numam-dpdk/doc/guides/tools/pmdinfo.rst
Christian Ehrhardt 8afe8267b8 doc: add basic guide for pmdinfo
This summarizes the "how to call dpdk-pmdinfo" in one place to be picked
up by html/pdf/man-page docs.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Luca Boccassi <lboccass@brocade.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
2016-10-26 23:46:35 +02:00

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dpdk-pmdinfo Application
========================
The ``dpdk-pmdinfo`` tool is a Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) utility that
can dump a PMDs hardware support info.
Running the Application
-----------------------
The tool has a number of command line options:
.. code-block:: console
dpdk-pmdinfo [-hrtp] [-d <pci id file] <elf-file>
-h, --help Show a short help message and exit
-r, --raw Dump as raw json strings
-d FILE, --pcidb=FILE Specify a pci database to get vendor names from
-t, --table Output information on hw support as a hex table
-p, --plugindir Scan dpdk for autoload plugins
.. Note::
* Parameters inside the square brackets represents optional parameters.