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From: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Cc: rasland@mellanox.com, thomas@monjalon.net
Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] doc: fix the release notes for Mellanox PMD
Date: Thu,  6 Aug 2020 15:49:09 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1596728949-8869-1-git-send-email-viacheslavo@mellanox.com> (raw)

The mlx5 PMD might not work on Power 9 platform with OFED
version 5.1-0.6.6.0 (latest GA release at the moment).
Release notes know issues chapter is updated accordingly,
workaround is proposed.

Fixes: 544f35c334e5 ("doc: add tested platforms with Mellanox NICs")

Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
---
 doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
index 9761f5a..147a380 100644
--- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
+++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_20_08.rst
@@ -331,6 +331,11 @@ Known Issues
    Also, make sure to start the actual text at the margin.
    =========================================================
 
+   * **mlx5 PMD might not work on Power 9 with OFED 5.1-0.6.6.0.**
+
+     Consider using the newer OFED releases, the previous
+     OFED 5.0-2.1.8.0, or upstream rdma-core library v29 and above.
+
 
 Tested Platforms
 ----------------
@@ -489,4 +494,4 @@ Tested Platforms
 
   * OFED:
 
-    * MLNX_OFED 5.1-0.6.6.0
+    * MLNX_OFED 5.0-2.1.8.0
-- 
1.8.3.1


             reply	other threads:[~2020-08-06 15:49 UTC|newest]

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2020-08-06 15:49 Viacheslav Ovsiienko [this message]
2020-08-06 15:53 ` Thomas Monjalon

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