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From: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@cavium.com>
To: <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@cavium.com>,
	<Dept-EngDPDKDev@cavium.com>, <stable@dpdk.org>
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/bnx2x: update document for PMD usage
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 16:51:52 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1493769112-17168-1-git-send-email-rasesh.mody@cavium.com> (raw)

Correct CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_BNX2X_PMD config file option and add a note
about external zlib dependency for loading the firmware image.

Signed-off-by: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@cavium.com>
---
 doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.rst |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.rst b/doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.rst
index a3a0665..c5b5216 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/bnx2x.rst
@@ -96,9 +96,11 @@ Config File Options
 The following options can be modified in the ``.config`` file. Please note that
 enabling debugging options may affect system performance.
 
-- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_BNX2X_PMD`` (default **y**)
+- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_BNX2X_PMD`` (default **n**)
 
-  Toggle compilation of bnx2x driver.
+  Toggle compilation of bnx2x driver. To use bnx2x PMD set this config parameter
+  to 'y'. Also, in order for firmware binary to load user will need zlib devel
+  package installed. 
 
 - ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_BNX2X_DEBUG`` (default **n**)
 
-- 
1.7.10.3

             reply	other threads:[~2017-05-02 23:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-02 23:51 Rasesh Mody [this message]
2017-05-02 23:57 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Rasesh Mody
2017-05-07 12:45   ` Thomas Monjalon

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