[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/3] doc: cleanup UIO hard requirement

Shahaf Shuler shahafs at mellanox.com
Sat Jul 29 18:17:31 CEST 2017


UIO is not a must for all PMDs.

Cleaning up the Linux Getting Started Guide from this hard requirement.

Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>
Acked-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst | 10 ++++++----
 doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst          |  2 --
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst
index 12fefffdd..0cc5fd173 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/build_sample_apps.rst
@@ -98,12 +98,14 @@ Running a Sample Application
 
 .. warning::
 
-    The UIO drivers and hugepages must be setup prior to running an application.
+    Before running the application make sure:
 
-.. warning::
+    - Hugepages setup is done.
+    - Any kernel driver being used is loaded.
+    - In case needed, ports being used by the application should be
+      bound to the corresponding kernel driver.
 
-    Any ports to be used by the application must be already bound to an appropriate kernel
-    module, as described in :ref:`linux_gsg_binding_kernel`, prior to running the application.
+    refer to :ref:`linux_gsg_linux_drivers` for more details.
 
 The application is linked with the DPDK target environment's Environmental Abstraction Layer (EAL) library,
 which provides some options that are generic to every DPDK application.
diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
index af7a93121..375bec8c9 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
@@ -131,8 +131,6 @@ System Software
 
     For other kernel builds, options which should be enabled for DPDK include:
 
-    *   UIO support
-
     *   HUGETLBFS
 
     *   PROC_PAGE_MONITOR  support
-- 
2.12.0



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