[dpdk-dev] doc: update dependency requirement for some PMDs

Akhil Goyal gakhil at marvell.com
Tue Jul 6 21:54:36 CEST 2021


Hi Stephen,
> 
> You are right, but without this we cannot rule out the chance that the
> user downloaded DPDK, reverted to any version earlier than 20.11 (where
> make
> and meson co-existed) and use make to compile - also they happened to
> have
> intel-ipsec-mb version 1.0 or newer installed before compiling DPDK.
> 
> With the description, at least they would know switching to meson build will
> fix
> the problem.
> 
 Do you have more comments on this patch?

> > > diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_gcm.rst
> > b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_gcm.rst
> > > index 19f95bde8e..11b23958d5 100644
> > > --- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_gcm.rst
> > > +++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/aesni_gcm.rst
> > > @@ -83,9 +83,10 @@ and the external crypto libraries supported by
> them:
> > >     17.02 - 17.05  ISA-L Crypto v2.18
> > >     17.08 - 18.02  Multi-buffer library 0.46 - 0.48
> > >     18.05 - 19.02  Multi-buffer library 0.49 - 0.52
> > > -   19.05+         Multi-buffer library 0.52 - 1.0
> > > +   19.05+         Multi-buffer library 0.52 - 1.0*
> > >     =============  ================================
> > >
> > > +\* Multi-buffer library 1.0 or newer only works for Meson but not Make
> > build system.
> >
> > Make is no longer a supported build system, so why mention it in docs?


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