EAL PCI layer is planned to be restructured in 17.05 to unlink it from generic structures like eth_driver, rte_cryptodev_driver, and also move it into a PCI Bus.
Signed-off-by: Shreyansh Jain <shreyansh.j...@nxp.com> --- doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst index fbe2fcb..b12d435 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -13,10 +13,14 @@ Deprecation Notices has exposed, like the way we have done with uio-pci-generic. This change targets release 17.05. -* ``eth_driver`` is planned to be removed in 17.02. This currently serves as - a placeholder for PMDs to register themselves. Changes for ``rte_bus`` will - provide a way to handle device initialization currently being done in - ``eth_driver``. +* ABI/API changes are planned for 17.05 for PCI subsystem. This is to + unlink EAL dependency on PCI and to move PCI devices to a PCI specific + bus. + +* ``rte_pci_driver`` is planned to be removed from ``eth_driver`` in 17.05. + This is to unlink the ethernet driver from PCI dependencies. + Similarly, ``rte_pci_driver`` in planned to be removed from + ``rte_cryptodev_driver`` in 17.05. * In 17.02 ABI changes are planned: the ``rte_eth_dev`` structure will be extended with new function pointer ``tx_pkt_prepare`` allowing verification -- 2.7.4
