From patchwork Thu Mar 10 12:38:38 2022 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Bruce Richardson X-Patchwork-Id: 108647 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 853DEA0093; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:39:13 +0100 (CET) Received: from [217.70.189.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 198B141155; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:39:01 +0100 (CET) Received: from mga06.intel.com (mga06.intel.com [134.134.136.31]) by mails.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12B214114E for ; Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:38:58 +0100 (CET) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=intel.com; i=@intel.com; q=dns/txt; s=Intel; t=1646915939; x=1678451939; h=from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:in-reply-to: references:mime-version:content-transfer-encoding; bh=aDqJySP6cQ9C92UhgYi/3BGBTAtVJdfG9iKIdgf1PwU=; b=OjLBc7bChL97JhyGw6cuYfAk0XGAxu045fWMjrkrUISuWYoemVAyROMt lt9YZcrRZPZ8bu9xOD2MEyPdpdfnO9kTGlSZi032aZwF6R/9VyhJLpDp2 MEIqyXawOuwJEBPGWkrftp0ds7D1aG9lCkhX1x5eHuU2OhFH3hMKUv1zy SPgZEHD4Y2rT3uPMEGCk4uDBD7dLQFvbUHQsd69hrqjdNFA6dQ+jsnTvh K8o6cdTt6P3EfWwn1NeWEk0kULSOzRKGH6xXgMtKhS3bkPyYGQ0wpPan1 bbuBHVUa+gSSZlOhBZv2OznJ1uPwBUTBL8OGDTEYycU8b1U8tyk0WUwKA Q==; X-IronPort-AV: E=McAfee;i="6200,9189,10281"; a="315957608" X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.90,170,1643702400"; d="scan'208";a="315957608" Received: from orsmga006.jf.intel.com ([10.7.209.51]) by orsmga104.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 10 Mar 2022 04:38:58 -0800 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.90,170,1643702400"; d="scan'208";a="513970206" Received: from silpixa00399126.ir.intel.com ([10.237.223.34]) by orsmga006.jf.intel.com with ESMTP; 10 Mar 2022 04:38:57 -0800 From: Bruce Richardson To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: john.mcnamara@intel.com, Bruce Richardson Subject: [PATCH v2 3/8] doc/linux_gsg: remove duplicated note Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 12:38:38 +0000 Message-Id: <20220310123843.612207-4-bruce.richardson@intel.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.32.0 In-Reply-To: <20220310123843.612207-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> References: <20220308145001.529734-1-bruce.richardson@intel.com> <20220310123843.612207-1-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 -----------------------