[dpdk-dev] Compiling MLX4 Support into 2.1.0

[Nathan Speulda]

Thank you for the response,

I followed all of the documentation before I came to the forum on this
one.  OFED is installed and working correctly with all drivers loaded.  I
get to the point of compiling dpdk with support enabled and nothing appears
to come out during the compile (for mlx4 which is included in the
.config).  My interfaces are not being seen by the PMD though I am aware it
works differently than the base supported adapters.

Thanks,
Nathan

On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 9:35 AM, Adrien Mazarguil <
adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com> wrote:

> Hi Nathan,
>
> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 09:10:03AM -0700, Nathan Speulda wrote:
> > All,
> >
> > I am attempting to do some work using a CX3-Pro adapter in a forwarding
> > environment and am attempting to enable the supported PMD that is
> included
> > in the 2.1.0 release of DPDK.  My base distro is RHEL6.5 for stability
> > reasons.  Does anyone have a more detailed idea of how to get the
> Mellanox
> > PMD working correctly?  Does base distro have any impact on this at
> all?  I
> > have been unable to find what I need at the Mellanox community support.
>
> You need to install Mellanox OFED before attempting to compile the mlx4
> PMD, as described in the relevant documentation (doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst)
> also available here:
>
>  http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.html
>
> See "Prerequisites" and "Getting Mellanox OFED" sections.
>
> It should work fine with all Linux distributions supported by Mellanox
> OFED. In your specific case, RHEL 6.5 is supported by MOFED 3.0-2.0.1.
>
> --
> Adrien Mazarguil
> 6WIND
>