[dpdk-dev] doc: add warning for fm10k early driver

Message ID 1427023955-12088-1-git-send-email-siobhan.a.butler@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
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Commit Message

Siobhan Butler March 22, 2015, 11:32 a.m. UTC
  This patch adds a note to the release notes new features,
as a warning regarding the early status of the FM10K driver for pre-release access

Signed-off-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/new_features.rst | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
  

Comments

Thomas Monjalon March 31, 2015, 12:43 a.m. UTC | #1
2015-03-22 11:32, Siobhan Butler:
> This patch adds a note to the release notes new features,
> as a warning regarding the early status of the FM10K driver for pre-release access
> 
> Signed-off-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>

Applied, thanks
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/new_features.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/new_features.rst
index a27e360..890671c 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/new_features.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/new_features.rst
@@ -30,6 +30,13 @@ 
 
 New Features
 ============
+*   Poll-mode driver support for an early release of the PCIE host interface of the Intel(R) Ethernet Switch FM10000.
+
+.. note:: The software is intended to run on pre-release hardware and may contain unknown or unresolved defects or 
+          issues related to functionality and performance.
+          The poll mode driver is also pre-release and will be updated to a released version post hardware and base driver release.
+          Should the official hardware release be made between DPDK releases an updated poll-mode driver will be made available.
+
 *   Link Bonding
 
     *   Support for 802.3ad link aggregation (mode 4) and transmit load balancing (mode 5) to the link bonding library.