[EXT] Re: [PATCH v3 34/35] ml/cnxk: update dependency info in driver docs

[Srikanth Yalavarthi]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk at gmail.com>
> Sent: 28 September 2023 09:43
> To: Srikanth Yalavarthi <syalavarthi at marvell.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Shivah Shankar Shankar Narayan Rao
> <sshankarnara at marvell.com>; Anup Prabhu <aprabhu at marvell.com>;
> Prince Takkar <ptakkar at marvell.com>; techboard at dpdk.org; Srikanth
> Yalavarthi <syalavarthi at marvell.com>
> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v3 34/35] ml/cnxk: update dependency info in
> driver docs
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> On Thu, Sep 28, 2023 at 6:41 AM Srikanth Yalavarthi
> <syalavarthi at marvell.com> wrote:
> >
> > Added information related to external library dependencies for ml/cnxk
> > driver.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Srikanth Yalavarthi <syalavarthi at marvell.com>
> > ---
> >  doc/guides/mldevs/cnxk.rst | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/doc/guides/mldevs/cnxk.rst b/doc/guides/mldevs/cnxk.rst
> > index 197e1ed06f..afadc834e0 100644
> > --- a/doc/guides/mldevs/cnxk.rst
> > +++ b/doc/guides/mldevs/cnxk.rst
> > @@ -47,6 +47,34 @@ or cross-compiled on an x86 platform.
> >  Refer to :doc:`../platform/cnxk` for instructions to build your DPDK
> application.
> >
> >
> > +Compilation Prerequisites
> > +-------------------------
> > +
> > +This driver requires external libraries to optionally enable support
> > +for models compiled using Apache TVM framework. The following
> > +dependencies are not part of DPDK and must be installed separately:
> > +
> > +- **Jansson**
> > +
> > +  This library enables support to parse and read JSON files.
> > +
> > +- **libarchive**
> > +
> > +  Apached TVM framework generates compiled models as tar archives.
> > + This  library enables support to decompress and read archive files
> > + in tar,  xz and other formats.
> > +
> > +- **TVM**
> > +
> > +  Apache TVM provides a runtime library (libtvm_runtime) used to
> > + execute  models on CPU cores or hardware accelerators.
> > +
> > +- **TVMDP**
> > +
> > +  Marvell's TVM dataplane library which works as an interface between
> > + TVM  runtime and DPDK drivers. TVMDP library provides a simplified C
> > + interface  for TVM's runtime based on C++.
> 
> It seems that it depends on a proprietary library. Please fix the following for
> merging this series.
> 
> According to what was discussed in the Technical Board:
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> the dependency must be "freely available" to build it either source or binary
> form. (Prefer in source form)
> 
TVMDP library is now hosted on GitHub. Updated the documentation with required details and build steps.

> Also, Squash all doc updates to relevant patches.
Done. Squashed to corresponding patches.