From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Helin Zhang Subject: [PATCH] doc: announce ABI changes planned for unified packet type Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2015 13:48:19 +0800 Message-ID: <1434520099-14251-1-git-send-email-helin.zhang@intel.com> To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mga09.intel.com (mga09.intel.com [134.134.136.24]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 24BE2C39A for ; Wed, 17 Jun 2015 07:48:27 +0200 (CEST) List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" The significant ABI changes are planned for unified packet type which will be supported from release 2.2. Here announces that ABI changes in detail. Signed-off-by: Helin Zhang --- doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst index f00a6ee..6bbb6ed 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst @@ -38,3 +38,4 @@ Examples of Deprecation Notices Deprecation Notices ------------------- +* Significant ABI changes are planned for struct rte_mbuf, and several PKT_RX_ flags will be removed, to support unified packet type from release 2.2. The upcoming release 2.1 will not have those changes. There is no backward compatibility planned from release 2.2. All binaries will need to be rebuilt from release 2.2. -- 1.9.3