doc: cleanup UIO hard requirement
UIO is not a must for all PMDs. Cleaning up the Linux Getting Started Guide from this hard requirement. Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com> Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
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@ -98,12 +98,14 @@ Running a Sample Application
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.. warning::
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The UIO drivers and hugepages must be setup prior to running an application.
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Before running the application make sure:
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.. warning::
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- Hugepages setup is done.
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- Any kernel driver being used is loaded.
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- In case needed, ports being used by the application should be
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bound to the corresponding kernel driver.
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Any ports to be used by the application must be already bound to an appropriate kernel
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module, as described in :ref:`linux_gsg_binding_kernel`, prior to running the application.
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refer to :ref:`linux_gsg_linux_drivers` for more details.
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The application is linked with the DPDK target environment's Environmental Abstraction Layer (EAL) library,
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which provides some options that are generic to every DPDK application.
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For other kernel builds, options which should be enabled for DPDK include:
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* UIO support
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* HUGETLBFS
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* PROC_PAGE_MONITOR support
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