[dpdk-stable] patch 'doc: explain zlib dependency for bnx2x' has been queued to stable release 17.02.1

Yuanhan Liu yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com
Thu May 25 11:50:04 CEST 2017


Hi,

FYI, your patch has been queued to stable release 17.02.1

Note it hasn't been pushed to http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk-stable yet.
It will be pushed if I get no objections before 05/28/17. So please
shout if anyone has objections.

Thanks.

	--yliu

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>From 388e611f77eb92e1eeb6b0e9b45263e3cea47ba0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody at cavium.com>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 16:57:49 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] doc: explain zlib dependency for bnx2x

[ upstream commit 6d4e18669575ad0d036b2b7a16a15b122b482b0a ]

Correct CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_BNX2X_PMD config file option and add a note
about external zlib dependency for loading the firmware image.

Fixes: ce9b8bb8b998 ("config: disable bnx2x driver")

Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody at cavium.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.rst | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.rst b/doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.rst
index c011df1..8d9e059 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.rst
@@ -96,9 +96,11 @@ Config File Options
 The following options can be modified in the ``.config`` file. Please note that
 enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
 
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_BNX2X_PMD`` (default **y**)
+- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_BNX2X_PMD`` (default **n**)
 
-  Toggle compilation of bnx2x driver.
+  Toggle compilation of bnx2x driver. To use bnx2x PMD set this config parameter
+  to 'y'. Also, in order for firmware binary to load user will need zlib devel
+  package installed.
 
 - ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_BNX2X_DEBUG`` (default **n**)
 
-- 
1.9.0



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