[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/8] doc: add doc to explain compiling and testing of PMD

[Thomas Monjalon]

2017-04-07 09:23, Mcnamara, John:
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shijith Thotton [mailto:shijith.thotton at caviumnetworks.com]
> > Sent: Friday, April 7, 2017 8:07 AM
> > To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com>
> > Cc: Mcnamara, John <john.mcnamara at intel.com>; dev at dpdk.org; Yigit, Ferruh
> > <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
> > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/8] doc: add doc to explain compiling and
> > testing of PMD
> > 
> > On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 08:30:21PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > > 2017-04-06 13:21, Shijith Thotton:
> > > > Add a section in NIC drivers documentation to explain compiling and
> > > > testing of a PMD. It also mentions about host setup, which is
> > > > required before running testpmd.
> > > >
> > > > Add label "testpmd_ug" to refer user guide.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thotton at caviumnetworks.com>
> > >
> > > It is really good to factorize documentation.
> > >
> > > This doc is about testpmd in Linux
> > > and does not refer to FreeBSD.
> > > Do we assume to take Linux as the reference?
> > 
> > I can submit v2 with a subsection for running testpmd in FreeBSD.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > I can submit v2 with a subsection for running testpmd in FreeBSD.
> 
> I don't think that is necessary. You patch already calls out the
> Linux and FreeBSD Getting Started Guides. I think that is enough.
> 
> 
> @tmonjalo
> For me this new "Compiling and testing a PMD for a NIC" section
> is a way of avoiding duplicate sections in the NIC guides. I don't
> think it has to be a definitive guide to TestPMD.
> 
> As and aside, I would like to do something similar with the sample
> app guides, i.e., have one section on compilation that the other
> app guides can refer to. I'll try to add that in the next release.
> 
> So for me this patchset is okay as it is.

OK
I just wanted to start discussing about more factorization.
Thanks for leading this work, John.