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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc/guides: add info on how to enable QAT
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2016 15:46:17 +0200
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2016-08-30 14:26, Eoin Breen:
> --- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst
> +++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/qat.rst
> @@ -78,6 +78,11 @@ Installation
>  To use the DPDK QAT PMD an SRIOV-enabled QAT kernel driver is required. The
>  VF devices exposed by this driver will be used by QAT PMD.
>  
> +To enable QAT in DPDK you must change the ./config/common_base file. Change the
> +line 'CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_QAT=n' to 'CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_PMD_QAT=y' to do this.

No, the recommended way is to change the value in the generated config
file (.config).

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