[spp] [PATCH v2 11/11] docs: add install drivers for Mellanox NIC

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Fri Mar 27 05:57:32 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 | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/guides/gsg/setup.rst b/docs/guides/gsg/setup.rst
index 9bd30ef..6c962c3 100644
--- a/docs/guides/gsg/setup.rst
+++ b/docs/guides/gsg/setup.rst
@@ -285,6 +285,19 @@ Python 2 or 3 ?
 Without SPP container tools, Python2 is not supported anymore.
 SPP container will also be updated to Python3.
 
+Driver 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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