[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/4] doc: add basic invocation info for dpdk-pmdinfo

Christian Ehrhardt christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
Thu Aug 4 13:16:57 CEST 2016


This summarizes the "how to call dpdk-pmdinfo" in one place to be picked
up by html/pdf/man-page docs.

Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
---
 doc/guides/conf.py                   |  4 ++-
 doc/guides/sample_app_ug/index.rst   |  1 +
 doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pmdinfo.rst | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 66 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pmdinfo.rst

diff --git a/doc/guides/conf.py b/doc/guides/conf.py
index 4435974..48fe890 100644
--- a/doc/guides/conf.py
+++ b/doc/guides/conf.py
@@ -98,7 +98,9 @@ man_pages = [("testpmd_app_ug/run_app", "testpmd",
              ("sample_app_ug/pdump", "dpdk-pdump",
               "enable packet capture on dpdk ports", "", 1),
              ("sample_app_ug/proc_info", "dpdk-procinfo",
-              "access dpdk port stats and memory info", "", 1)]
+              "access dpdk port stats and memory info", "", 1),
+             ("sample_app_ug/pmdinfo", "dpdk-pmdinfo",
+              "dump a PMDs hardware support info", "", 1)]
 
 ######## :numref: fallback ########
 # The following hook functions add some simple handling for the :numref:
diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/index.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/index.rst
index 96bb317..7801688 100644
--- a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/index.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/index.rst
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ Sample Applications User Guide
     performance_thread
     ipsec_secgw
     pdump
+    pmdinfo
 
 **Figures**
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pmdinfo.rst b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pmdinfo.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6bbf7e2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/guides/sample_app_ug/pmdinfo.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,62 @@
+
+..  BSD LICENSE
+    Copyright(c) 2016 Canonical Limited. All rights reserved.
+
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+
+
+dpdk-pmdinfo Application
+========================
+
+The ``dpdk-pmdinfo`` tool is a Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) tool that can
+dump a PMDs hardware support info.
+
+   .. Note::
+
+      * The actual data is stored in the object files as PMD_INFO_STRING
+
+
+Running the Application
+-----------------------
+
+The tool has a number of command line options:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+
+   dpdk-pmdinfo [-hrtp] [-d <pci id file] <elf-file>
+
+   -h, --help            show a short help message and exit
+   -r, --raw             Dump as raw json strings
+   -d FILE, --pcidb=FILE
+                         specify a pci database to get vendor names from
+   -t, --table           output information on hw support as a hex table
+   -p, --plugindir       scan dpdk for autoload plugins
+
+.. Note::
+
+   * Parameters inside the square brackets represents optional parameters.
-- 
2.7.4



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