[20.11,05/19] doc: remove references to make in bbdev guides
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Make is no longer supported for compiling DPDK, references are now
removed in the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com>
---
doc/guides/bbdevs/fpga_5gnr_fec.rst | 5 +----
doc/guides/bbdevs/fpga_lte_fec.rst | 5 +----
doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst | 15 ---------------
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
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07/08/2020 14:29, Ciara Power:
> Make is no longer supported for compiling DPDK, references are now
> removed in the documentation.
You won't get appropriate review if you don't Cc the right maintainers.
Please use --cc-cmd devtools/get-maintainer.sh with git send-email
so the maintainers are automatically Cc'ed in each relevant patch.
On 07/08/2020 13:29, Ciara Power wrote:
> Make is no longer supported for compiling DPDK, references are now
> removed in the documentation.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com>
> ---
> doc/guides/bbdevs/fpga_5gnr_fec.rst | 5 +----
> doc/guides/bbdevs/fpga_lte_fec.rst | 5 +----
> doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst | 15 ---------------
> 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>
The insmod example path needs to be updated in 'fpga_lte_fec.rst' to
reflect the meson path. Apart from that,
Reviewed-by: Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz@intel.com>
@@ -51,10 +51,7 @@ FPGA 5GNR FEC does not support the following:
Installation
------------
-Section 3 of the DPDK manual provides instructions on installing and compiling DPDK. The
-default set of bbdev compile flags may be found in config/common_base, where for example
-the flag to build the FPGA 5GNR FEC device, ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_BBDEV_FPGA_5GNR_FEC``,
-is already set.
+Section 3 of the DPDK manual provides instructions on installing and compiling DPDK.
DPDK requires hugepages to be configured as detailed in section 2 of the DPDK manual.
The bbdev test application has been tested with a configuration 40 x 1GB hugepages. The
@@ -50,10 +50,7 @@ FPGA LTE FEC does not support the following:
Installation
--------------
-Section 3 of the DPDK manual provides instructions on installing and compiling DPDK. The
-default set of bbdev compile flags may be found in config/common_base, where for example
-the flag to build the FPGA LTE FEC device, ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_BBDEV_FPGA_LTE_FEC``, is already
-set.
+Section 3 of the DPDK manual provides instructions on installing and compiling DPDK.
DPDK requires hugepages to be configured as detailed in section 2 of the DPDK manual.
The bbdev test application has been tested with a configuration 40 x 1GB hugepages. The
@@ -12,14 +12,6 @@ Note that the driver can also be built without any dependency with reduced
functionality for maintenance purpose.
To enable linking to the SDK libraries see detailed installation section below.
-Two flags can be enabled depending on whether the target machine can support
-AVX2 and AVX512 instructions sets and the related SDK libraries for vectorized
-signal processing functions are installed :
-- CONFIG_RTE_BBDEV_SDK_AVX2
-- CONFIG_RTE_BBDEV_SDK_AVX512
-By default these 2 flags are disabled by default. For AVX2 machine and SDK
-library installed then the first flag can be enabled. For AVX512 machine and
-SDK library installed then both flags can be enabled for full real time capability.
This PMD supports the functions: FEC, Rate Matching and CRC functions detailed
in the Features section.
@@ -151,13 +143,6 @@ Example:
export FLEXRAN_SDK=<path-to-workspace>/FlexRAN-FEC-SDK-19-04/sdk/build-avx2-icc/install
export DIR_WIRELESS_SDK=<path-to-workspace>/FlexRAN-FEC-SDK-19-04/sdk/build-avx2-icc/
-* Set ``CONFIG_RTE_BBDEV_SDK_AVX2=y`` and ``CONFIG_RTE_BBDEV_SDK_AVX512=y``
- in DPDK common configuration file ``config/common_base`` to be able to use
- the SDK libraries as mentioned above.
- For AVX2 machine it is possible to only enable CONFIG_RTE_BBDEV_SDK_AVX2
- for limited 4G functionality.
- If no flag are set the PMD driver will still build but its capabilities
- will be limited accordingly.
To use the PMD in an application, user must: