[v2,2/3] doc: update release notes for Broadcom PMD

Message ID 20191121233435.4263-2-ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Ajit Khaparde
Headers
Series [v2,1/3] doc: update bnxt feature list |

Checks

Context Check Description
ci/checkpatch warning coding style issues
ci/Intel-compilation fail Compilation issues

Commit Message

Ajit Khaparde Nov. 21, 2019, 11:34 p.m. UTC
  Update release doc briefly describing updates to bnxt PMD for
19.11 release.

The support for these was added in the following commits:
1) b150a7e7ee66 ("net/bnxt: support LRO on Thor adapters")
2) be14720def9c ("net/bnxt: support FW reset")
3) df6cd7c1f73a ("net/bnxt: handle reset notify async event from FW")
4) 698aa7e95325 ("net/bnxt: add code to determine the Tx COS queue")
5) 04102f2ffc8c ("net/bnxt: update HWRM API to version 1.10.1.6")

Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
index 48c80e5da..53856399d 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_11.rst
@@ -201,6 +201,16 @@  New Features
   * Enabled zero copy between application mempools and UMEM by enabling the
     XDP_UMEM_UNALIGNED_CHUNKS UMEM flag.
 
+* **Updated Broadcom bnxt driver.**
+
+  Updated Broadcom bnxt driver with new features and improvements, including:
+
+  * Added support for hot firmware upgrade.
+  * Added support for error recovery.
+  * Added support for querying and using COS classification in hardware.
+  * Added LRO support Thor devices.
+  * Update HWRM API to version 1.10.1.6
+
 * **Added Marvell NITROX symmetric crypto PMD.**
 
   Added a symmetric crypto PMD for Marvell NITROX V security processor.