[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: ZUC PMD cannot be built as a shared library

Pablo de Lara pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com
Thu Oct 13 21:35:03 CEST 2016


ZUC PMD cannot be built as a shared library, due to
the fact that some assembly code in the underlying libsso
library is not relocatable.
This will be fixed in the future, but for the moment,
it is added as a limitation of the PMD.

Signed-off-by: Pablo de Lara <pablo.de.lara.guarch at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/cryptodevs/zuc.rst | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/zuc.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/zuc.rst
index 7267120..38d5068 100644
--- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/zuc.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/zuc.rst
@@ -53,6 +53,9 @@ Limitations
 * Chained mbufs are not supported.
 * ZUC (EIA3) supported only if hash offset field is byte-aligned.
 * ZUC (EEA3) supported only if cipher length, cipher offset fields are byte-aligned.
+* ZUC PMD cannot be built as a shared library, due to limitations in
+  in the underlying library.
+
 
 Installation
 ------------
-- 
2.7.4



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