[dpdk-dev,v1] doc: add libnuma to the dpdk dependencies

Message ID 1499088064-7481-1-git-send-email-john.mcnamara@intel.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: Thomas Monjalon
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Commit Message

John McNamara July 3, 2017, 1:21 p.m. UTC
  Add libnuma as a dependency to the Linux Getting Started Guide
since it is a new requirement in DPDK 17.08+.

Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>
---
 doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
  

Comments

Thomas Monjalon July 9, 2017, 8:38 p.m. UTC | #1
03/07/2017 15:21, John McNamara:
> Add libnuma as a dependency to the Linux Getting Started Guide
> since it is a new requirement in DPDK 17.08+.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John McNamara <john.mcnamara@intel.com>

Applied, thanks
  

Patch

diff --git a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
index 3a28c9e..af7a931 100644
--- a/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/linux_gsg/sys_reqs.rst
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@  for more information on the required changes.
 Compilation of the DPDK
 -----------------------
 
-**Required Tools:**
+**Required Tools and Libraries:**
 
 .. note::
 
@@ -84,6 +84,8 @@  Compilation of the DPDK
        x86_x32 ABI is currently supported with distribution packages only on Ubuntu
        higher than 13.10 or recent Debian distribution. The only supported  compiler is gcc 4.9+.
 
+*   libnuma-devel - library for handling NUMA (Non Uniform Memory Access).
+
 *   Python, version 2.7+ or 3.2+, to use various helper scripts included in the DPDK package.