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| author |   Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2016-11-14 13:47:48 +0000 |
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| committer | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2016-12-01 16:26:32 +0000 |
| commit | cc12fec853249def38597cccdd45a94e2791fd2d (patch) | |
| tree | 7f9b761016715eeaa2a5b2c4c84d04934a182bdd /debian/dpdk-doc.README.Debian | |
| parent | f3cd9198e946412718d27fab766fdbd5a9a75d03 (diff) | |
| parent | 893ab58d98e090c1631f4e2dd43069eeb58e78dc (diff) | |
Merge branch 'deb_dpdk_16.07' into sid
Signed-off-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
Conflicts:
debian/changelog
Change-Id: Icd31f097dffeee5de706a883bd7f6558096b25c6
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 |