[v2,6/6] doc: new net PMD iavf_be

diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index bca206ba8f..5faf093571 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -707,6 +707,12 @@  F: drivers/net/iavf/
 F: drivers/common/iavf/
 F: doc/guides/nics/features/iavf*.ini
 
+Intel iavf_be
+M: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
+T: git://dpdk.org/next/dpdk-next-net-intel
+F: drivers/net/iavf_be/
+F: doc/guides/nics/features/iavf_be*.ini
+
 Intel ice
 M: Qiming Yang <qiming.yang@intel.com>
 M: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/features/iavf_be.ini b/doc/guides/nics/features/iavf_be.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8528695d00
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+++ b/doc/guides/nics/features/iavf_be.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ 
+;
+; Supported features of the 'iavf_be' network poll mode driver.
+;
+; Refer to default.ini for the full list of available PMD features.
+;
+[Features]
+Promiscuous mode     = Y
+Allmulticast mode    = Y
+Basic stats          = Y
+Scattered Rx         = Y
+x86-64               = Y
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/iavf_be.rst b/doc/guides/nics/iavf_be.rst
new file mode 100644
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@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@ 
+..  SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
+    Copyright(c) 2020 Intel Corporation.
+
+Poll Mode Driver for Emulated Backend of Intel® AVF
+===================================================
+
+Intel® AVF is an Ethernet SR-IOV Virtual Function with the same
+device id (8086:1889) on different Intel Ethernet Controller.
+
+Emulated Backend of Intel® AVF is software emulated device to provide
+IAVF compatible layout and acceleartion to the consumer who is using IAVF.
+The communication is using vfio-user protocol as transport mechanism.
+While, the Backend PMD driver is based on *librte_vfio_user* and *librte_emudev* libraries.
+
+PMD arguments
+-------------
+
+Below devargs are provided to setup iavf_be device in DPDK:
+
+#.  ``emu``:
+
+    The emudev name it depends on.
+    (required)
+
+#.  ``mac``:
+
+    It is the MAC address assigned to it, and Front End device would consider it as its default MAC. If no set, driver would take a random one.
+    (optional)
+
+Set up an iavf_be interface
+---------------------------
+
+The following example will set up an iavf_be interface in DPDK:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+    --vdev emu_iavf0,sock=/tmp/to/socket/emu_iavf0,queues=4 --vdev net_iavfbe0,emu=emu_iavf0,mac=00:11:22:33:44:55
+
+Features and Limitations of iavf_be PMD
+---------------------------------------
+Currently, the iavf_be PMD provides the basic functionality of packet reception, transmission and event handling.
+
+*   It has multiple queues support.
+
+*   It supports Base mode virtchnl messages processing.
+
+*   Don't need to stop RX/TX manually, stop guest or iavf driver on guest instead.
+
+*   It is running in Polling mode, no RX interrupt support.
+
+*   No MAC VLAN filtering support.
+
+*   No classification offload support.
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/index.rst b/doc/guides/nics/index.rst
index 3443617755..bd764ccbb3 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/index.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/index.rst
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@  Network Interface Controller Drivers
     hinic
     hns3
     i40e
+    iavf_be
     ice
     igb
     igc
diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst
index b310b67b7d..bd14d55fc6 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_02.rst
@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@  New Features
 
   See :doc:`../prog_guide/emudev` for more information.
 
+* **Added iavf_be net driver.**
+
+  Added a Polling Mode Driver iavf_be as software backend for Intel® AVF Ethernet device.
+
+  See :doc:`../nics/iavf_be.rst` for more information.
+
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