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From: Sivaprasad Tummala <sivaprasad.tummala@amd.com>
To: <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: <ferruh.yigit@amd.com>, <bruce.richardson@intel.com>,
	<david.marchand@redhat.com>, <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce deprecation of RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2023 03:18:42 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20230712101842.595809-1-sivaprasad.tummala@amd.com> (raw)

To allow new cpu features to be added without ABI breakage,
RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS will be removed in DPDK 23.11 release.

Signed-off-by: Sivaprasad Tummala <sivaprasad.tummala@amd.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 8e1cdd677a..92db59d9c2 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ Deprecation Notices
   the replacement API rte_thread_set_name and rte_thread_create_control being
   marked as stable, and planned to be removed by the 23.11 release.
 
+* eal: RTE_CPUFLAG_NUMFLAGS will be removed in DPDK 23.11 release. This is
+  to allow new cpu features to be added without ABI breakage.
+
 * rte_atomicNN_xxx: These APIs do not take memory order parameter. This does
   not allow for writing optimized code for all the CPU architectures supported
   in DPDK. DPDK has adopted the atomic operations from
-- 
2.34.1


             reply	other threads:[~2023-07-12 10:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-07-12 10:18 Sivaprasad Tummala [this message]
2023-07-12 10:21 ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-07-12 14:51   ` Hemant Agrawal
2023-07-25  8:39 ` Ferruh Yigit
2023-07-25  8:40   ` Bruce Richardson
2023-07-25  9:24   ` Morten Brørup
2023-07-25  9:36   ` Kevin Traynor
2023-07-25 14:18   ` Tyler Retzlaff
2023-07-25 14:24     ` Jerin Jacob
2023-07-25 16:45       ` Hemant Agrawal
2023-07-28 10:11         ` Thomas Monjalon

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