From: Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com> The legacy virtio feature is not architecture agnostics. It relies on x86 IO port scheme support for its working.
The legacy virtio is only the consumer of RTE_KDRV_NONE in DPDK PCI subsystem. Legacy virtio removal will also optimize DPDK PCI enumeration management as it does not need to probe RTE_KDRV_NONE based devices anymore. Legacy virtio feature removal is planned in the v20.11 release. More details at http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/69351/ Cc: maxime.coque...@redhat.com Cc: david.march...@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index cf8b1eb7b..79a03432c 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -107,3 +107,11 @@ Deprecation Notices Python 2 support will be completely removed in 20.11. In 20.08, explicit deprecation warnings will be displayed when running scripts with Python 2. + +* virtio: The legacy virtio feature is not architecture agnostics. + It relies on x86 IO port scheme support for its working. + The legacy virtio is only the consumer of RTE_KDRV_NONE in DPDK PCI subsystem. + Legacy virtio removal will also optimize DPDK PCI enumeration management as + it does not need to probe RTE_KDRV_NONE based devices anymore. + Legacy virtio feature removal is planned in the v20.11 release. + More details at http://patches.dpdk.org/patch/69351/ -- 2.26.2
