Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v6 04/14] doc: remove references to make from vdpadevs guides

[Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>]

09/10/2020 12:21, Ciara Power:
> Make is no longer supported for compiling DPDK, references are now
> removed in the documentation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ciara Power <ciara.power@intel.com>
> ---
>  Compilation options
>  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>  
> -These options can be modified in the ``.config`` file.
> -
> -- ``CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_MLX5_VDPA_PMD`` (default **n**)
> -
> -  Toggle compilation of librte_pmd_mlx5 itself.
> -
> -- ``CONFIG_RTE_IBVERBS_LINK_DLOPEN`` (default **n**)
> -
> -  Build PMD with additional code to make it loadable without hard
> -  dependencies on **libibverbs** nor **libmlx5**, which may not be installed
> -  on the target system.
> -
> -  In this mode, their presence is still required for it to run properly,
> -  however their absence won't prevent a DPDK application from starting (with
> -  ``CONFIG_RTE_BUILD_SHARED_LIB`` disabled) and they won't show up as
> -  missing with ``ldd(1)``.
> -
> -  It works by moving these dependencies to a purpose-built rdma-core "glue"
> -  plug-in which must either be installed in a directory whose name is based
> -  on ``CONFIG_RTE_EAL_PMD_PATH`` suffixed with ``-glue`` if set, or in a
> -  standard location for the dynamic linker (e.g. ``/lib``) if left to the
> -  default empty string (``""``).
> -
> -  This option has no performance impact.
> -
> -- ``CONFIG_RTE_IBVERBS_LINK_STATIC`` (default **n**)
> -
> -  Embed static flavor of the dependencies **libibverbs** and **libmlx5**
> -  in the PMD shared library or the executable static binary.

It is completely removing some information
which could be kept if mentioning the meson option "ibverbs_link".