[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/8] doc: add doc to explain compiling and testing of PMD

[Mcnamara, John]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shijith Thotton [mailto:shijith.thotton at caviumnetworks.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 7, 2017 8:07 AM
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> Cc: Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org; Yigit, Ferruh
> <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/8] doc: add doc to explain compiling and
> testing of PMD
> 
> On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 08:30:21PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > 2017-04-06 13:21, Shijith Thotton:
> > > Add a section in NIC drivers documentation to explain compiling and
> > > testing of a PMD. It also mentions about host setup, which is
> > > required before running testpmd.
> > >
> > > Add label "testpmd_ug" to refer user guide.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thotton at caviumnetworks.com>
> >
> > It is really good to factorize documentation.
> >
> > This doc is about testpmd in Linux
> > and does not refer to FreeBSD.
> > Do we assume to take Linux as the reference?
> 
> I can submit v2 with a subsection for running testpmd in FreeBSD.

Hi,

> I can submit v2 with a subsection for running testpmd in FreeBSD.

I don't think that is necessary. You patch already calls out the
Linux and FreeBSD Getting Started Guides. I think that is enough.


@tmonjalo
For me this new "Compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC" section
is a way of avoiding duplicate sections in the NIC guides. I don't
think it has to be a definitive guide to TestPMD.

As and aside, I would like to do something similar with the sample
app guides, i.e., have one section on compilation that the other
app guides can refer to. I'll try to add that in the next release.

So for me this patchset is okay as it is.

John