[PATCH v3] doc: update QAT cryptodev guide to run on aarch64

Dharmik Thakkar dharmikjayesh.thakkar at arm.com
Wed Aug 9 17:38:14 CEST 2023


Update guide with instructions to run on Aarch64 based Ampere Altra
platform

Signed-off-by: Dharmik Thakkar <dharmikjayesh.thakkar at arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Ruifeng Wang <ruifeng.wang at arm.com>
---
v3:
 - Fix duplicate target warning by using anonymous reference
v2:
 - Update driver guide with instructions to run on aarch64 instead
 ---
 .mailmap                      | 2 +-
 doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index 864d33ee46fb..bb79fd4673ef 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -319,7 +319,7 @@ Devendra Singh Rawat <dsinghrawat at marvell.com>
 Dex Chen <dex.chen at ruckuswireless.com>
 Dexia Li <dexia.li at jaguarmicro.com>
 Dexuan Cui <decui at microsoft.com>
-Dharmik Thakkar <dharmik.thakkar at arm.com>
+Dharmik Thakkar <dharmikjayesh.thakkar at arm.com>
 Dheemanth Mallikarjun <dheemanthm at vmware.com>
 Diana Wang <na.wang at corigine.com>
 Didier Pallard <didier.pallard at 6wind.com>
diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst
index afdfb0bd226b..9557b49be308 100644
--- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst
@@ -384,6 +384,12 @@ The "rte_cryptodev_devices_get()" returns the devices exposed by either of these
   <pci bdf>_<service>, e.g. "0000:41:01.0_qat_comp".
   This name can be passed to rte_compressdev_get_dev_id() to get the device_id.
 
+
+Running QAT on Aarch64 based Ampere Altra platform
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+Requires Linux kernel v6.0+. See also `this patch description <https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/6/17/328>`__.
+
 .. _qat_kernel:
 
 Dependency on the QAT kernel driver
-- 
2.25.1



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