[PATCH v1 0/2] Deprecation notices for VFIO

[PATCH v1 0/2] Deprecation notices for VFIO

[Anatoly Burakov]

There's ongoing work to rework VFIO in DPDK [1]. These deprecation
notices originally were part of that patchset, but were split off
to easy review and acceptance.

[1] https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=36746

Anatoly Burakov (2):
  doc: add deprecation notice for VFIO API
  doc: add deprecation notice for vDPA driver API

 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

-- 
2.47.3

[PATCH v1 1/2] doc: add deprecation notice for VFIO API

[Anatoly Burakov]

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 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

[PATCH v1 2/2] doc: add deprecation notice for vDPA driver API

[Anatoly Burakov]

Currently, vDPA driver API is partly built around VFIO group API, which
will be removed in a future release and replaced with a device container
assignment API. Make this know in deprecation notice.

Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
index 55d3837150..b63dc8b715 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst
@@ -151,3 +151,6 @@ Deprecation Notices
 * 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.
+
+* vdpa: vDPA driver API will no longer offer ``get_vfio_group_fd`` as part of its internal API.
+  All drivers will be adjusted to use the new unified VFIO container device assignment API.
-- 
2.47.3

Re: [PATCH v1 0/2] Deprecation notices for VFIO

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 10:35:36AM +0000, Anatoly Burakov wrote:
> There's ongoing work to rework VFIO in DPDK [1]. These deprecation
> notices originally were part of that patchset, but were split off
> to easy review and acceptance.
> 
> [1] https://patches.dpdk.org/project/dpdk/list/?series=36746
> 
> Anatoly Burakov (2):
>   doc: add deprecation notice for VFIO API
>   doc: add deprecation notice for vDPA driver API
> 
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/deprecation.rst | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>
Series-acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>