[PATCH v2] doc: updated libcrypto dependencies in QAT guide

Samina Arshad samina.arshad at intel.com
Tue May 16 15:20:06 CEST 2023


 The documentation needs extra steps for customers to explicitly
 show how to install libcrypto, which is needed for QAT.
 It requires the commands to install libcrypto for
 Ubuntu and RHEL.

Signed-off-by: Samina Arshad <samina.arshad at intel.com>
---
 .mailmap                      |  1 +
 doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst | 14 ++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.mailmap b/.mailmap
index 0443e461a9..6a0c1924eb 100644
--- a/.mailmap
+++ b/.mailmap
@@ -1179,6 +1179,7 @@ Salem Sol <salems at nvidia.com>
 Sameh Gobriel <sameh.gobriel at intel.com>
 Sam Grove <sam.grove at sifive.com>
 Samik Gupta <samik.gupta at broadcom.com>
+Samina Arshad <samina.arshad at intel.com>
 Samuel Gauthier <samuel.gauthier at 6wind.com>
 Sangjin Han <sangjin at eecs.berkeley.edu>
 Sankar Chokkalingam <sankarx.chokkalingam at intel.com>
diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst
index ef754106a8..a3694f7131 100644
--- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst
@@ -234,6 +234,20 @@ These are the build configuration options affecting QAT, and their default value
 Both QAT SYM PMD and QAT ASYM PMD have an external dependency on libcrypto, so are not
 built by default.
 
+Ubuntu
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  apt install libssl-dev
+
+
+RHEL
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+  dnf install openssl-devel
+
+
 The QAT compressdev PMD has no external dependencies, so is built by default.
 
 The number of VFs per PF varies - see table below. If multiple QAT packages are
-- 
2.25.1



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