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    "date": "2020-03-11T23:01:33",
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        "From": "Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>",
        "To": "dev@dpdk.org",
        "Cc": "rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com, qi.z.zhang@intel.com, xiao.w.wang@intel.com,\n xavier.huwei@huawei.com, beilei.xing@intel.com, wenzhuo.lu@intel.com,\n qiming.yang@intel.com, konstantin.ananyev@intel.com,\n ferruh.yigit@intel.com, jerinj@marvell.com, rmody@marvell.com,\n shshaikh@marvell.com, maxime.coquelin@redhat.com, xiaolong.ye@intel.com",
        "Date": "Thu, 12 Mar 2020 00:01:33 +0100",
        "Message-Id": "<20200311230136.63452-1-thomas@monjalon.net>",
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        "Subject": "[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] refresh NIC features matrix",
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    "content": "This series aims to clean-up the big table of ethdev features:\n  http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/nics/overview.html#id1\n\nWe could reorganize the information in this table,\nmaybe split it or add/remove some rows.\nBefore going to such reorganization, we should clean it up.\n\nThe first patch is fixing the look & size of the table with recent sphinx.\n\nThe second and third patches are removing 8 columns which are\nclearly unneeded:\n  - bnx2x_vf\n  - bonding\n  - kni\n  - nfp_vf\n  - null\n  - ring\n  - softnic\n  - vdev_netvsc\n\nMore columns can be removed by merging PF/VF and vector datapaths.\nIf a feature cannot be supported in all cases, it should be marked\nas partially supported (P).\nIf a feature is PF-specific (like flow control), that's OK to mark\nit fully supported because it's obviously impossible for VF.\nThere are also some features which were probably marked in some\ncolumns and missed in its VF or vector counterpart.\nPlease work to merge and drop these 16 columns:\n  - cxgbevf\n  - fm10k_vf\n  - hns3_vf\n  - i40e_vec\n  - i40e_vf\n  - i40e_vf_vec\n  - iavf_vec\n  - ice_vec\n  - igb_vf\n  - ixgbe_vec\n  - ixgbe_vf\n  - ixgbe_vf_vec\n  - octeontx2_vec\n  - octeontx2_vf\n  - qede_vf\n  - virtio_vec\n\nThe total gain is to reduce the table size from 71 to 47 columns.\n\nPlease send patches for Chelsio, Huawei, Intel, Marvell and virtio.\n\n\nThomas Monjalon (3):\n  doc: fix matrix CSS for recent sphinx\n  doc: remove empty columns from NIC features matrix\n  doc: remove similar columns from NIC features matrix\n\n doc/guides/conf.py                       | 16 +++++++++----\n doc/guides/nics/features/bnx2x.ini       |  1 +\n doc/guides/nics/features/bnx2x_vf.ini    | 18 ---------------\n doc/guides/nics/features/bonding.ini     |  6 -----\n doc/guides/nics/features/kni.ini         |  7 ------\n doc/guides/nics/features/nfp_vf.ini      | 29 ------------------------\n doc/guides/nics/features/null.ini        |  6 -----\n doc/guides/nics/features/ring.ini        |  6 -----\n doc/guides/nics/features/softnic.ini     |  9 --------\n doc/guides/nics/features/vdev_netvsc.ini | 12 ----------\n 10 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 97 deletions(-)\n delete mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/features/bnx2x_vf.ini\n delete mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/features/bonding.ini\n delete mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/features/kni.ini\n delete mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/features/nfp_vf.ini\n delete mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/features/null.ini\n delete mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/features/ring.ini\n delete mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/features/softnic.ini\n delete mode 100644 doc/guides/nics/features/vdev_netvsc.ini"
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