Add a requirement to support both Python 2 and 3 to the
DPDK Python Coding Standards and Getting started Guide.
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
The Python requirement should appear in the bullet list.
Also, indent the x32 note, since it is related to the previous bullet.
Signed-off-by: Baruch Siach <baruch@tkos.co.il>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@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>
The commit 66819e6 has introduced a dependency on libarchive to be able
to use some tar resources in the unit tests.
It is now an optional dependency because some systems do not have it
installed.
If CONFIG_RTE_APP_TEST_RESOURCE_TAR is disabled, the PCI test will not
be run. When a "configure" script will be integrated, the libarchive
availability could be checked to automatically enable the option.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Reviewed-by: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
When compiling for i686 targets compilation could fail
if the 32bit libc6-dev package is not installed. The
gcc-multilib packages is a meta-package that will pull
in the necessary dependencies, making setup easier for
beginners.
Reported-by: Weichun Chen <weichunx.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Harry van Haaren <harry.van.haaren@intel.com>
Acked-by: Daniel Mrzyglod <danielx.t.mrzyglod@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Add a new guide doc as part of the Linux Getting Started Guide.
The document is a step-by-step guide on how to get high performance
with DPDK on an Intel platform.
It is designed for users who are not familiar with DPDK but would like
to get the best performance with NICs.
Signed-off-by: Qian Xu <qian.q.xu@intel.com>
Update the documentation to reflect that the minimum Linux kernel
requirement for DPDK 2.2 has increased from 2.6.33 to 2.6.34.
Compatibility with kernel 2.6.33 was dropped, after discussion on
the mailing list, in the following commit:
2e6e9e215703 ("igb_uio: use existing PCI macros")
Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Add requirements about compiler and distribution support.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mrzyglod <danielx.t.mrzyglod@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch@intel.com>
This patch added IBM ppc_64 descriptions, including architecture
support, compiling requirements on Linux.
Signed-off-by: Chao Zhu <chaozhu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Removed references to Intel which
are no longer relevant in linux gsg.
Signed-off-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
The 1.7 DPDK_Linux_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.
This is the first document from a set of documents.
Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
