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From: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
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Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] doc: fix the release notes for Mellanox PMD
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The mlx5 PMD does 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>
---
v1->v2: indent fix
"might not/does not" fix
---
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..3b29aef 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 does 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
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