It deprecates sys files of 'extended_tag' and
'max_read_request_size' which was not documented.
Signed-off-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
PCIe feature of 'Extended Tag' is important for 40G performance.
It adds its enabling during each port initialization, to ensure
the high performance.
Signed-off-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
Added notes for i40e firmware version. As base driver to support the
latest version of firmware (FVL3E) hasn't been integrated, currently
the validated version of firmware is 4.2.6.
Signed-off-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Siobhan Butler <siobhan.a.butler@intel.com>
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>
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>
