On 3/9/2023 7:07 AM, jer...@marvell.com wrote: > From: Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.com> > > The LiquidIO product line(drivers/net/liquidio) has been substituted with > CN9K/CN10K OCTEON product line smart NICs located in drivers/net/octeon_ep/. > DPDK v20.08 has categorized the LiquidIO driver as UNMAINTAINED > because of the absence of updates in the driver. > Due to the above reasons, the driver will be unavailable from DPDK 23.07. > > Signed-off-by: Jerin Jacob <jer...@marvell.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 872847e938..eb6c3aedd8 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst > @@ -135,3 +135,9 @@ Deprecation Notices > Its removal has been postponed to let potential users report interest > in maintaining it. > In the absence of such interest, this library will be removed in DPDK > 23.11. > + > +* net/liquidio: remove LiquidIO ethdev driver. The LiquidIO product line has > been substituted > + with CN9K/CN10K OCTEON product line smart NICs located in > ``drivers/net/octeon_ep/``. > + DPDK v20.08 has categorized the LiquidIO driver as UNMAINTAINED because of > the absence of > + updates in the driver. Due to the above reasons, the driver will be > unavailable from DPDK 23.07. > +
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yi...@amd.com>
