From patchwork Tue Mar 8 14:49:59 2022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Bruce Richardson X-Patchwork-Id: 108603 X-Patchwork-Delegate: thomas@monjalon.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Received: from mails.dpdk.org (mails.dpdk.org [217.70.189.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6812A00C2; Tue, 8 Mar 2022 15:50:36 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E583A4113C; Tue, 8 Mar 2022 15:50:21 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga04.intel.com (mga04.intel.com [192.55.52.120]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0B194069F for ; Tue, 8 Mar 2022 15:50:19 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1646751020; x=1678287020; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to: references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=aDqJySP6cQ9C92UhgYi/3BGBTAtVJdfG9iKIdgf1PwU=; b=Lq0VicLGqXo54xBWy40d6V673aflGE0NpzDOZyMxXQkEgRmQBxWrgK71 C5p5uXbXAXJj9Zuzc00E/kZm3VaKfjxK7cuQ4GqMcWghL0rKgfVeinxUh /qgSKMm0brKZ0kforbrRCjh1vcpj5keipuK3ZclN8zqdwgC03QAx2O8n2 OAFDZy5bS0/+u9xTSPoB0jAMOPwjo4/ucVCbGifbuvLSCyV6D2JYH06Sj ti9B23PjTUCW6m/kIDfpRmXXEDslrEyd8jICWX3hoSgEOJKdyv/FLw4Bg RFzn+vVeoYxXJP6YRgNQeEGPJwUrmqytQOR+mlywbfHNbmeymfwHtTGFx A==; X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10279"; a="253527939" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.90,165,1643702400"; d="scan'208";a="253527939" Received: from orsmga002.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.21]) by fmsmga104.fm.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 08 Mar 2022 06:50:19 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.90,165,1643702400"; d="scan'208";a="510118230" Received: from silpixa00399126.ir.intel.com ([10.237.223.34]) by orsmga002.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 08 Mar 2022 06:50:18 -0800 From: Bruce Richardson To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: john.mcnamara@intel.com, Bruce Richardson Subject: [PATCH 3/5] doc/linux_gsg: remove duplicated note Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 14:49:59 +0000 Message-Id: <20220308145001.529734-4-bruce.richardson@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.32.0 In-Reply-To: <20220308145001.529734-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> References: <20220308145001.529734-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org A note about secure boot not allowing uio is present in both the system requirements section and the driver binding section. This fits better in the driver binding section, so the copy in system requirements can be removed. The document in general now also emphasises vfio over uio more than when this note was first added, reducing the need for this warning to be repeated. Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson --- doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst index 6f8799504a..df367742cc 100644 --- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst +++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst @@ -17,13 +17,6 @@ and high performance of small packets, BIOS setting changes may be needed. Consult the section on :ref:`Enabling Additional Functionality ` for more information on the required changes. -.. note:: - - If UEFI secure boot is enabled, the Linux kernel may disallow the use of - UIO on the system. Therefore, devices for use by DPDK should be bound to the - ``vfio-pci`` kernel module rather than ``igb_uio`` or ``uio_pci_generic``. - For more details see :ref:`linux_gsg_binding_kernel`. - Compilation of the DPDK -----------------------