NXP is planning to introduce following features/changes in DPDK 18.02 release
Introduce raw-device Support: A generic device library for representing accelerators and IP blocks and exposing some generic APIs. This can enable various other non-standard devices to be deployed over DPDK framework. NXP plan to use it for several of it's accelerator devices. Crypto eventdev support: Introduce Crypto PMD (dpaa and dpaa2) with crypto adapter implementation for eventdev. Mempool enhancements to combine dpaa and dpaa2 configs into one. Ethdev : add support to check optimal driver packet burst size capability. IOVA mode : enable virtual address support in DPAA2 PMDs DPAA SEC : add RTE Security Protocol offload support DPAA2 eventdev : add support for ordered and atomic queues. DPAA eventdev: introduce eventdev driver with ethernet adapter implementation.
