[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: update mlx5 guide

Shahaf Shuler shahafs at mellanox.com
Sun Oct 29 12:49:42 CET 2017


Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 18 +++++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index cdb880a4c..0aaf80f94 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ Features
 - Hardware checksum TX offload for VXLAN and GRE.
 - RX interrupts.
 - Statistics query including Basic, Extended and per queue.
+- Rx HW timestamp.
 
 Limitations
 -----------
@@ -129,6 +130,7 @@ Limitations
   is set to multi-packet send or Enhanced multi-packet send. Otherwise it must have
   less than 50 segments.
 - Count action for RTE flow is only supported in Mellanox OFED 4.2.
+- VXLAN TSO and checksum offloads are not supported on VM.
 
 Configuration
 -------------
@@ -353,8 +355,10 @@ releases.
 RMDA Core with Linux Kernel
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 
-- Minimal kernel version : 4.13-rc4 (see `Linux installation documentation`_)
-- Minimal rdma-core version: v15 (see `RDMA Core installation documentation`_)
+- Minimal kernel version : 4.14-rc6+ commit 25a5d23b4799 ("Merge tag 'kbuild-fixes-v4.14-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild")
+  (see `Linux installation documentation`_)
+- Minimal rdma-core version: v15+ commit f967fd5e38c7 ("Merge pull request #231 from rleon/topic/fix-cplusplus")
+  (see `RDMA Core installation documentation`_)
 
 .. _`Linux installation documentation`: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable.git/plain/Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst
 .. _`RDMA Core installation documentation`: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/master/README.md
@@ -365,10 +369,10 @@ Mellanox OFED
 - Mellanox OFED version: **4.2**.
 - firmware version:
 
-  - ConnectX-4: **12.20.1010** and above.
-  - ConnectX-4 Lx: **14.20.1010** and above.
-  - ConnectX-5: **16.20.1010** and above.
-  - ConnectX-5 Ex: **16.20.1010** and above.
+  - ConnectX-4: **12.21.1000** and above.
+  - ConnectX-4 Lx: **14.21.1000** and above.
+  - ConnectX-5: **16.21.1000** and above.
+  - ConnectX-5 Ex: **16.21.1000** and above.
 
 While these libraries and kernel modules are available on OpenFabrics
 Alliance's `website <https://www.openfabrics.org/>`__ and provided by package
@@ -421,7 +425,7 @@ Quick Start Guide on OFED
 
    .. code-block:: console
 
-        ./mlnxofedinstall
+        ./mlnxofedinstall --upstream-libs --dpdk
 
 3. Verify the firmware is the correct one:
 
-- 
2.12.0



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