[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 20.11 05/19] doc: remove references to make in bbdev guides

Ciara Power ciara.power at intel.com
Fri Aug 7 14:29:55 CEST 2020


Make is no longer supported for compiling DPDK, references are now
removed in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power at intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/bbdevs/fpga_5gnr_fec.rst |  5 +----
 doc/guides/bbdevs/fpga_lte_fec.rst  |  5 +----
 doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst      | 15 ---------------
 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/bbdevs/fpga_5gnr_fec.rst b/doc/guides/bbdevs/fpga_5gnr_fec.rst
index 6760391e8c..76ac12cdc3 100644
--- a/doc/guides/bbdevs/fpga_5gnr_fec.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/bbdevs/fpga_5gnr_fec.rst
@@ -51,10 +51,7 @@ FPGA 5GNR FEC does not support the following:
 Installation
 ------------
 
-Section 3 of the DPDK manual provides instructions on installing and compiling DPDK. The
-default set of bbdev compile flags may be found in config/common_base, where for example
-the flag to build the FPGA 5GNR FEC device, ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_BBDEV_FPGA_5GNR_FEC``,
-is already set.
+Section 3 of the DPDK manual provides instructions on installing and compiling DPDK.
 
 DPDK requires hugepages to be configured as detailed in section 2 of the DPDK manual.
 The bbdev test application has been tested with a configuration 40 x 1GB hugepages. The
diff --git a/doc/guides/bbdevs/fpga_lte_fec.rst b/doc/guides/bbdevs/fpga_lte_fec.rst
index fdc8a76981..340ce4ff37 100644
--- a/doc/guides/bbdevs/fpga_lte_fec.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/bbdevs/fpga_lte_fec.rst
@@ -50,10 +50,7 @@ FPGA LTE FEC does not support the following:
 Installation
 --------------
 
-Section 3 of the DPDK manual provides instructions on installing and compiling DPDK. The
-default set of bbdev compile flags may be found in config/common_base, where for example
-the flag to build the FPGA LTE FEC device, ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_BBDEV_FPGA_LTE_FEC``, is already
-set.
+Section 3 of the DPDK manual provides instructions on installing and compiling DPDK.
 
 DPDK requires hugepages to be configured as detailed in section 2 of the DPDK manual.
 The bbdev test application has been tested with a configuration 40 x 1GB hugepages. The
diff --git a/doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst b/doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst
index 20620c2e20..3b93157890 100644
--- a/doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/bbdevs/turbo_sw.rst
@@ -12,14 +12,6 @@ Note that the driver can also be built without any dependency with reduced
 functionality for maintenance purpose.
 
 To enable linking to the SDK libraries see detailed installation section below.
-Two flags can be enabled depending on whether the target machine can support
-AVX2 and AVX512 instructions sets and the related SDK libraries for vectorized
-signal processing functions are installed :
-- CONFIG_RTE_BBDEV_SDK_AVX2
-- CONFIG_RTE_BBDEV_SDK_AVX512
-By default these 2 flags are disabled by default. For AVX2 machine and SDK
-library installed then the first flag can be enabled. For AVX512 machine and
-SDK library installed then both flags can be enabled for full real time capability.
 
 This PMD supports the functions: FEC, Rate Matching and CRC functions detailed
 in the Features section.
@@ -151,13 +143,6 @@ Example:
     export FLEXRAN_SDK=<path-to-workspace>/FlexRAN-FEC-SDK-19-04/sdk/build-avx2-icc/install
     export DIR_WIRELESS_SDK=<path-to-workspace>/FlexRAN-FEC-SDK-19-04/sdk/build-avx2-icc/
 
-* Set ``CONFIG_RTE_BBDEV_SDK_AVX2=y`` and ``CONFIG_RTE_BBDEV_SDK_AVX512=y``
-  in DPDK common configuration file ``config/common_base`` to be able to use
-  the SDK libraries as mentioned above.
-  For AVX2 machine it is possible to only enable CONFIG_RTE_BBDEV_SDK_AVX2
-  for limited 4G functionality.
-  If no flag are set the PMD driver will still build but its capabilities
-  will be limited accordingly.
 
 To use the PMD in an application, user must:
 
-- 
2.17.1



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