[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v5] doc: update bnxt guide

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 5/21/2020 2:16 AM, Ajit Khaparde wrote:
> On Wed, May 20, 2020 at 1:04 PM Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com>
> wrote:
> 
>>     - Update list of supported adapters.
>>     - Update list of supported features.
>>     - Add some details to describe the features.
>>     - Remove obsolete limitations.
>>     - Fix and update links.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: JP Lee <jongpil.lee at broadcom.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde at broadcom.com>
>> Acked-by: Kovacevic Marko <marko.kovacevic at intel.com>
>> ---
>> v1->v2: Some lines were too long in v1. Made then shorter. Checked for
>> typos.
>> v2->v3: Removed list of extended stats.
>> v3->v4: Removed an irrelevant line.
>> v4->v5: Shorten the long lines further.
>>
> 
> Applied to dpdk-next-net-brcm. Thanks

Fixed build warnings [1] as following [2] while merging, please double check the
changes.

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diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/bnxt.rst b/doc/guides/nics/bnxt.rst
index a0747d7e33..ed650187e0 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/bnxt.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/bnxt.rst
@@ -124,9 +124,9 @@ Refer to https://doc.dpdk.org/guides/howto/flow_bifurcation.html
 Benefits of the flow bifurcation include:

 * Better performance with less CPU overhead, as user application can directly
-access the NIC for data path
+  access the NIC for data path
 * NIC is still being controlled by the kernel, as control traffic is forwarded
-only to the kernel driver
+  only to the kernel driver
 * Control commands, e.g. ethtool, will work as usual

 Running on a VF, the BXNT PMD supports the flow bifurcation with a combination
@@ -255,23 +255,23 @@ The BNXT PMD supports hardware-based packet filtering:

 * UC (Unicast) MAC Filters
     * No unicast packets are forwarded to an application except the one with
-    DMAC address added to the port
+      DMAC address added to the port
     * At initialization, the station MAC address is added to the port
 * MC (Multicast) MAC Filters
     * No multicast packets are forwarded to an application except the one with
-    MC address added to the port
+      MC address added to the port
     * When the application listens to a multicast group, it adds the MC address
-    to the port
+      to the port
 * VLAN Filtering Mode
     * When enabled, no packets are forwarded to an application except the ones
-    with the VLAN tag assigned to the port
+      with the VLAN tag assigned to the port
 * Allmulticast Mode
     * When enabled, every multicast packet received on the port is forwarded to
-    the application
+      the application
     * Typical usage is routing applications
 * Promiscuous Mode
     * When enabled, every packet received on the port is forwarded to the
-    application
+      application

 Unicast MAC Filter
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^