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diff --git a/src/plugins/dpdk/ipsec/dpdk_crypto_ipsec_doc.md b/src/plugins/dpdk/ipsec/dpdk_crypto_ipsec_doc.md index fed2fe0eee8..b3d3cc4853a 100644 --- a/src/plugins/dpdk/ipsec/dpdk_crypto_ipsec_doc.md +++ b/src/plugins/dpdk/ipsec/dpdk_crypto_ipsec_doc.md @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ A couple of ways to achive this: * uncomment/add it in the platforms config (ie. build-data/platforms/vpp.mk) * set the option when building vpp (ie. make vpp_uses_dpdk_cryptodev_sw=yes build-release) -When enabling SW Cryptodev support, it means that you need to pre-build the required crypto libraries needed by those SW Cryptodev PMDs. +When enabling SW Cryptodev support, it means that you need to pre-build the required crypto libraries needed by those SW Cryptodev PMDs. This requires nasm, see nasm section below. ### Crypto Resources allocation @@ -84,3 +84,22 @@ For further details refer to [DPDK Crypto Device Driver documentation](http://dp The following CLI command displays the Cryptodev/Worker mapping: show crypto device mapping [verbose] + + +### nasm + +Building the DPDK Crypto Libraries requires the open source project nasm (The Netwide +Assembler) to be installed. Recommended version of nasm is 2.12.02. Minimum supported +version of nasm is 2.11.06. Use the following command to determine the current nasm version: + + nasm -v + +CentOS 7.3 and earlier and Fedora 21 and earlier use unsupported versions +of nasm. Use the following set of commands to build a supported version: + + wget http://www.nasm.us/pub/nasm/releasebuilds/2.12.02/nasm-2.12.02.tar.bz2 + tar -xjvf nasm-2.12.02.tar.bz2 + cd nasm-2.12.02/ + ./configure + make + sudo make install |