Re: Unable to build igb_uio

[Oleksandr Nahnybida <oleksandrn@interfacemasters.com>]

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Hello David,

I  use Make, you can specify a path to the kernel you want to build for
with  make KSRC=/path/to/custom/kernel/source if needed
In the 23.11 release linux/kni folders were removed because kni was
deprecated.
https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk/commit/a52d472c5c948d2af8da6ae97f1d5593bcafa002

Best Regards,
Oleksandr

On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 6:04 PM David Aldrich <david.aldrich.ntml@gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi
> I am using DPDK 23.11.1. I need to build and install linux kernel
> module igb_uio.
>
> There are instructions here:
>
> https://doc.dpdk.org/dts/gsg/usr_guide/igb_uio.html
>
> that instruct to clone the dpdk-kmods repo:
>
> # git clone http://dpdk.org/git/dpdk-kmods
>
> and they state the contents should be:
>
> # cp -r ./dpdk-kmods/linux/igb_uio /root/dpdk/kernel/linux/
> # ls ./dpdk/kernel/linux/
> igb_uio  kni  meson.build
>
> the instruction is then to modify:
>
> meson.build
>
> but I don't have meson.build. I see:
>
> $ ls /opt/intel/dpdk-stable-23.11.1/kernel/linux/
> compat.h  igb_uio.c  Kbuild  Makefile
>
> which is quite different.
>
> Are there more up-to-date instructions, or do I need to compile with
> make directly rather than use meson?
>
> Best regards
> David
>

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