Raslan Darawsheh 7b61f14edb doc: update NVIDIA devices in mlx5 guides
This updates the doc to include new supported devices like ConnectX-7,
and updates the description of older ones.

Signed-off-by: Raslan Darawsheh <rasland@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
2022-07-11 23:32:56 +02:00

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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
Copyright 2020 Mellanox Technologies, Ltd
.. include:: <isonum.txt>
MLX5 RegEx Driver
=================
The mlx5 RegEx (Regular Expression) driver library
(**librte_regex_mlx5**) provides support for **NVIDIA BlueField-2**
families of 25/50/100/200 Gb/s adapters.
Design
------
This PMD is configuring the RegEx HW engine.
For the PMD to work, the application must supply
a precompiled rule file in rof2 format.
See :doc:`../../platform/mlx5` guide for more design details.
Features
--------
- Multi segments mbuf support.
Configuration
-------------
See :ref:`mlx5 common compilation <mlx5_common_compilation>`,
:ref:`mlx5 firmware configuration <mlx5_firmware_config>`,
and :ref:`mlx5 common driver options <mlx5_common_driver_options>`.
Supported NICs
--------------
* NVIDIA\ |reg| BlueField-2 SmartNIC
Prerequisites
-------------
- BlueField-2 running NVIDIA supported kernel.
- Enable the RegEx capabilities using system call from the BlueField-2.
- Official support is not yet released.
Limitations
-----------
- The firmware version must be greater than XX.31.0364