[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v7 02/14] doc: remove references to make from mempool guide

Ciara Power ciara.power at intel.com
Wed Oct 21 10:17:12 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>
Reviewed-by: Kevin Laatz <kevin.laatz at intel.com>

---
v7: Added back in config option that is available in meson config file.
---
 doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst  | 16 +++-------------
 doc/guides/mempool/octeontx2.rst | 10 +---------
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst b/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst
index dfa1993e19..15737ad7bf 100644
--- a/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/mempool/octeontx.rst
@@ -36,27 +36,17 @@ Pre-Installation Configuration
 Config File Options
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-The following options can be modified in the ``config`` file.
+The following option can be modified in the ``config/rte_config.h`` 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 +60,5 @@ 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"
-- 
2.22.0



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