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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, bruce.richardson@intel.com, ferruh.yigit@intel.com,
	jerinj@marvell.com, hemant.agrawal@nxp.com,
	david.marchand@redhat.com, honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com,
	ktraynor@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: announce end of support for some Broadcom devices
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 2020 21:15:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2554161.uxYnmSoOKH@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACZ4nhv08USr-c9YNaLWNayT6SwaYj79VTR0S8=jMna0D5YmNw@mail.gmail.com>

20/11/2020 18:30, Ajit Khaparde:
> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 12:59 PM Ajit Khaparde
> <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 11:22 AM Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >
> > Yes. Thanks. We will keep the lights on for the LTS releases.
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Anyway, that is a side issue to this patch for deprecation, so,
> >>
> >> Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor@redhat.com>
> 
> Thomas, Can you please pick this? Thanks

Usually we wait for 3 acks for deprecation.
It has been discussed in the techboard, so I prefer getting some acks
reflecting the discussion, please.



  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-22 20:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-26 21:46 Ajit Khaparde
2020-11-03 10:50 ` Kevin Traynor
2020-11-03 17:26   ` Ajit Khaparde
2020-11-06 19:22     ` Kevin Traynor
2020-11-06 20:59       ` Ajit Khaparde
2020-11-20 17:30         ` Ajit Khaparde
2020-11-22 20:15           ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2020-11-23 14:56             ` Ajit Khaparde
2020-11-24 15:34 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-11-25  8:48   ` Jerin Jacob
2020-11-26 11:31     ` Bruce Richardson
2020-11-26 16:52       ` Thomas Monjalon

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