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.. SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause
Copyright(c) 2017 Cavium, Inc
OCTEON TX Board Support Package
===============================
This doc has information about steps to setup OCTEON TX platform
and information about common offload hw block drivers of
**Cavium OCTEON TX** SoC family.
More information about SoC can be found at `Cavium, Inc Official Website
<http://www.cavium.com/OCTEON-TX_ARM_Processors.html>`_.
Common Offload HW Block Drivers
-------------------------------
1. **Eventdev Driver**
See :doc:`../eventdevs/octeontx` for octeontx ssovf eventdev driver
information.
2. **Mempool Driver**
See :doc:`../mempool/octeontx` for octeontx fpavf mempool driver
information.
Steps To Setup Platform
-----------------------
There are three main pre-prerequisites for setting up Platform drivers on
OCTEON TX compatible board:
1. **OCTEON TX Linux kernel PF driver for Network acceleration HW blocks**
The OCTEON TX Linux kernel drivers (includes the required PF driver for the
Platform drivers) are available on Github at `octeontx-kmod <https://github.com/caviumnetworks/octeontx-kmod>`_
along with build, install and dpdk usage instructions.
2. **ARM64 Tool Chain**
For example, the *aarch64* Linaro Toolchain, which can be obtained from
`here <https://releases.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/4.9-2017.01/aarch64-linux-gnu>`_.
3. **Rootfile system**
Any *aarch64* supporting filesystem can be used. For example,
Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily) or 16.04 LTS (Xenial) userland which can be obtained
from `<http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-base/releases/16.04/release/ubuntu-base-16.04.1-base-arm64.tar.gz>`_.
As an alternative method, Platform drivers can also be executed using images provided
as part of SDK from Cavium. The SDK includes all the above prerequisites necessary
to bring up a OCTEON TX board.
SDK and related information can be obtained from: `Cavium support site <https://support.cavium.com/>`_.
- Follow the DPDK :doc:`../linux_gsg/index` to setup the basic DPDK environment.
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