[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 20.11 11/19] doc: remove references to make in howto guides

Ciara Power ciara.power at intel.com
Fri Aug 7 14:30:01 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/howto/packet_capture_framework.rst | 17 +-----------
 doc/guides/howto/pvp_reference_benchmark.rst  | 26 -------------------
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 42 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/howto/packet_capture_framework.rst b/doc/guides/howto/packet_capture_framework.rst
index 946a21c8ed..f86cff810b 100644
--- a/doc/guides/howto/packet_capture_framework.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/howto/packet_capture_framework.rst
@@ -52,11 +52,7 @@ Some things to note:
   initialization code. Refer to the ``app/test-pmd/testpmd.c`` code and look
   for ``pdump`` keyword to see how this is done.
 
-* The ``dpdk-pdump`` tool depends on the libpcap based PMD which is disabled
-  by default in the build configuration files, owing to an external dependency
-  on the libpcap development files. Once the libpcap development files are
-  installed, the libpcap based PMD can be enabled by setting
-  ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_PCAP=y`` and recompiling the DPDK.
+* The ``dpdk-pdump`` tool depends on the libpcap based PMD.
 
 
 Test Environment
@@ -73,17 +69,6 @@ for packet capturing on the DPDK port in
    Packet capturing on a DPDK port using the dpdk-pdump tool.
 
 
-Configuration
--------------
-
-Modify the DPDK primary application to initialize the packet capture framework
-as mentioned in the above notes and enable the following config options and
-build DPDK::
-
-     CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_PCAP=y
-     CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PDUMP=y
-
-
 Running the Application
 -----------------------
 
diff --git a/doc/guides/howto/pvp_reference_benchmark.rst b/doc/guides/howto/pvp_reference_benchmark.rst
index 64b1f4d8ec..371ba84e38 100644
--- a/doc/guides/howto/pvp_reference_benchmark.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/howto/pvp_reference_benchmark.rst
@@ -96,19 +96,6 @@ Build Qemu:
        make
 
 
-DPDK build
-~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Build DPDK:
-
-   .. code-block:: console
-
-      git clone git://dpdk.org/dpdk
-      cd dpdk
-      export RTE_SDK=$PWD
-      make install T=x86_64-native-linux-gcc DESTDIR=install
-
-
 Testpmd launch
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
@@ -310,19 +297,6 @@ Guest tuning
       done
 
 
-DPDK build
-~~~~~~~~~~
-
-Build DPDK:
-
-   .. code-block:: console
-
-      git clone git://dpdk.org/dpdk
-      cd dpdk
-      export RTE_SDK=$PWD
-      make install T=x86_64-native-linux-gcc DESTDIR=install
-
-
 Testpmd launch
 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
 
-- 
2.17.1



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