From patchwork Thu Aug 6 15:49:09 2020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Slava Ovsiienko X-Patchwork-Id: 75253 X-Patchwork-Delegate: thomas@monjalon.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Delivered-To: patchwork@inbox.dpdk.org Received: from dpdk.org (dpdk.org [92.243.14.124]) by inbox.dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA060A0353; Thu, 6 Aug 2020 17:49:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [92.243.14.124] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3EB01C033; Thu, 6 Aug 2020 17:49:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from git-send-mailer.rdmz.labs.mlnx (unknown [37.142.13.130]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0CB11C033 for ; Thu, 6 Aug 2020 17:49:14 +0200 (CEST) From: Viacheslav Ovsiienko To: dev@dpdk.org Cc: rasland@mellanox.com, thomas@monjalon.net Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2020 15:49:09 +0000 Message-Id: <1596728949-8869-1-git-send-email-viacheslavo@mellanox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.1 Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: fix the release notes for Mellanox PMD X-BeenThere: dev@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" The mlx5 PMD might not work on Power 9 platform with OFED version 5.1-0.6.6.0 (latest GA release at the moment). Release notes know issues chapter is updated accordingly, workaround is proposed. Fixes: 544f35c334e5 ("doc: add tested platforms with Mellanox NICs") Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko --- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst index 9761f5a..147a380 100644 --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst @@ -331,6 +331,11 @@ Known Issues Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin. ========================================================= + * **mlx5 PMD might not work on Power 9 with OFED 5.1-0.6.6.0.** + + Consider using the newer OFED releases, the previous + OFED 5.0-2.1.8.0, or upstream rdma-core library v29 and above. + Tested Platforms ---------------- @@ -489,4 +494,4 @@ Tested Platforms * OFED: - * MLNX_OFED 5.1-0.6.6.0 + * MLNX_OFED 5.0-2.1.8.0