From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: John McNamara Subject: [PATCH v2 7/7] abi: announce mbuf addition for ieee1588 in DPDK 2.2 Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 14:42:24 +0100 Message-ID: <1435585344-26652-8-git-send-email-john.mcnamara@intel.com> References: <1435585344-26652-1-git-send-email-john.mcnamara@intel.com> To: dev@dpdk.org Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A09BC49C for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:42:38 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <1435585344-26652-1-git-send-email-john.mcnamara@intel.com> 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" Add announcement of a dedicated additional field in the mbuf to support ieee1588 in DPDK 2.2. Signed-off-by: John McNamara --- doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst index f00a6ee..51dacb2 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/abi.rst @@ -38,3 +38,8 @@ Examples of Deprecation Notices Deprecation Notices ------------------- + +* In DPDK 2.1 the IEEE1588/802.1AS support in the i40e driver makes use of the + ``udata64`` field in the mbuf to pass the timesync register index to the + user. In DPDK 2.2 this will be moved to a new field in the mbuf. + -- 1.8.1.4