12 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
John McNamara
3b60ce8cbb doc: fix missing link target in Linux guide
Fix missing link in the Linux GSG, accidentally removed
in previous merge:

WARNING: undefined label: linux_gsg_compiling_dpdk

Fixes: 29c673401c4d ("doc: improve Linux guide layout")

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
2015-12-17 16:02:31 +01:00
John McNamara
29c673401c doc: improve Linux guide layout
Fixed Linux Getting Started Guide rst layout to improve
rendering in PDF.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2015-12-15 15:04:39 +01:00
Qian Xu
b932ebcb26 doc: add NIC performance guide on Linux IA
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>
2015-12-14 00:52:56 +01:00
Thomas Monjalon
27f356c48d mk: remove multi-target install
The multi-target install create some subdirectories with the target name
which is not standard for a "make install" procedure.

The uninstall procedure cannot be applied properly (without removing
all files in a directory). It would need to pre-compute paths.
As it is a packaging issue, it is removed from the build system capabilities.

The variable BUILD_DIR is also renamed to RTE_OUTPUT used in other files.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Acked-by: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
2015-12-06 15:41:04 +01:00
Bruce Richardson
980ed498eb drivers: create new directory
Add a new top-level "drivers" directory to which all PMDs will be moved
for easier maintenance of both lib folder and drivers themselves. This
new directory is a dependency of all the apps in the app folder, so
the makefiles for each app are updated.
To the new top-level directory add a "net" subdirectory to classify
more specifically our existing PMDs as ethernet drivers

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
[Thomas: fix dependencies and merge several patches]
Acked-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
2015-05-22 15:51:38 +02:00
John McNamara
fea1d908d3 doc: fix spellings and typos
Fixed several typos and spelling errors in guide docs.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2015-04-29 18:34:58 +02:00
Bruce Richardson
5af3be004b doc: add note on needing igb_uio for VF devices
Since the uio_pci_generic module requires that the device to which it is
being bound supports legacy interrupts, there can be problems using it
with VF devices. Add a note to the GSG doc to document this fact, and
provide information on loading igb_uio as a replacement.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
Acked-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Acked-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>
2015-03-31 02:55:07 +02:00
Bruce Richardson
974438fb34 doc: update linux guide for uio_pci_generic use
Since DPDK now has support for the in-tree uio_pci_generic driver,
update the GSG document to reference this module, and to use it
in preference to the igb_uio driver, which is DPDK-specific.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
2015-02-24 22:37:34 +01:00
Chao Zhu
df6aaab37f doc: add IBM Power description to linux guide
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>
2014-12-20 00:38:38 +01:00
Siobhan Butler
2e486e2632 doc: remove Intel references from linux guide
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>
2014-12-19 23:30:26 +01:00
Bernard Iremonger
aae5e11e84 doc: fix file attributes of guides
The file attributes of the rst files have been changed to 644

Signed-off-by: Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
2014-11-13 01:36:44 +01:00
Bernard Iremonger
1ab07743b2 doc: getting started guide for linux
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>
2014-10-23 14:36:42 +02:00