RE: [EXTERNAL] [PATCH] doc: announce cryptodev changes to offload RSA in VirtIO

[Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>]

> Announce cryptodev changes to offload RSA asymmetric operation in
> VirtIO PMD.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan <gmuthukrishn@marvell.com>
> --
> RFC:
>   https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230928095300.1353-2-gmuthukrishn@marvell.com/
>   https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/patch/20230928095300.1353-3-gmuthukrishn@marvell.com/
> ---
Acked-by: Akhil Goyal <gakhil@marvell.com>

>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> index 6948641ff6..26fec84aba 100644
> --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
> @@ -147,3 +147,14 @@ Deprecation Notices
>    will be deprecated and subsequently removed in DPDK 24.11 release.
>    Before this, the new port library API (functions rte_swx_port_*)
>    will gradually transition from experimental to stable status.
> +
> +* cryptodev: The struct rte_crypto_rsa_padding will be moved from
> +  rte_crypto_rsa_op_param struct to rte_crypto_rsa_xform struct,
> +  breaking ABI. The new location is recommended to comply with
> +  virtio-crypto specification. Applications and drivers using
> +  this struct will be updated.
> +
> +* cryptodev: The rte_crypto_rsa_xform struct member to hold private key
> +  in either exponent or quintuple format is changed from union to struct
> +  data type. This change is to support ASN.1 syntax (RFC 3447 Appendix A.1.2).
> +  This change will not break existing applications.
> --
> 2.21.0