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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] doc: add doc to explain compiling and
	testing of PMD
Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2017 20:30:21 +0200
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2017-04-06 13:21, Shijith Thotton:
> Add a section in NIC drivers documentation to explain compiling and
> testing of a PMD. It also mentions about host setup, which is required
> before running testpmd.
> 
> Add label "testpmd_ug" to refer user guide.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thotton@caviumnetworks.com>

It is really good to factorize documentation.

This doc is about testpmd in Linux
and does not refer to FreeBSD.
Do we assume to take Linux as the reference?
Should we refer to the Linux Getting Started Guide instead?