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| author |   Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2016-09-29 18:18:37 +0000 |
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| committer |   Gerrit Code Review <gerrit@fd.io> | 2016-09-29 18:18:37 +0000 |
| commit | b6a44972963051e04cbdc00a7810c9d900be004e (patch) | |
| tree | 71673c1db653c444b5bfe482462fad554b6aeae0 /debian/dpdk-doc.README.Debian | |
| parent | f1196bae2634ee36dd5bbc2dcc6aad5238faa7e9 (diff) | |
| parent | fe79dd192a7d47562967c72d748eb9d872633f48 (diff) | |
Merge changes from topic 'fix-autoloader' into deb_dpdk_16.07
* changes:
changelog: add PMDs as recommend for dpdk runtime
add PMDs as recommend for dpdk runtime.
add empty RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH dir to librte_eal
changelog: utilize RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH
document pmd autoloading
utilize RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH
Diffstat (limited to 'debian/dpdk-doc.README.Debian')
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/dpdk-doc.README.Debian | 14 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/debian/dpdk-doc.README.Debian b/debian/dpdk-doc.README.Debian index 774a08cd..0e3866a9 100644 --- a/debian/dpdk-doc.README.Debian +++ b/debian/dpdk-doc.README.Debian @@ -49,4 +49,16 @@ against dpdk-dev that file will be adjusted for you. Alternatively /usr/include/dpdk/rte_config.h has to be pre-included: CFLAGS += -I/usr/include/dpdk -irte_config.h - -- Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> Thu, 04 Feb 2016 09:16:11 +0100 +librte-pmd-* and DPDK PMD autoloading: + +PMD driver autoloading. DPDK since its split into several libraries does not +have all PMD drivers available by default. One always can use EAL argument -d +to provide a path to an extra .so file. +TO ease daily usage RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH is set to +/usr/lib/$(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_MULTIARCH)/dpdk-pmds/. +Each librte-pmd-* package will place a symlink in there which makes DPDK load +and register it as PMD on startup. +This can also be used to globally enable extra PMD drivers as you can link +self-provided .so files in there to be considered. + + -- Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt@canonical.com> Thu, 29 Sep 2016 13:04:47 +0200 |