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From: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thotton@caviumnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] doc: add doc to explain compiling and
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Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 12:37:26 +0530
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On Thu, Apr 06, 2017 at 08:30:21PM +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 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?

I can submit v2 with a subsection for running testpmd in FreeBSD.

> Should we refer to the Linux Getting Started Guide instead?

Agree that the new section just has steps from getting started guide. It may
seem redundant from a developer point of view, but hope it will be useful to
users.

Please share thoughts.

Thanks,
Shijith