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+..  BSD LICENSE
+    Copyright(c) 2010-2014 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved.
+    All rights reserved.
+
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+
+
+DPDK Release 2.0
+================
+
+
+New Features
+------------
+
+*   Poll-mode driver support for an early release of the PCIE host interface of the Intel(R) Ethernet Switch FM10000.
+
+    *   Basic Rx/Tx functions for PF/VF
+
+    *   Interrupt handling support for PF/VF
+
+    *   Per queue start/stop functions for PF/VF
+
+    *   Support Mailbox handling between PF/VF and PF/Switch Manager
+
+    *   Receive Side Scaling (RSS) for PF/VF
+
+    *   Scatter receive function for PF/VF
+
+    *   Reta update/query for PF/VF
+
+    *   VLAN filter set for PF
+
+    *   Link status query for PF/VF
+
+.. 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 adaptive load balancing (mode 6) to the link bonding library.
+
+    *   Support for registration of link status change callbacks with link bonding devices.
+
+    *   Support for slaves devices which do not support link status change interrupts in the link bonding library via a link status polling mechanism.
+
+*   PCI Hotplug with NULL PMD sample application
+
+*   ABI versioning
+
+*   x32 ABI
+
+*   Non-EAL Thread Support
+
+*   Multi-pthread Support
+
+*   Re-order Library
+
+*   ACL for AVX2
+
+*   Architecture Independent CRC Hash
+
+*   uio_pci_generic Support
+
+*   KNI Optimizations
+
+*   Vhost-user support
+
+*   Virtio (link, vlan, mac, port IO, perf)
+
+*   IXGBE-VF RSS
+
+*   RX/TX Callbacks
+
+*   Unified Flow Types
+
+*   Indirect Attached MBUF Flag
+
+*   Use default port configuration in TestPMD
+
+*   Tunnel offloading in TestPMD
+
+*   Poll Mode Driver - 40 GbE Controllers (librte_pmd_i40e)
+
+    *   Support for Flow Director
+
+    *   Support for ethertype filter
+
+    *   Support RSS in VF
+
+    *   Support configuring redirection table with different size from 1GbE and 10 GbE
+
+       -   128/512 entries of 40GbE PF
+
+       -   64 entries of 40GbE VF
+
+    *   Support configuring hash functions
+
+    *   Support for VXLAN packet on Intel® 40GbE Controllers
+
+*   Poll Mode Driver for Mellanox ConnectX-3 EN adapters (mlx4)
+
+.. note:: This PMD is only available for Linux and is disabled by default
+          due to external dependencies (libibverbs and libmlx4). Please
+          refer to the NIC drivers guide for more information.
+
+*   Packet Distributor Sample Application
+
+*   Job Stats library and Sample Application.
+
+*   Enhanced Jenkins hash (jhash) library
+
+.. note:: The hash values returned by the new jhash library are different
+          from the ones returned by the previous library.