NXP's roadmap for DPDK 18.02

NXP is planning to introduce following features/changes in DPDK 18.02 release

Introduce raw-device Support: A generic device library for representing accelerators and IP blocks and exposing some generic APIs. This can enable various other non-standard devices to be deployed over DPDK framework. NXP plan to use it for several of it's accelerator devices. 

Crypto eventdev support: Introduce Crypto PMD (dpaa and dpaa2)  with crypto adapter implementation for eventdev.

Mempool enhancements to combine dpaa and dpaa2 configs into one.

Ethdev : add support to check optimal driver packet burst size capability.

IOVA mode : enable virtual address support in DPAA2 PMDs

DPAA SEC : add RTE Security Protocol offload support

DPAA2 eventdev :  add support for ordered and atomic queues.

DPAA eventdev: introduce eventdev driver with ethernet adapter implementation.