[PATCH v2] net/nfb: update links in documentation

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 11/11/2021 6:39 AM, Martin Spinler wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-11-10 at 16:12 +0000, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> On 11/10/2021 3:39 PM, Martin Spinler wrote:
>>> Update the software dependency link because of website shutdown.
>>>
>>> Netcope Technologies was recently renamed to Magmio and no longer
>>> provides packages and support for the FPGA cards and NDK platform.
>>>
>>> However the project Liberouter at CESNET continues with the maintenance
>>> of Network Development Kit and cooperates on the development of high
>>> speed network FPGA cards as well.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the update.
>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Martin Spinler <spinler at cesnet.cz>
>>> ---
>>>    doc/guides/nics/nfb.rst | 8 ++++----
>>>    1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/nfb.rst b/doc/guides/nics/nfb.rst
>>> index 790fc48311..14560d38e4 100644
>>> --- a/doc/guides/nics/nfb.rst
>>> +++ b/doc/guides/nics/nfb.rst
>>> @@ -11,10 +11,10 @@ FPGA-based programmable NICs. The NFB PMD uses interface provided by the libnfb
>>>    library to communicate with these cards over the nfb layer.
>>>    
>>>    More information about the
>>> -`NFB cards <http://www.netcope.com/en/products/fpga-boards>`_
>>> +`NFB cards <https://www.liberouter.org/technologies/cards/>`_
>>>    and used technology
>>> -(`Netcope Development Kit <http://www.netcope.com/en/products/fpga-development-kit>`_)
>>> -can be found on the `Netcope Technologies website <http://www.netcope.com/>`_.
>>> +(`Network Development Kit <https://www.liberouter.org/ndk/>`_)
>>> +can be found on the `Liberouter website <http://www.liberouter.org/>`_.
>>>    
>>>    .. note::
>>>    
>>> @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ separately:
>>>       sharing of resources for user space applications.
>>>    
>>>    Dependencies can be found here:
>>> -`Netcope common <https://www.netcope.com/en/company/community-support/dpdk-libsze2#NFB>`_.
>>> +`Netcope common <https://github.com/CESNET/ndk-sw>`_.
>>>    
>>
>> The repo is empty as of now, what is the plan for it?
> 
> We are planning to release large part of the NDK (firmware + software)
> as open source together with introducing the new FPGA card in Q1 2022.
> 
> I updated the repo with a short README, which says that content of this
> repository is being prepared for the publication, but for now there is
> a latest RPM package for RHEL7 in the Releases section of the Github
> repo.
> 

+1 to the README, and good to hear that NDK will be open source, is there
any timeline for it?