From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shijith Thotton Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] doc: add doc to explain compiling and testing of PMD Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 15:40:31 +0530 Message-ID: <20170407101030.GA7157@localhost.localdomain> References: <1491059040-20647-1-git-send-email-shijith.thotton@caviumnetworks.com> <1491465117-11252-1-git-send-email-shijith.thotton@caviumnetworks.com> <1491465117-11252-2-git-send-email-shijith.thotton@caviumnetworks.com> <1840157.q6em4QXK2Z@xps13> <20170407070724.GA5581@localhost.localdomain> <20170407094224.GA4051@jerin> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Thomas Monjalon , John Mcnamara , dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit To: Jerin Jacob Return-path: Received: from NAM01-BY2-obe.outbound.protection.outlook.com (mail-by2nam01on0075.outbound.protection.outlook.com [104.47.34.75]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00D2F2FDD for ; Fri, 7 Apr 2017 12:10:50 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20170407094224.GA4051@jerin> List-Id: DPDK patches and discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" On Fri, Apr 07, 2017 at 03:12:25PM +0530, Jerin Jacob wrote: > -----Original Message----- > > Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2017 12:37:26 +0530 > > From: Shijith Thotton > > To: Thomas Monjalon > > CC: John Mcnamara , dev@dpdk.org, Ferruh Yigit > > > > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/8] doc: add doc to explain compiling and > > testing of PMD > > User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) > > > > 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 > > > > > > 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. > > 1) Some reason thunderx PMD is not added in refactoring. I guess its due > to x86 and arm64 name space collision in the common document, if so we need > to find a way to fix it and thunderx PMD. > Made text more generic for all platforms and gave two examples. To compile a PMD for a platform, run make with proper target from config folder. Use “make” command in Linux and “gmake” in FreeBSD OS. It will also build testpmd. To compile a PMD for Linux x86_64 gcc target, run the following “make” command: cd make install T=x86_64-native-linuxapp-gcc To compile the ThunderX NICVF PMD for Linux arm64 gcc target, run the following “make” command: cd make config T=arm64-thunderx-linuxapp-gcc install > 2)I guess, It is better to keep all the startup logs in respective PMD.I > think, it will help in debugging in case there are any issues. > +1