[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 28/37] doc: remove references to make in mempool guides

Ciara Power ciara.power at intel.com
Thu Aug 20 14:41:31 CEST 2020


Make is no longer supported for compiling DPDK, references are now
removed in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst  | 28 +++-------------------------
 doc/guides/mempool/octeontx2.rst | 10 +---------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst b/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst
index dfa1993e19..33c40d5b17 100644
--- a/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst
@@ -30,33 +30,11 @@ Prerequisites
 
 See :doc: `../platform/octeontx.rst` for setup information.
 
-Pre-Installation Configuration
-------------------------------
-
-Config File Options
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-The following options can be modified in the ``config`` file.
-Please note that enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
-
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_MBUF_DEFAULT_MEMPOOL_OPS`` ( set to ``octeontx_fpavf``)
-
-  Set default mempool ops to octeontx_fpavf.
-
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX_MEMPOOL`` (default ``y``)
-
-  Toggle compilation of the ``librte_mempool_octeontx`` driver.
 
 Driver Compilation
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-To compile the OCTEON TX FPAVF MEMPOOL PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the
-following ``make`` command:
-
-.. code-block:: console
+------------------
 
-   cd <DPDK-source-directory>
-   make config T=arm64-thunderx-linux-gcc
+See :doc:`../linux_gsg/build_dpdk` for more information on compiling DPDK.
 
 
 Initialization
@@ -70,5 +48,5 @@ Example:
 
 .. code-block:: console
 
-    ./build/app/test -c 0xf --base-virtaddr=0x100000000000 \
+    ./<build_dir>/app/test/dpdk-test -c 0xf --base-virtaddr=0x100000000000 \
                         --mbuf-pool-ops-name="octeontx_fpavf"
diff --git a/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx2.rst b/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx2.rst
index 49b45a04e8..53f09a52db 100644
--- a/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx2.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx2.rst
@@ -29,14 +29,6 @@ Prerequisites and Compilation procedure
 Pre-Installation Configuration
 ------------------------------
 
-Compile time Config Options
-~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
-
-The following option can be modified in the ``config`` file.
-
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_OCTEONTX2_MEMPOOL`` (default ``y``)
-
-  Toggle compilation of the ``librte_mempool_octeontx2`` driver.
 
 Runtime Config Options
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
@@ -97,4 +89,4 @@ Standalone mempool device
 
    Example command to run ``mempool_autotest`` test with standalone OCTEONTX2 NPA device::
 
-     echo "mempool_autotest" | build/app/test -c 0xf0 --mbuf-pool-ops-name="octeontx2_npa"
+     echo "mempool_autotest" | <build_dir>/app/test/dpdk-test -c 0xf0 --mbuf-pool-ops-name="octeontx2_npa"
-- 
2.17.1



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