[spp] [PATCH 11/11] docs: add install drivers for Mellanox NIC
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Wed Feb 26 12:43:35 CET 2020
From: Hideyuki Yamashita <yamashita.hideyuki at ntt-tx.co.jp>
This patch is to add description of installing drivers of Mellanox NIC.
Signed-off-by: Hideyuki Yamashita <yamashita.hideyuki at ntt-tx.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Naoki Takada <ntakada14 at gmail.com>
---
docs/guides/gsg/setup.rst | 12 ++++++++++++
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+)
diff --git a/docs/guides/gsg/setup.rst b/docs/guides/gsg/setup.rst
index 9bd30ef..4769e13 100644
--- a/docs/guides/gsg/setup.rst
+++ b/docs/guides/gsg/setup.rst
@@ -285,6 +285,18 @@ Python 2 or 3 ?
Without SPP container tools, Python2 is not supported anymore.
SPP container will also be updated to Python3.
+Drivers for Mellanox NIC
+------------------------
+
+In case of using MLX5 NIC, you have to install Driver.
+You can download driver from Mellanox's `SW/Drivers
+<https://www.mellanox.com/page/mlnx_ofed_matrix?mtag=linux_sw_drivers>`.
+The following example assumes that MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.7-1.0.0.1-ubuntu18.04-x86_64.tgz is downloaded.
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+ $cd MLNX_OFED_LINUX-4.7-1.0.0.1-ubuntu18.04-x86_64/
+ $sudo ./mlnxofedinstall --upstream-libs --dpdk --force
Reference
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2.17.1
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