[PATCH v2 01/19] doc: add deprecation notice for VFIO API

Anatoly Burakov
2025-11-14T17:40:45Z

The entirety of VFIO API will be either made internal and only available to
drivers, or will be removed. Add upcoming changes to deprecation notices.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
---
doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 1e60ac4e82..5e3df71048 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -158,3 +158,7 @@ Deprecation Notices
without relying on flow API.
Currently there is no alternative API
providing the same functionality as with ``repr_matching_en`` set to 0.
+
+* eal: The entire VFIO API (``rte_vfio_*``) will be made internal only, and will only be available to EAL and drivers.
+ Group-based API (``rte_vfio_*_group_*``) will be removed and replaced with unified container device assignment API.
+ This change will be made in 26.11 release.
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