From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>,
Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>,
Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>,
Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>, Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>,
Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: remove Mellanox acquisition explanation
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2025 12:15:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250716101516.224980-1-thomas@monjalon.net> (raw)
Time has passed since Mellanox acquisition by NVIDIA.
No need to explain this anymore.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
---
doc/guides/compressdevs/mlx5.rst | 7 -------
doc/guides/cryptodevs/mlx5.rst | 7 -------
doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst | 7 -------
doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 6 ------
doc/guides/platform/bluefield.rst | 7 -------
doc/guides/platform/mlx5.rst | 7 -------
doc/guides/regexdevs/mlx5.rst | 7 -------
doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst | 7 -------
8 files changed, 55 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/guides/compressdevs/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/compressdevs/mlx5.rst
index 751fae7184..b64818444a 100644
--- a/doc/guides/compressdevs/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/compressdevs/mlx5.rst
@@ -6,13 +6,6 @@
NVIDIA MLX5 Compress Driver
===========================
-.. note::
-
- NVIDIA acquired Mellanox Technologies in 2020.
- The DPDK documentation and code might still include instances
- of or references to Mellanox trademarks (like BlueField and ConnectX)
- that are now NVIDIA trademarks.
-
The mlx5 compress driver library
(**librte_compress_mlx5**) provides support for **NVIDIA BlueField-2**,
and **NVIDIA BlueField-3** families of 25/50/100/200/400 Gb/s adapters.
diff --git a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/mlx5.rst
index f8b43823a7..8a2ec20e74 100644
--- a/doc/guides/cryptodevs/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/cryptodevs/mlx5.rst
@@ -6,13 +6,6 @@
NVIDIA MLX5 Crypto Driver
=========================
-.. note::
-
- NVIDIA acquired Mellanox Technologies in 2020.
- The DPDK documentation and code might still include instances
- of or references to Mellanox trademarks (like BlueField and ConnectX)
- that are now NVIDIA trademarks.
-
The MLX5 crypto driver library
(**librte_crypto_mlx5**) provides support for **NVIDIA ConnectX-6**,
**NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dx**, **NVIDIA ConnectX-7**, **NVIDIA ConnectX-8**,
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst
index d79d5b1661..e92fcc155c 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx4.rst
@@ -5,13 +5,6 @@
NVIDIA MLX4 Ethernet Driver
===========================
-.. note::
-
- NVIDIA acquired Mellanox Technologies in 2020.
- The DPDK documentation and code might still include instances
- of or references to Mellanox trademarks (like BlueField and ConnectX)
- that are now NVIDIA trademarks.
-
The MLX4 poll mode driver library (**librte_net_mlx4**) implements support
for **NVIDIA ConnectX-3** and **NVIDIA ConnectX-3 Pro** 10/40 Gbps adapters
as well as their virtual functions (VF) in SR-IOV context.
diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
index c3a350d24e..5c825dd6b0 100644
--- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst
@@ -7,12 +7,6 @@
NVIDIA MLX5 Ethernet Driver
===========================
-.. note::
-
- NVIDIA acquired Mellanox Technologies in 2020.
- The DPDK documentation and code might still include instances
- of or references to Mellanox trademarks (like BlueField and ConnectX)
- that are now NVIDIA trademarks.
The mlx5 Ethernet poll mode driver library (**librte_net_mlx5**) provides support
for **NVIDIA ConnectX-4**, **NVIDIA ConnectX-4 Lx** , **NVIDIA ConnectX-5**,
diff --git a/doc/guides/platform/bluefield.rst b/doc/guides/platform/bluefield.rst
index a568cdca4c..67a70b1313 100644
--- a/doc/guides/platform/bluefield.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/platform/bluefield.rst
@@ -4,13 +4,6 @@
NVIDIA BlueField Board Support Package
======================================
-.. note::
-
- NVIDIA acquired Mellanox Technologies in 2020.
- The DPDK documentation and code might still include instances
- of or references to Mellanox trademarks (like BlueField and ConnectX)
- that are now NVIDIA trademarks.
-
This document has information about steps to setup NVIDIA BlueField platform
and common offload HW drivers of **NVIDIA BlueField** family SoC.
diff --git a/doc/guides/platform/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/platform/mlx5.rst
index ab3107209a..8742f84972 100644
--- a/doc/guides/platform/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/platform/mlx5.rst
@@ -7,13 +7,6 @@
NVIDIA MLX5 Common Driver
=========================
-.. note::
-
- NVIDIA acquired Mellanox Technologies in 2020.
- The DPDK documentation and code might still include instances
- of or references to Mellanox trademarks (like BlueField and ConnectX)
- that are now NVIDIA trademarks.
-
The mlx5 common driver library (**librte_common_mlx5**) provides support for
**NVIDIA ConnectX-4**, **NVIDIA ConnectX-4 Lx**, **NVIDIA ConnectX-5**,
**NVIDIA ConnectX-6**, **NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dx**, **NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Lx**,
diff --git a/doc/guides/regexdevs/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/regexdevs/mlx5.rst
index 174b848158..814228c5e3 100644
--- a/doc/guides/regexdevs/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/regexdevs/mlx5.rst
@@ -6,13 +6,6 @@
NVIDIA MLX5 RegEx Driver
========================
-.. note::
-
- NVIDIA acquired Mellanox Technologies in 2020.
- The DPDK documentation and code might still include instances
- of or references to Mellanox trademarks (like BlueField and ConnectX)
- that are now NVIDIA trademarks.
-
The mlx5 RegEx (Regular Expression) driver library
(**librte_regex_mlx5**) provides support for **NVIDIA BlueField-2**,
and **NVIDIA BlueField-3** families of 25/50/100/200 Gb/s adapters.
diff --git a/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
index f6c3068a21..e7d37aa4ea 100644
--- a/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/vdpadevs/mlx5.rst
@@ -6,13 +6,6 @@
NVIDIA MLX5 vDPA Driver
=======================
-.. note::
-
- NVIDIA acquired Mellanox Technologies in 2020.
- The DPDK documentation and code might still include instances
- of or references to Mellanox trademarks (like BlueField and ConnectX)
- that are now NVIDIA trademarks.
-
The mlx5 vDPA (vhost data path acceleration) driver library
(**librte_vdpa_mlx5**) provides support for **NVIDIA ConnectX-6**,
**NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Dx**, **NVIDIA ConnectX-6 Lx**, **NVIDIA ConnectX7**,
--
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2025-07-16 10:15 Thomas Monjalon [this message]
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2025-07-16 15:56 ` Thomas Monjalon
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