From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DD85CF3187 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:35:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mails.dpdk.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4506A402E3; Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:35:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from mgamail.intel.com (mgamail.intel.com [192.198.163.7]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50F9540262 for ; Wed, 19 Nov 2025 11:35:42 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1763548543; x=1795084543; h=from:to:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to:references: mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=wmw1PBcaFC2IZuzJgWW2eOM7ISzcfdsAhqTUdvRQbu8=; b=fZud/C7LDYCNZKRJdedVC7iVPzIKy00mjj0lF7YAb/pyU87txEpTVyXC 1d06KkCYaLNpbeN74FbCPiZ4weIJJuBF+iMv6m6jatL6w/E/c6kHi8E1S cyHprgqpNCjpjcbrGvXIGQAph4ZgFS/6BMG06gvDqtHs7qgafU+nl0NDD /6P+H0ABMSfvD8k36qdbCe5GNAWe0WYhcyCmQI5MQiqXqtyJeKJBytefv feKyvbCXSVfTJCfT9qxYLWw0xugtDvk+7EC4R/eLd8OzBm9Wwe6xK4JBx bC4O3v0/GsJMoTnd94upy7fLTo7ELtHV8I53Mw1AyZc5vXCXR4prJIgip A==; X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: m/aOo+bsR6yJUSCCGNL5JQ== X-CSE-MsgGUID: Rl51BjlNTwu/3ubCtoO9JA== X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6800,10657,11617"; a="91060581" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.19,315,1754982000"; d="scan'208";a="91060581" Received: from orviesa009.jf.intel.com ([10.64.159.149]) by fmvoesa101.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 19 Nov 2025 02:35:42 -0800 X-CSE-ConnectionGUID: 3dB7KzkCREWUr3H5RwFRnw== X-CSE-MsgGUID: 9WjioN7RSQePU989Valr7g== X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="6.19,315,1754982000"; d="scan'208";a="190816845" Received: from silpixa00401119.ir.intel.com ([10.20.224.206]) by orviesa009.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 19 Nov 2025 02:35:41 -0800 From: Anatoly Burakov To: dev@dpdk.org Subject: [PATCH v1 1/2] doc: add deprecation notice for VFIO API Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2025 10:35:37 +0000 Message-ID: <3c36c80d14d463815c6f09e58fd45638831e82d8.1763548356.git.anatoly.burakov@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.47.3 In-Reply-To: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org 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 --- 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 8653d6ca03..55d3837150 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst @@ -147,3 +147,7 @@ Deprecation Notices This change will not result in any feature loss, as the fallback scalar paths which have feature parity with SSE will be used in the cases where the SSE paths would have been used. + +* 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. -- 2.47.3