not be supported
>>> from the 21.02 release.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.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 2e082499b8..f1fce4210d 100644
>>> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
>>> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
>>> @@ -166,3 +166,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
>>>    ``make``. Given environments are too much variables for such a simple script,
>>>    it will be removed in DPDK 20.11.
>>>    Some useful parts may be converted into specific scripts.
>>> +
>>> +* Broadcom bnxt PMD: NetXtreme devices belonging to the ``BCM573xx and
>>> +  BCM5740x`` families will no longer be supported as of DPDK 21.02.
>>> +  Specifically the support for the following Broadcom PCI ids will be removed
>>> +  from the release: ``0x16c8, 0x16c9, 0x16ca, 0x16ce, 0x16cf, 0x16df,``
>>> +  ``0x16d0, 0x16d1, 0x16d2, 0x16d4, 0x16d5, 0x16e7, 0x16e8, 0x16e9``.
>>>
>>
>> It might be worth adding to the bnxt.rst section about these NICs, as
>> there is no hint that they are deprecated for a user reading that.
> Thanks Kevin.
> I will add that when the support is really removed.
> 
> Since the deprecation is not really planned for 20.11 I think it is not really
> needed for now?
> 

Ok, it's the correct section for it, so I won't argue.

>>
>> Where I'm not clear is about 20.11. It will be an LTS, will they be
>> supported for the lifetime of 20.11 on the 20.11 branch?
> 20.11 will have the support. The deprecation is planned for 21.02.
> 

Right, I'm just concerned about it getting broken in say 20.11.2 because
of backports to the driver. Once it's in 20.11, it should continue to
work in 20.11.x releases which will be for 2 years.

Anyway, that is a side issue to this patch for deprecation, so,

Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>

> Thanks
> Ajit
> 
>>
>> Kevin.
>>