Rather than using linuxapp and bsdapp everywhere, we can change things to
use the, more readable, terms "linux" and "freebsd" in our build configs.
Rather than renaming the configs we can just duplicate the existing ones
with the new names using symlinks, and use the new names exclusively
internally. ["make showconfigs" also only shows the new names to keep the
list short] The result is that backward compatibility is kept fully but any
new builds or development can be done using the newer names, i.e. both
"make config T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc" and "T=x86_64-native-linux-gcc"
work.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
The DPDK website has a new URL scheme since June 2018.
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Currently, the most complete (but still incomplete) user guide for
EAL command-line parameters resides in user guide for testpmd.
This is wrong on multiple levels, and should not be the case.
To fix it, we have to create a document that lists all supported
EAL command-line arguments. However, because different platforms
support different subsets of available EAL parameters, instead of
creating a single file, we will create a common file in
doc/guides/common containing documentation for EAL parameters
that are supported on all of our supported platforms (Linux and
FreeBSD at the time of this writing).
We will then include this document in the Getting Started guides
for all supported platforms, so that any changes made to
documentation for commonly supported EAL parameters will be
reflected in Getting Started guides for all platforms.
This patch also removes EAL parameters documentation from the
testpmd user guide, and instead adds references to the newly
created documents in both testpmd user guides and in sample
applications guide.
Signed-off-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Rami Rosen <roszenrami@gmail.com>
EAL option -m is supported in FreeBSD,
so move it under supported heading from non
supported heading.
Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Anatoly Burakov <anatoly.burakov@intel.com>
DPDK has support for both sw and hw mempool and
currently user is limited to use ring_mp_mc pool.
In case user want to use other pool handle,
need to update config RTE_MEMPOOL_OPS_DEFAULT, then
build and run with desired pool handle.
Introducing eal option to override default pool handle.
Now user can override the RTE_MEMPOOL_OPS_DEFAULT by passing
pool handle to eal `--mbuf-pool-ops-name=""`.
Signed-off-by: Santosh Shukla <santosh.shukla@caviumnetworks.com>
Acked-by: Hemant Agrawal <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>
Acked-by: Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
The coremask option in DPDK is difficult to use and we should be
promoting the use of the corelist (-l) option. The patch
adjusts the docs to use -l EAL option instead of the -c option.
The patch only changes the docs and not the code as the -c option
will continue to exist unless it is removed in the future. The -c
option should be kept to maintain backward compatibility.
Signed-off-by: Keith Wiles <keith.wiles@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
There is already a directory buildtools for pmdinfogen used by
the build system. The scripts used in makefiles are moved here.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Tested-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
The GCC 4.9 -march option supports the intel code names for processors,
for example -march=silvermont, -march=broadwell.
The RTE_MACHINE config flag can be used to pass code name to
the compiler as -march flag.
Release notes is updated.
Linux and FreeBSD getting started guides are updated with recommended
gcc version as 4.9 and above.
Some of the gmake command examples in sample application guide and driver
guides are updated with gcc version as 4.9.
Signed-off-by: Reshma Pattan <reshma.pattan@intel.com>
Lists of DPDK files are hard to maintain up to date and does not bring
much information.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu@linux.intel.com>
The recipe rte.hostapp.mk does not build in hostapp/ anymore.
Fixes: 98b0fdb0ff ("pmdinfogen: add buildtools and pmdinfogen utility")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Remove **Contents** and |Today| from the rst doc index files since
these are already added automatically to PDF files and are of
little value to the Html files where the Contents is shown in a
sidebar.
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
This is a useful default for simple applications where the assignment
of lcores to CPUs doesn't matter. It's also useful for more complex
applications that automatically assign tasks to cores based on the
NUMA topology.
Signed-off-by: Rich Lane <rich.lane@bigswitch.com>
Since the DPDK is now part of the BSD ports collection, we should
recommend installing from ports as the best way to get it up and
running.
In order to achieve this, while still keeping the document readable, the
chapter on system requirements has been moved to instead be a section
within the chapter on compiling the DPDK outside of the ports
collection. This move is necessary, since it covered a lot of detail on
installing other ports required to build DPDK. These steps are not
needed when installing DPDK itself from ports.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
The FreeBSD GSG rst files had very inconsistent line lengths for text
within paragraph blocks. Sometimes a line would be very short, while often
lines would be quite long.
This patch adjusts the formatting of the rst files so that lines break
at approx the 80-character mark, as is standard in the DPDK source code.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
The index.html file for each of the "guide" docs had a hard-coded
date value in them of June 2014. Rather than update each of these
for each revision, just use the |today| directive to insert the date
at which the document was generated.
Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
The 1.7 DPDK_FreeBSD_GSG document in MSWord has been converted to rst format for
use with Sphinx. There is an rst file for each chapter and an index.rst file
which contains the table of contents.
The top level index file has been modified to include this guide.
This is the second document from a set of 6 documents.
Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
